Future of the NHS

I absolutely agree with my right hon. Friend. The problems for our children further down the line...

I congratulate my hon. Friend on securing the debate. This will come as a surprise to her, but I ...

I will address my hon. Friend’s point in my remarks. This Government’s ideological commitment to ...

I thank my hon. Friend for making such a powerful speech on a really important issue. A fantastic...

Yes. We have all seen for ourselves and heard from our constituents how difficult it is to get an...

I congratulate my hon. Friend on securing this important debate and making such a powerful case. ...

I agree that if things do not change, that is exactly the route we are going down.

I congratulate my hon. Friend on securing the debate. Does she acknowledge that this has already ...

We are seeing this across the whole NHS, including dentistry, as my hon. Friend rightly says.

I rise to set out in this debate on the future of the NHS, with the experience of three years as ...

I absolutely agree that there is a moral case for healthcare free at the point of need in our cou...

I am very grateful to the right hon. Member for that intervention. I am not surprised that he agr...

My right hon. Friend is being generous with his time. Is there not a fourth argument for a univer...

Two of my arguments for what the NHS needs to do better in the future are responses to precisely ...

I am sure the right hon. Member will acknowledge that a lot of the doctors who are now working in...

No, that is not right. There are record numbers in training, and the opening of the new medical s...

Will the right hon. Member give way?

I will in a moment.

That inefficiency means that different parts of the NHS cannot talk to ...

Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?

I will make one final point before I give way to the two hon. Members who are seeking to interven...

To bring the right hon. Member back to the point he made about digital data and making sure that ...

Of course, it is critical that people do not have to use a computer to access a universal service...

The right hon. Member is being very generous with his time. We all believe that technology is use...

Of course, if somebody cannot use eConsult, they should be able to phone up or turn up in person,...

I am grateful to the right hon. Member for giving way for a second time. It seems to be a common ...

I wish that I had been able to drive forward the use of technology even more than I did. I pushed...

I am grateful to my right hon. Friend for giving way again. I had to have a procedure the other d...

I hear such stories all the time. We should separate out free at the point of use from not abusin...

Will the right hon. Member give way?

I will give way for the final time.

The right hon. Member is being generous. I completely disagree with him about charging people for...

Order. The right hon. Gentleman has been generous in taking interventions, but I am conscious tha...

I apologise; I have tried to be generous in taking interventions. It has been a positive and good...

First, I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Jarrow (Kate Osborne), my constituency neighb...

I thank my hon. Friend for making such a powerful speech, and I declare that I am also a proud me...

I most certainly agree that that is a shocking figure. We need to make sure that we are really ad...

I am delighted to hear that Labour has a plan. Would the hon. Lady please share it with the Healt...

Well, I thank the hon. Member for that comment, but I will stick to my constituency in the north-...

My hon. Friend and I were in a meeting earlier this week with the regional care board, and it tol...

That certainly concerns me and, yes, my hon. Friend is absolutely right to say that. Actually, I ...

My hon. Friend makes an important point about isolation and mental health, particularly for teena...

It is absolutely right that socioeconomic factors have an impact on the number of suicides and le...

My hon. Friend raises a valuable point. I am passionate about mental health, but at the moment we...

I most certainly agree that there is a need for a mental health strategy. I have spoken to volunt...

I am delighted to catch your eye in this important debate, Madam Deputy Speaker. I commend the ho...

I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Jarrow (Kate Osborne) for securing this important discussio...

It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Bolton South East (Yasmin Qureshi), and I congratu...

Thirteen years!

You have been in power for 13 years!

How right he turned out to be. However, he is watching it, and my phone has not stopped receiving...

Thirteen years!

They are saying it now—they cannot help themselves. It is endemic in their thinking, but it does ...

Look at the stats!

I invite them to come to Wales and view the conditions in the north Wales health board, where onl...

I thank the hon. Member for making—a speech. He says that this is a political issue. Does he agre...

I thank the hon. Lady for her intervention. How easy would it have been to go out into the media ...

I fail to see how the hon. Member does not understand that these points are political. For 13 yea...

I thank the hon. Lady for her intervention, but I am so exasperated by this. We hear from the Opp...

indicated dissent.

It has—although if Opposition Members want to argue with the King’s Fund, that is fine. But if NH...

Order. I call Paulette Hamilton.

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I, too, congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Jarrow (Kate Osborne) on securing this debate....

On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. I apologise to the House for interrupting the debate. ...

I thank the hon. Gentleman for his apology. As he said, it is important that we use moderation in...

It is a great pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Birmingham, Erdington (Mrs Hamilton) and to ...

I am listening carefully to the point that the hon. Gentleman is making. The knowledge and skills...

The hon. Lady makes a very good point, and I am glad that I gave way to her to enable her to make...

The same problem applies to dentists, who have no responsibility whatsoever to work for the NHS w...

That, too, is a good point. I am not saying that the hon. Gentleman has necessarily got the right...

One of the main problems with dentistry when it comes to resources is the difference between the ...

In fairness to the Government, they say that they are now looking at it—a bit late in the day, I ...

May I take up my hon. Friend’s point about dentists not taking on more work? The same applies to ...

I do agree with that. I have raised this subject in parliamentary questions, and what have I had ...

I thank the hon. Member for Jarrow (Kate Osborne) for initiating a debate that enables us to disc...

I agree entirely with the sentiments expressed by my right hon. Friend. However, does he accept t...

I agree that the issue of recruitment is crucial, which means that the issue of training is cruci...

I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Jarrow (Kate Osborne) on securing this debate and on...

I want to get back to some statistics; I am sorry if I am going to bore the House, but I want to ...

I appreciate the right hon. Gentleman giving way and the tone in which he approaches the debate. ...

That is an extremely valid point that must be addressed. When some of us were doing health econom...

Is my right hon. Friend aware that the impact of an inadequacy in healthcare provision falls on A...

Anyone who has talked with them will have heard local police officers say that they have become s...

That can be arranged later.

That’s right.

The social care figures are startling. Some 1.5 million people aged 65 and ov...

The right hon. Gentleman is being very generous with his time. He will know, having been shadow C...

I am sure that the hon. Gentleman has made that point before. I looked at the Nuffield Foundation...

We can all be very proud of our NHS and the people who care for millions of patients every year, ...

I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Jarrow (Kate Osborne) on securing this important deb...

I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Jarrow (Kate Osborne) for securing this really good, much-n...

I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Jarrow (Kate Osborne) on securing this important deb...

If Labour Members have this plan, have they communicated it to the Welsh Health Minister? Why is ...

Don’t score them, then.

It is not a political matter! These issues affect the entire United Kingdom. Does the hon. Lady a...

May I gently say to the hon. Gentleman that I know what is best for his constituents and the peop...

I listened very carefully to what the leader of the hon. Lady’s party said on the “Today” program...

Yes, we have properly costed these proposals, because we—unlike the hon. Gentleman’s party, which...

I am grateful to the hon. Member for Jarrow (Kate Osborne) for securing this very important debat...

Will that long-term workforce plan include social care staff?

It will be right across the piece. We have already set out some of our plans for social care, and...

Can the Minister clarify something for me? He talks about the workforce plan. Can he tell us whet...

It will be about both what is needed over time—some of the time horizons might be longer—and what...

Will the Minister give way again?

I want to make a bit of progress. I am sorry, but I will perhaps come back to the hon. Lady in a ...

The Minister has repeatedly used this £7.5 billion extra for social care figure, but will he conf...

Is that not a revealing comment from the Opposition? The Government do not have any money. All th...

I got the impression the Minister was winding up; I just ask him to commit to looking at the issu...

I am happy to make that commitment.

The Minister has not covered the issue of productivity. He has mentioned, quite rightly, that the...

I am as keen as my hon. Friend to explore all those different things and I am happy to take them ...

The final word goes to Kate Osborne.

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I thank everyone who has contributed today. I also thank all NHS staff who are taking industrial ...