"I am revising the 2025-26 financial directions to NHS England made on 31 March 2025, and setting the 2026-27 financial directions to NHS England.
The amendment to the total revenue resource use limit for 2025-26 has been agreed with NHS England, as required under section 223D(4) of the National Health …..." Karin Smyth - View Speech
"Today, we are launching a consultation for the General Medical Council that aims to bring healthcare professional regulation into the 21st century.
The consultation will provide a basis on which to tackle inefficiencies, slow processes, and bureaucratic barriers to change, thereby enabling faster, fairer and more forward-looking regulation. This is …..." Karin Smyth - View Speech
"I am not going to give way; I am going to get through these points.
The safety and wellbeing of children and young people have always been the driving consideration in every decision we have made regarding this trial, and always will be. That is why the trial sponsor has …..." Karin Smyth - View Speech
Dr Cass also recommended that we take forward the data linkage study as part of the wider national research programme. The linkage study is not a clinical trial, and as such it will not in and of itself provide the type of evidence that can demonstrate …..." Karin Smyth - View Speech
Those services operate under a fundamentally different clinical model from the Tavistock clinic. Children and young people will get comprehensive, tailored assessment and support from multidisciplinary teams made up of experts in paediatrics, neurodiversity and mental health.
"It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Mr Mundell. I thank the hon. Member for Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross (Jamie Stone) of the Petitions Committee for the way in which he introduced the debate. In his usual style, he made sure that he had talked to a …..." Karin Smyth - View Speech
"The Chancellor has made her key decision to put us back on track, announcing in the Budget that capital health spending would increase by £15.2 billion by the end of the spending review period in 2029-30.
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"The Chancellor has made her key decision to put us back on track, announcing in the Budget that capital health spending would increase to £15.2 billion by the end of the spending review period in 2029-30...." Karin Smyth - View Speech
"I thank my hon. Friend the Member for York Central (Rachael Maskell) for securing this important debate. We entered Parliament at the same time; we were immediately on opposite sides of the assisted dying debate, and we remain so. Although the Government are neutral, we have always articulated our concern …..." Karin Smyth - View Speech
"My hon. Friend pre-empts my next paragraph; I thank him for his contribution.
As part of the development of the MSF, we will be looking at some of the important aspects of care that my hon. Friend the Member for York Central mentioned, such as early identification of need, care …..." Karin Smyth - View Speech