The Secretary of State heard the intervention I made on the right hon. Member for Leicester South (Jonathan Ashworth). Is he aware that, in January, Ipswich Hospital was able to more than double the number of intensive care unit beds it had available, from 11 to 25, precisely because it moved cancer patients to the Nuffield hospital in the independent sector? Does that not show the danger of ideologically ruling out the use of the independent sector, which immediately reduces the capacity of the NHS?
A Plan for the NHS and Social Care
Proceeding contribution from
James Cartlidge
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Wednesday, 19 May 2021.
It occurred during Queen's speech debate on A Plan for the NHS and Social Care.
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