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Paula Sherriff

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BILL PRESENTED
Tuesday 14th November 2017

(7 years, 3 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Jeremy Hunt Portrait Mr Hunt
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My hon. Friend makes an important point. We have no plans for legislative changes, but we do want to see closer working between NHS Improvement and NHS England on the ground, so that people working in constituencies and areas such as his get only one set of instructions. We are making good progress.

Paula Sherriff Portrait Paula Sherriff (Dewsbury) (Lab)
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T7. I have repeatedly asked the Secretary of State, and I ask him yet again, whether he will visit my area to see for himself the damaging impacts that the downgrades and closures of local hospital services in Dewsbury and Huddersfield will have on my constituents.

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I am very happy to accept the hon. Lady’s invitation to visit her area, which I will do, but what I know I will see when I go there is that 8,300 more people are being treated within four hours at her local hospital, where there are 42 more doctors and 56 more nurses than in 2010.

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