NHS: Reform

My Lords, I, too, thank the Minister for repeating the Statement. It reflected much of what I hea...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord and the noble Baroness for their comments. I was quite depressed...

My Lords, I declare an interest as the chairman of the Great Ormond Street Hospital Foundation Tr...

I can only agree with the noble Baroness on bureaucracy. The new body that we are setting up to l...

The way that the Minister has been speaking has made it sound as if the majority of consultants d...

The noble Baroness raises a number of points. Of course, she is right that it is no good just hav...

I welcome my noble friend’s announcement—I hope that he will take some cheer from that. I have to...

I was interested by my noble friend’s comments about waiting until the following Monday when she ...

My Lords, no one will disagree with the concept of a seven-day-week health service. I was at the ...

Interestingly, the number of consultants has increased very significantly over the past 15 years ...

My Lords, most people will welcome much of what is in the Statement.

I would like to come b...

There is no doubt that, looking forward over the next five years, the resource to be put into pri...

My Lords, I welcome the principle of working towards a weekend service—indeed, I think it is hard...

The Government are committed to parity of esteem, and if we are truly committed to parity of este...

My Lords, I, too, welcome the Statement and many of the things in it. We accept that higher morta...

The noble Lord, Lord Turnberg, knows the situation on the ground as well as anybody in this House...