Ambulance Services and National Heatwave Emergency Debate

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Ambulance Services and National Heatwave Emergency

Lord Lexden Excerpts
Wednesday 13th July 2022

(2 years, 3 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Baroness Penn Portrait Baroness Penn (Con)
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There are 10 ambulance service trusts and they have differing levels of performance. I acknowledge that across all those 10 trusts there is pressure on the system in rural and urban areas. Our focus is to provide specific support to those trusts that are struggling the most.

Lord Lexden Portrait Lord Lexden (Con)
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What have been the results of Mr Johnson’s promises to build new hospitals?

Baroness Penn Portrait Baroness Penn (Con)
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There is work under way in the NHS and the Department for Health and Social Care to deliver on that pledge.