NHS: Allocation of Financial Resources Debate

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Department: Department of Health and Social Care

NHS: Allocation of Financial Resources

Baroness Williams of Trafford Excerpts
Thursday 11th May 2023

(1 year, 7 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Baroness Williams of Trafford Portrait Baroness Williams of Trafford (Con)
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My Lords, we will hear from the Conservative Benches and then the Cross Benches.

Baroness Manzoor Portrait Baroness Manzoor (Con)
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My Lords, I very much welcome the significant sums of money that have been put into the NHS to date by the Government. It is not just increases in beds that we need in hospitals. We live in an age where we have made significant inroads and innovation in technology, diagnostics and so forth, including artificial intelligence. Will my noble friend the Minister say how new technologies are being used to ensure that patients are not needing the extra beds in hospitals and creating the old mistakes we know of?