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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 26 Jun 2025
NHS and Social Care: Joint Working

"I very much agree with my noble friend about the importance of integration. As she explained, it is not necessarily about training to be joint, but about the approach. I will feed back her particular suggestion about job rotation to Minister Karin Smyth, who is responsible for developing the workforce …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 26 Jun 2025
NHS and Social Care: Joint Working

"My Lords, the Government are committed to developing an integrated health and care workforce which is skilled and well supported and has opportunities for high-quality learning, to enable staff to develop and progress their careers across an integrated system. We are also implementing joint induction for all health and care …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 26 Jun 2025
NHS and Social Care: Joint Working

"The noble Baroness raises a practical and realistic point that many care workers speak about. She will know that we are implementing a new fair pay agreement that, for the first time ever, will reflect what people actually do. Also, for the first time, there will be a universal career …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 26 Jun 2025
NHS and Social Care: Joint Working

"I certainly agree with the noble Lord about the importance of the individual needs of the person at the centre. For too long—and part of this is a lack of integration—the needs of the person who receives, wants and needs that care and support have not been at the front. …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 26 Jun 2025
NHS and Social Care: Joint Working

"I am not entirely sure, but I think that the noble Baroness is referring to my first Answer...."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 26 Jun 2025
NHS and Social Care: Joint Working

"I very much welcome that report and am pleased that the Government have been responsive to identifying what we need to do. I never tire of saying that, to support the workforce in the way that my noble friend said, we are introducing a new fair pay agreement for adult …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 26 Jun 2025
NHS and Social Care: Joint Working

"Good—thank you. This derives from the review by Sir Gordon Messenger. The first review was in 2022 and Sir Gordon came up with seven recommendations to strengthen leadership and management. To build on that, in November, Secretary of State Wes Streeting asked Sir Gordon to deliver further recommendations. That is …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 26 Jun 2025
NHS and Social Care: Joint Working

"Well, it is absolutely part of training, and the movement towards that integration of understanding across both sectors has been continuing for some while. The right reverend Prelate gives me the chance to say that we also have a digital platform that allows skills to be recognised across. The more …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 26 Jun 2025
NHS and Social Care: Joint Working

"The noble Baroness is quite right in her observations on the need to move to much better services here. First, on her point about discharge letters, appointment letters and so on, the Government have already committed funding and direct support to local areas that are not currently providing what we …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 26 Jun 2025
Diabetes: 10-Year Health Plan

"The noble Lord, Lord Rennard, knows that it is always good that we hear about his own experience, because he epitomises the changes that are possible. I believe there is an understanding—not least because, as noble Lords will know, the Chancellor very recently gave the department a settlement that was, …..."
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