NHS Shared Business Services Debate

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Gareth Snell

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Confidence and Supply Arrangement
Tuesday 27th June 2017

(7 years, 4 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Jeremy Hunt Portrait Mr Hunt
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I am not sure that I have as many lives as the hon. Gentleman.

Gareth Snell Portrait Gareth Snell (Stoke-on-Trent Central) (Lab/Co-op)
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My hon. Friend the Member for Tooting (Dr Allin-Khan) was absolutely right when she suggested that the Secretary of State is trying to downgrade 1,788 cases of potential harm and a potential conflict of interest to no more than an administrative error by a contracted-out service. In my constituency, a tender for cancer care was ended prematurely, costing the taxpayer millions of pounds. Are these not examples of where the Conservative party’s ideological agenda to contract out our NHS services is failing and patients are suffering as a result?

Jeremy Hunt Portrait Mr Hunt
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Quite the opposite. Those examples show that we take the contracts off the private sector when it lets us down. That is what happened in the case raised by the hon. Gentleman and with SBS.

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