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Lords Chamber
NHS Winter Update - Thu 11 Jan 2024
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: None The plan committed to delivering 5,000 new permanent staffed beds. - Speech Link
2: None at home, away from hospital. - Speech Link
3: Lord Allan of Hallam (LD - Life peer) beds, which I will come to next. - Speech Link
4: Lord Winston (Lab - Life peer) who are most vulnerable are coming to get vaccinated, first for flu and secondly, of course, for the coronavirus - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Living in a COVID World: A Long-term Approach to Resilience and Wellbeing (COVID-19 Committee Report) - Wed 29 Nov 2023
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Alderdice (LD - Life peer) beds are not 100% full, or even 98% full because, if you do that and something happens, you get all - Speech Link
2: Lord Robathan (Con - Life peer) referred to the cost of living crisis, which is closely related to the failures of policy during the coronavirus - Speech Link
3: Lord Allan of Hallam (LD - Life peer) There will be others, however, for whom being in hospital is essential—often for socioeconomic factors—and - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Future of the NHS - Tue 24 Oct 2023
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Anna Firth (Con - Southend West) Hospices save the NHS money in the long term by reducing pressures on hospital beds, ensuring our hospice - Speech Link
2: Preet Kaur Gill (LAB - Birmingham, Edgbaston) Thousands of people are stuck in hospital beds who are medically fit to leave but are unable to do so - Speech Link
3: Preet Kaur Gill (LAB - Birmingham, Edgbaston) Since the Prime Minister and Health Secretary made a pledge in January for 5,000 more beds in time for - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Health Inequalities: North-west London - Mon 15 May 2023
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Rupa Huq (LAB - Ealing Central and Acton) There is the unintended consequence of patient choice at the eye department at Central Middlesex Hospital - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Covid Pandemic: Testing of Care Home Residents - Mon 06 Mar 2023
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: None “The Covid-19 pandemic was an unprecedented global health emergency involving a novel coronavirus that - Speech Link
2: Baroness Brinton (LDEM - Life peer) that“a number of CCGs are still pushing care homes to take block-bookings of patients coming out of hospital - Speech Link
3: Lord Naseby (CON - Life peer) noble friend—which read:“To ask Her Majesty’s Government what has been the COVID-19 testing policy for hospital - Speech Link
4: Lord Markham (CON - Life peer) beds to improve the performance of the whole system. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Covid Pandemic: Testing of Care Home Residents - Wed 01 Mar 2023
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Helen Whately (CON - Faversham and Mid Kent) The covid-19 pandemic was an unprecedented global health emergency involving a novel coronavirus that - Speech Link
2: Helen Whately (CON - Faversham and Mid Kent) our adult social care plan published on 15 April, which made it clear that everyone discharged from a hospital - Speech Link
3: Barbara Keeley (LAB - Worsley and Eccles South) testing in care homes for staff and residents and, in particular, for patients being discharged from hospital - Speech Link
4: Tim Loughton (CON - East Worthing and Shoreham) There were also urgent calls for available beds in hospitals to be freed up to cope with the likely surge - Speech Link
5: Emma Lewell-Buck (LAB - South Shields) In April 2020, now-disappeared Government guidance in relation to hospital discharges stated:“Negative - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
United Kingdom: Future Pandemics - Mon 16 Jan 2023
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Lord Browne of Ladyton (LAB - Life peer) they had carried out Exercise Alice in 2016, which was designed to recognise the challenges should a coronavirus - Speech Link
2: Baroness Brinton (LDEM - Life peer) Can he explain why there are over 9,000 patients currently in hospital with Covid, over half of whom - Speech Link
3: Lord Markham (CON - Life peer) As we are aware, 9,000 beds being taken up by Covid is a response to our seeing more waves: this is something - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Preparing for Extreme Risks (RARPC Report) - Thu 12 Jan 2023
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Arbuthnot of Edrom (CON - Life peer) Okay, we thought that it would be a flu pandemic, but we were told that, if it were a coronavirus pandemic - Speech Link
2: Lord Hunt of Wirral (CON - Life peer) The decades-long policy of reducing the number of beds in the NHS also began to look rather questionable - Speech Link
3: Baroness Twycross (LAB - Life peer) arguably why the UK was better prepared for repeats of a flu or swine flu pandemic than for a SARS coronavirus-type - Speech Link
4: Lord Mair (CB - Life peer) The hospital had back-up generators and fuel for 14 days, but A&E became the first port of call for - Speech Link
5: Baroness Brinton (LDEM - Life peer) We also have 9,000 Covid cases in hospital; many of them are the very vulnerable people who were asked - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Contact in Care Settings - Thu 27 Oct 2022
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Dan Carden (LAB - Liverpool, Walton) the A&E ward, which was overrun with patients on beds or trollies in the corridor. - Speech Link
2: Daisy Cooper (LDEM - St Albans) As it turned out, because of a lack of suitable beds, Andy spent almost two weeks in that ward. - Speech Link
3: Liz Saville Roberts (PC - Dwyfor Meirionnydd) 2021 to a community hospital specialising in stroke rehabilitation. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Violent Crime, Gang Activity and Burglaries - Thu 20 Oct 2022
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Bach (LAB - Life peer) Royal Infirmary to try to talk to victims and perpetrators of knife crime, who of course end up in hospital - Speech Link
2: Baroness Warwick of Undercliffe (LAB - Life peer) the 1.8 million offences recorded in the year ending March 2021, and the similar figure in the pre-coronavirus - Speech Link
3: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (CON - Life peer) Serious youth violence, as measured by hospital admissions among under-25s for assault by a sharp object - Speech Link