Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Ben Gummer and Mims Davies

Tuesday 13th October 2015 Commons Chamber

[Mims Davies (Eastleigh) (Con)]

Given this Government’s continued excellent commitment to investing in our NHS and reducing preventable mortality, does the Minister agree that keeping healthcare provision as local as possible is very important for Moorgreen hospital in my constituency?

[Ben Gummer]

The core purpose of the Vanguard programme is to ensure that we get local solutions to local healthcare problems. Only by making sure that we release the potential of local healthcare staff and providers, doctors and nurses, do we get the solutions we require rather than things being determined from Whitehall, as was the wont of previous Administrations that we will not follow.