Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Jane Ellison and Karen Lumley

Tuesday 1st April 2014 Commons Chamber

[Jane Ellison]

I echo my previous point that all our front-line health care services have a role to play in the community in helping people to keep well, to stay out of acute care and to manage their medicine. Indeed, the NHS is looking at this question more widely, and I understand that the central message of Simon Stevens’s speech today is that we need to look in the round at the way in which all our front-line services work together to deliver great care in the community.

[Karen Lumley (Redditch) (Con)]

5. What progress he has made on improving out-of-hospital care for frail elderly people.