Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust Inquiry

The noble Lord has taken the words out of my mouth.

My Lords, with the leave of the House I will now repeat a Statement made earlier in another place...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord the Leader of the House for repeating the Prime Minister’s State...

My Lords, I am grateful for the way in which the noble Lord, Lord Hunt of Kings Heath, put his qu...

My Lords, I remind the House of the benefit of short questions in order that my noble friend the ...

My Lords, we, too, welcome the Francis report, and the many recommendations that we believe will ...

As my noble friend said, Robert Francis certainly recommended a statutory duty of candour, and my...

My Lords, the Statement says:

“every carer, every member of staff will be given the opportu...

I understand the noble Lord’s point. Like many things in this report, we will need to consider ex...

My Lords, would that it were only the Mid Staffordshire hospital that was guilty of the kind of w...

I very much agree with the broad point that my noble friend is making. One of the recurring theme...

The report calls for NICE to devise tools to calculate safe staffing levels, which have already b...

As I think I said in my earlier response to the noble Lord, Lord Hunt of Kings Heath, the registr...

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My Lords—

I think we should hear from the Labour Benches.

The noble Lord the Leader of the House has referred to the fact that there is now to be a contrac...

On the duty of candour, I said in my response the noble Lord’s noble friend that the suggestion a...

My Lords, like many others, I am sure the House would like to ask the noble Lord the Leader of th...

Order!

My Lords, I think we should hear from the Minister.

Many of us during the course of the debate were obliged to listen to a very great deal of what I ...

Too long!

I am going to continue, so noble Lords had better get used to it.

My Lords, I think the sense of the House is that we would like to hear from the noble Lord the Le...

Hear, hear!

I shall complete my remarks.

Order!

I have much to comment about on this front, and I am going to finish my sentence. We all need to ...

I agree about the theme, which I think we have all accepted, that there is a common responsibilit...

My Lords, for some 35 years, my constituents in South Staffordshire had good healthcare from Staf...

That is an extremely important point, and it is part of what the Government need to do in their r...

My Lords, I have questions relating to two areas in the Statement on which a decision has already...

My Lords, perhaps I responded elliptically to the noble Lord’s first point about whether we had p...

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My Lords—

My Lords, I think we should hear from the Labour Benches.

My Lords, I welcome the Minister’s emphasis on the importance of involving patients and their rel...

I certainly take the point that that principle is one we need to apply in our response. As regard...

My Lords, Francis quite rightly recognises the contribution made by healthcare support workers. H...

My Lords, at the moment I cannot give the specific assurance my noble friend would like because t...

My Lords, can the Leader assure me that there will not be bullying and that there will be kindnes...

My Lords, I could not agree more. One of the things that are most distressing when one strips awa...