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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 11 Jan 2017
NHS and Social Care Funding

"I am afraid not, because I am about to finish.

Much has been said about the STP programme. We have an STP in Mid and South Essex, and I strongly support it, because it is completely focused on improving and enhancing the quality of accident and emergency care. What annoys …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 20 Dec 2016
Oral Answers to Questions

"Does my right hon. Friend agree that one of the pressures of winter that needs improving is inappropriate admissions to A&E? Does he accept that the proposals by the Essex success regime to ensure that the three hospitals concerned will retain their A&E departments but that there will be a …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 06 Dec 2016
Health Service Medical Supplies (Costs) Bill

"I am listening carefully to what the hon. Gentleman is saying about Hinchinbrooke hospital. Might I suggest, tactfully, that he go and look at that hospital? Patients in Huntingdon would say that the hospital had vastly improved, but because of the conditions, it was not possible to make a financial …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 06 Dec 2016
Health Service Medical Supplies (Costs) Bill

"I think that what the hon. Gentleman said at the beginning of his comments on Hinchinbrooke —we will know for certain when we see the Official Report tomorrow—showed that he was using that example inaccurately to make a point about privatisation. He said that privatisation caused quality to go down, …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 22 Nov 2016
National Health Service Funding

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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 22 Nov 2016
National Health Service Funding

"I am so grateful to the hon. Gentleman. The House would take him somewhat more seriously if he pointed out that, by 2019-20, the real-terms increase in spending on the health service will be £10 billion. During the last election, his party promised to increase spending in this Parliament by …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 22 Nov 2016
National Health Service Funding

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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 22 Nov 2016
National Health Service Funding

"Does my right hon. Friend agree that without that investment since 2009-10 to last year there would not have been the 1.6 million more operations within the NHS that benefit all our constituents?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 15 Nov 2016
Oral Answers to Questions

"As part of the plans to reduce and prevent deaths during the winter, what changes have been made with regard to the winter fuel payments for those eligible residents living in the Mediterranean?..."
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Written Question
Breast Cancer
Wednesday 2nd November 2016

Asked by: Simon Burns (Conservative - Chelmsford)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans his Department has to ensure that vacant posts in breast radiology are filled over the next five years.

Answered by Philip Dunne

The Department does not collect this information.

National Health Service organisations are best placed to decide how many staff they employ tailoring services to meet the needs of their patients and local communities, to deliver safe care.

Health Education England is responsible for ensuring a secure workforce supply that reflects the needs of local service users, providers and commissioners of healthcare. As part of the investment planning process, clinical radiologists have been prioritised with plans to increase training posts by 32 to 1,144 for 2016-17 recruitment.