Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Paul Burstow and Simon Danczuk

Tuesday 27th March 2012 Commons Chamber

[Simon Danczuk (Rochdale) (Lab)]

On 24 February, my constituent, Audrey Kay, died after a litany of poor treatment. Will the Minister meet her son and me to hear Audrey’s treatment story?

[Paul Burstow]

Of course, I will be only too pleased to have that meeting.

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Paul Burstow and Simon Danczuk

Tuesday 21st February 2012 Commons Chamber

[Paul Burstow]

I can indeed. We will shortly be publishing a more detailed implementation plan showing the role that the NHS Commissioning Board, the clinical commissioning groups and others will play, alongside the voluntary sector, in delivering the strategy. More importantly, we are also doing work on long-term conditions that will begin, for the first time, to join up the way in which we commission physical and mental health services. We have to do that in order to deliver better outcomes for people.

[Simon Danczuk (Rochdale) (Lab)]

Every week in my surgery, I hear more and more residents complaining about having to wait too long for an operation, if they can get on to the waiting list at all. This top-down reorganisation is clearly exacerbating the problem. Why do not the Government just drop the Bill?

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Paul Burstow and Simon Danczuk

Tuesday 26th April 2011 Commons Chamber

[Paul Burstow]

I will take Labour facts with a pinch of salt. Under Labour, social care was always very much the poor relation. Under this coalition, social care has received a £2 billion spending boost and an unprecedented transfer of resources from the NHS—something that the hon. Lady’s party, if it had been in power, would not have been able to do, because it would have been busy cutting the NHS.

[Simon Danczuk (Rochdale) (Lab)]

8. What plans he has to visit NHS services in Rochdale; and if he will make a statement.