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Debate between Stephanie Peacock and Steve Brine(5 years, 5 months ago)
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Steve Brine
Yes, I can. I feel very passionately about stroke and the impact that it has on people’s lives and the health service. We are working very closely with the Stroke Association to develop the new national plan for stroke in England as part of the long-term plan. That plan will build on the success of the Department’s stroke strategy, which ended last month, and look at how we can improve stroke care across the pathway. It will also, critically, include prevention so that we can protect more people from stroke in the first place.
Stephanie Peacock (Barnsley East) (Lab)
Despite the Government’s reassurances on the new NHS pay deal, it has left one of my constituents actually taking less money home at the end of the month and being required to pay money back. When I wrote to the Department, the Minister had the audacity to simply respond with a generic factsheet. Does he think this acceptable, and if not, will he give a meaningful reply to my constituent, who has done 30 years in the NHS?
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Debate between Stephanie Peacock and Steve Brine(5 years, 6 months ago)
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Steve Brine
That is certainly not the case. We had a very good debate on breast cancer last week. It is BCAM still this month for another week. The 75% was a target, a new national ambition. It most certainly is not the limit of our ambition.
Stephanie Peacock (Barnsley East) (Lab)
Will the Government write off the debts of Yorkshire hospitals so that extra money invested can go into patient care?