Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 09 Jun 2020
Exercise Cygnus
"Is it true that Exercise Cygnus reported a shortage of ventilators, critical care beds and PPE in the National Health Service? If so, why were we singularly unprepared in all these spheres three and a half years later, at the beginning of Covid?..."Lord Clark of Windermere - View Speech
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 21 May 2020
Hospitals: Patient Safety
"Is the Minister aware that North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust has confirmed that for five weeks 100 staff working in its operating theatres had to use respiratory face masks that had not been individually fitted, putting patients and staff at risk? The regulatory-fit test had not been applied. …..."Lord Clark of Windermere - View Speech
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 30 Jan 2020
Nursing and Midwifery
"My Lords, the Minister mentioned the reimbursement of fees, which has been reintroduced. For non-mental nurse training, is this scheme as generous as that which was discontinued a couple of years ago, or do we reimburse only about 50% of the fees?..."Lord Clark of Windermere - View Speech
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Written Question
Thursday 23rd January 2020
Asked by:
Lord Clark of Windermere (Labour - Life peer)
Question
to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford on 25 April 2019 (HL15227), what progress they have made in considering whether current legislation and associated guidance are effective for protecting sunbed users.
Answered by Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
The Department, with expert advisers, is continuing to consider whether the current legislation and associated guidance produced by the Department, Public Health England and the Health and Safety Executive to support the enforcement of the regulations by local authorities and the safe use of sunbeds, are effective for protecting sunbed users.
Public Health England (PHE) is updating the guidance to sunbed users on the gov.uk website, with an expected publication date of spring 2020.
PHE is also developing an information poster for sunbed users. This is expected to be ready for publication before summer 2020.
Written Question
Thursday 23rd January 2020
Asked by:
Lord Clark of Windermere (Labour - Life peer)
Question
to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford on 25 April 2019 (HL15227), what timetable they have set for reviewing sunbed legislation and associated guidance.
Answered by Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
The Department, with expert advisers, is continuing to consider whether the current legislation and associated guidance produced by the Department, Public Health England and the Health and Safety Executive to support the enforcement of the regulations by local authorities and the safe use of sunbeds, are effective for protecting sunbed users.
Public Health England (PHE) is updating the guidance to sunbed users on the gov.uk website, with an expected publication date of spring 2020.
PHE is also developing an information poster for sunbed users. This is expected to be ready for publication before summer 2020.
Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 21 Jan 2020
NHS: A&E Waiting Time Target
"My Lords, regarding the increase in the number of GPs, bearing in mind that the coalition Government cut the training of doctors by thousands upon thousands and that the Government have announced that they are going to increase the number of GPs by 6,000, will the Government produce a timeline …..."Lord Clark of Windermere - View Speech
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 05 Sep 2019
Brexit: Medicine Supply and NHS Staffing
"My Lords, the noble Baroness is aware that virtually every pharmacist and every GP is experiencing dire shortages of certain medicines already. If the Government have such a good alternative plan for a no-deal Brexit, why do they not bring forward those plans to deal with the shortage that patients …..."Lord Clark of Windermere - View Speech
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 11 Jul 2019
NHS Dentistry Services
"Is it true that more than a million people were unable to get a dentist under the health service last year?..."Lord Clark of Windermere - View Speech
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 03 Jul 2019
National Health Service: Bullying
"To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the level of bullying, harassment and abuse in the National Health Service in England...."Lord Clark of Windermere - View Speech
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 03 Jul 2019
National Health Service: Bullying
"I thank the Minister for her Answer. As she said, the latest survey shows that over 25% of NHS staff had personally experienced bullying from fellow employees in the previous 12 months. Does she agree that that is appalling and intolerable, and that in most other organisations it would simply …..."Lord Clark of Windermere - View Speech
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