Oral Answers to Questions
Debate between Jeremy Hunt and Paul Maynard(9 years, 1 month ago)
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Mr Hunt
If the hon. Lady looks at what has happened with permanent full-time nursing staff, she will see that the numbers have gone up in our hospitals by 8,000 over the past two years, so there are alternatives. We need to do more to help the NHS in this respect, and I will be announcing something about that shortly.
Paul Maynard (Blackpool North and Cleveleys) (Con)
10. What plans he has to review renewal arrangements for the issuing of NHS medical exemption certificates.
A and E Departments
Debate between Jeremy Hunt and Paul Maynard(11 years, 6 months ago)
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Paul Maynard (Blackpool North and Cleveleys) (Con)
One million more patients a year are going through A and E departments and an increasing number of family doctors are progressively opting out of out-of-hours care. Why does the Secretary of State think that the King’s Fund can see the correlation but the Labour party cannot?
Mr Hunt
Because, I am afraid, the Labour party is completely failing to take responsibility for some catastrophically bad decisions that it made when it was in power. Labour Members might want to talk not only to people such as the King’s Fund, but to their own constituents, who say that traditional family doctoring is something they would like to see return.