NHS Outsourcing and Privatisation
I beg to move,
That an humble Address be presented to Her Majesty, that she will be graciou...
My hon. Friend should also be aware that many walk-in centres have closed. In my constituency, th...
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My hon. Friend makes the point well. I believe about 50 walk-in centres have closed and there are...
Lincoln’s walk-in centre was closed. A consultation was undertaken by the clinical commissioning ...
I thank my hon. Friend for her contribution. I know that she, as the relatively new Member for Li...
In the St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, the spending on agency nurses has qua...
My hon. Friend has, with great eloquence, explained why failing to plan properly on the workforce...
Of course, A&E waiting times would not be as long if the Government were investing properly in pr...
My hon. Friend has hit the nail on the head. The problem is that, when the Government allow our n...
I will give way to the former health Minister.
Will the hon. Gentleman confirm that five GP surgeries in Broxtowe have been rated outstanding, a...
I am delighted that GPs in Broxtowe have been rated outstanding, but patients in Broxtowe will be...
Would the hon. Gentleman like to speak to Nottingham City Council, which is run by Labour? It has...
I know that Councillor Jon Collins of Nottingham City Council is a talented man, but he does not ...
No, I am not giving way again. The right hon. Lady has had two chances; she can contribute to the...
On a point of order, Mr Deputy Speaker. Could the record please record that indeed the leader of ...
I think that is clarification.
I am grateful to the right hon. Lady for that. I invite her to make another point of order, becau...
I am happy to take that up. My understanding is that Nottinghamshire County Council is looking re...
Order. May I just help a little? We have 25 speakers to come in after the Front Benchers, so I ap...
I shall take your guidance, Mr Deputy Speaker. It is always a pleasure to indulge the right hon. ...
Given that Mr Deputy Speaker has just castigated me, let me make a little progress. Hopefully, I ...
Mr Deputy Speaker has asked me to make a bit of progress, so let me do so.
Underfunding and...
I will make a bit of progress because Mr Deputy Speaker has asked me to do so.
I say to the...
Let me make a bit of progress and then I will try to let others in.
If the Secretary of Sta...
I thank the hon. Gentleman for giving way. He is under a lot of pressure, rightly, in this debate...
I am grateful to the former Minister of State. We do miss him during our exchanges at the Dispatc...
Will my hon. Friend send his support to the staff from Wigan hospitals who are today striking in ...
I do agree. May I reassure my hon. Friend that those Unite and Unison members who are taking indu...
I am very grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving way. I know him to be a good man. May I put t...
I say to the right hon. Gentleman, of whom I am tremendously fond, as he knows, that I agree broa...
My hon. Friend has been very patient, so I will give way to him.
My hon. Friend has been generous in giving way. Does he agree that private companies are also inc...
The hon. Member for East Worthing and Shoreham (Tim Loughton) seems so desperately keen that I wi...
I am really grateful to the shadow Minister. Under the last Labour Government, before Worthing be...
I can reassure the hon. Gentleman that no, it is not. I agree with the Secretary of State that th...
Thirty-five pounds a week to watch the basic TV channels from a hospital bed; 60p a minute for a ...
My hon. Friend has hit upon a brilliant new campaign, which I am sure she will be running. The ch...
I will take an intervention from Chesterfield and then I will make some progress.
Chesterfield Royal Hospital is consulting on setting up a subsidiary company. Does it not seem ma...
In addition, hospitals have wasted millions in consultancy fees in setting up these organisations...
If Members will forgive me, I will make a little bit of progress, and then hopefully we will get ...
I will give way to the hon. Lady because she is a nurse.
Does the hon. Gentleman not agree that the any qualified provider system was brought in under the...
I remind the hon. Lady, whom I greatly respect in this House because of her work in the NHS, that...
And the CCGs are still paying out to Coperforma—is that not correct?
With regard to Sussex—I am sure that my right hon. Friend the Member for Mid Sussex (Sir Nicholas...
I am sure that the hon. Lady accepts that it is a scandal that the CCGs—her local health economy—...
The concerns that my hon. Friend is raising are the same as those raised by the Chair of the Heal...
My hon. Friend, who is extremely experienced, shows with great eloquence the dangers of this rele...
I thank the hon. Gentleman for giving way. I remember well when I worked in the NHS under a Labou...
Order. Members cannot make speeches in interventions.
I greatly respect the hon. Lady, and I greatly enjoyed her Red Box blog on mental health provisio...
Will my hon. Friend give way?
I will give way to my hon. Friend from Lewisham, and then I will make progress.
I thank my hon. Friend. He is right: the candidate in Lewisham East will absolutely be campaignin...
Absolutely. I wish the Labour candidate in Lewisham East well and will be campaigning with them. ...
Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Will my hon. Friend give way?
I will give way to my hon. Friend and then to the hon. Member for Dwyfor Meirionnydd.
I am grateful to my hon. Friend for giving way. Is not the biggest scandal of privatisation in fa...
My hon. Friend, who is an authority on these matters and campaigned on them for many years before...
It is not about my patience, but about Back Benchers.
I have only one question: will the hon. Gentleman explain why the Welsh Labour Government have ou...
We have always said that there is a small role for the private sector. This is what I said earlie...
Order. I want to hear Members on both sides, and I certainly want to hear the answer, but I canno...
We have always said that, and I do not know why Government Members are so surprised about it. Ind...
Will my hon. Friend give way?
I did say that I would not take any more interventions. I apologise to my hon. Friend; I know her...
Hopefully we will get some Back Benchers in, but I warn them that they will get no more than four...
I welcome the opportunity of this debate to dispel some particularly pernicious myths.
May ...
The Secretary of State touches on a point that is very pertinent in my constituency. I met a form...
That is exactly the point. Sometimes the quality is high in the private sector and sometimes it i...
I am listening carefully to the Secretary of State’s comments on ideology and the Health and Soci...
As Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai said about the French revolution, it is too early to tell.
As...
Will the Secretary of State give way?
I will give way, with great pleasure.
I really do think the Secretary of State has some brass neck. The Tory party voted against the cr...
As the shadow Health Secretary knows perfectly well, the way that this House works is that Opposi...
The circumstances around the recent collapse of Carillion have left Liverpool with an unfinished ...
I can give the hon. Lady that assurance. I am most grateful to her for raising that issue and rea...
I will give way one last time and then I will make some progress.
I thank the Secretary of State for giving way. On the issue of freedom of access and equality of ...
The hon. Gentleman makes a fair point, which would be echoed by many Government Members who repre...
Does the Secretary of State think it acceptable that ambulances were waiting outside Lincoln A&E ...
No, I do not think it acceptable at all, but I would ask the hon. Lady to bear it in mind that we...
Does my right hon. Friend agree that it would be completely inconsistent with the Freedom of Info...
My hon. Friend speaks extremely wisely. He is right: it would fundamentally weaken the ability of...
Order. As colleagues will see, a vast number of Members want to speak in the debate. I will impos...
I will be as brief as I can, Madam Deputy Speaker, to accommodate Members with clear constituency...
Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
I am sorry, but I will not take any interventions because many Members with constituency interest...
Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
I did say that I would not take interventions.
This is a debate.
The hon. Gentleman is right: many Members representing English constituencies want to talk about ...
I am sure that my hon. Friends the Members for Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk (John Lamont) a...
A few weeks ago, my local NHS trust in east Kent announced that more than 1,000 employees—more th...
My hon. Friend is making an excellent speech. Staff in Bradford have real concern about the plans...
Absolutely. I was just about to speak about Unison, which is my union.
Leading unions have ...
I have a question about what the hon. Lady said regarding the loss of services at Canterbury Hosp...
I agree that services started to be cut under a Labour Government, but they have got so much wors...
It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Canterbury (Rosie Duffield), but I come at this de...
On 6 March, I had the good fortune to secure a debate in Westminster Hall on wholly-owned subsidi...
The allegation of privatisation of the NHS is wholly misconceived. It is a reheated and debunked ...
My hon. Friend is making the point extremely well that there is complete inconsistency in
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My hon. Friend is absolutely right. I shall give three brief examples from my own constituency. F...
I refer the House to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests: I work as a GP.
It is a privilege to follow the hon. Member for Stockton South (Dr Williams) who made a laudable ...
I am pleased to be called to speak in this important debate.
In my constituency, local NHS ...
It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Batley and Spen (Tracy Brabin) and so many other c...
I rise to speak as a former public health consultant and the chair of a primary care trust.
It is a pleasure to contribute to the debate. I want to start by recognising the achievements of ...
As we have heard, this year marks the 70th anniversary of the creation of our national health ser...
I, too, want to use this opportunity to debunk the myth that the Conservative party wants to, or ...
After eight years of the Government’s austerity agenda, the NHS is on its knees. People in Lincol...
It is quite interesting to be following the speech we just heard. I will not dwell too much on it...
The biggest issue facing the NHS is the money and the workforce, and going into that mix, we have...
A constituent wrote to me last year to say that, against the backdrop of negativity around health...
It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Faversham and Mid Kent (Helen Whately). She spoke ...
I am very sorry, but in order to accommodate the remaining speakers—I thought that there were fou...
It is a pleasure to follow my hon. Friend the Member for Oxford East (Anneliese Dodds). I could n...
I remember when I first heard the term STP; I was portfolio holder for adult services at the time...
I will use this opportunity to focus on continuing the great work of my predecessor the right hon...
For now, NHS trusts remain the sole shareholder in their wholly owned subsidiary companies—yes, j...
For a maximum of two minutes, I call Hugh Gaffney.
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I thank the NHS’s public service workers for all that they do for us. They have stood against cut...
This has been an interesting, passionate debate with many knowledgeable contributions. My hon. Fr...
The Government oppose the motion. There is no complaint from the Chair of the Health and Social C...
claimed to move the closure (Standing Order No. 36).
Question put forthwith, That the Quest...