NHS: Learning from Mistakes

Paula Sherriff Excerpts
Wednesday 9th March 2016

(8 years, 8 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Jeremy Hunt Portrait Mr Hunt
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It is so good to have someone with nursing experience in the House, and I hope that my hon. Friend will make an important contribution for many years to come. She knows what it is like on the front line, and why it is important to get this culture change. She also knows how important it is not to run down the NHS, which is doing extremely well.

Paula Sherriff Portrait Paula Sherriff (Dewsbury) (Lab)
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Last week I received an email that was frankly heartbreaking. My constituent’s 84-year-old father, a proud and dignified man, was admitted to hospital with symptoms of a stroke, and he had to wait 14 hours for a bed. She went to visit him later that day and found him in bed wearing clothes on only his top half. He needed the toilet, and she was given a bottle to help him urinate.

Baroness Laing of Elderslie Portrait Madam Deputy Speaker
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Order. I am sure that the hon. Lady will quickly come to her question.

Paula Sherriff Portrait Paula Sherriff
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That was no dignified way to treat that man. Will the Secretary of State agree to an urgent investigation into safe staffing levels at Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust, because the nursing staff told my constituent that they did not have time to fulfil her father’s basic nursing needs?

Jeremy Hunt Portrait Mr Hunt
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I am more than happy to look into that case, which is exactly the kind of thing that we are trying to stop with the measures we are bringing forward today.