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Written Question
Accident and Emergency Departments
Wednesday 26th November 2014

Asked by: Roberta Blackman-Woods (Labour - City of Durham)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to reduce the number of patients attending A&E departments.

Answered by Jane Ellison

We are providing an additional £700 million to help the National Health Service cope with winter pressures.

Further, the Prime Minister’s £50 million Challenge Fund is currently improving general practitioner access for over 3 million patients across England. This includes offering evening and weekend appointments, as well as better use of technology. By January, 7.5 million patients will be covered.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 23 Oct 2014
Oral Hormone Pregnancy Tests

"I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Bolton South East (Yasmin Qureshi) on securing this important debate and thank the Backbench Business Committee for granting it. I would like to thank, too, my hon. Friends for setting up the all-party group, which has been so helpful in supporting campaigners …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 13 Oct 2014
Ebola

"I am one of a group of parliamentarians who returned from a visit to west Africa on Friday. We were quite surprised to be asked no questions about where we had travelled, and to be offered no screening at either the EU or UK border; I came back to Newcastle …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 13 May 2013
Health and Social Care

"Does my hon. Friend agree with the National Young Carers Coalition, which has written to all Members pointing out that the Bill does not do enough for young carers and needs to be amended so that there is a greater responsibility for identifying young carers? Does she agree that the …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 13 May 2013
Health and Social Care

"My hon. Friend the Member for Sheffield Central (Paul Blomfield) made a powerful case against the influence of the tobacco companies and their lobbying of this Government, and the utter ineffectiveness of the Prime Minister in standing up to them. I am also pleased to follow the hon. Member for …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Fri 07 Sep 2012
Social Care (Local Sufficiency) and Identification of Carers Bill

"I, too, do a lot of work with a carers’ support group in my constituency, Durham and Chester-le-Street Carers Support. Does my hon. Friend agree that such organisations would be greatly assisted by the measures set out in the Bill, because they would help them develop the range of support …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Fri 07 Sep 2012
Social Care (Local Sufficiency) and Identification of Carers Bill

"In the case that my hon. Friend describes, it is good that the school managed to identify that there was a problem, but that does not always happen. What is so important about the Bill is that schools, colleges and universities will now have to proactively go out there to …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Fri 07 Sep 2012
Social Care (Local Sufficiency) and Identification of Carers Bill

"I was interested in my hon. Friend’s points about employers. Does she agree that it is in employers’ interests to learn more about the needs of carers, and to support them better, so that they do not lose valuable, well-trained staff and have to recruit new ones?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Fri 07 Sep 2012
Social Care (Local Sufficiency) and Identification of Carers Bill

"My hon. Friend makes a wonderful point about the need to support young carers more. I have been a school governor for more than 20 years but have never heard the governing body talk about the needs of young carers. That needs to be addressed and more information needs to …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Fri 07 Sep 2012
Social Care (Local Sufficiency) and Identification of Carers Bill

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