Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust

Siobhain McDonagh Excerpts

Wednesday 9th June 2010 Commons Chamber

[Mr Lansley]

My right hon. Friend is absolutely right. That is why we have to move from all those questions to some serious answers—so that we can have the reform that the NHS so badly needs. I know and he knows that this is about not just a different set of structures, but a change of culture and a focus in the NHS on patients and results for patients to the exclusion of other bureaucratic impositions. There is such immense bureaucracy—PCTs, SHAs and regulators—that everything should have worked perfectly, but it did not. Why? Because in all of that, the underlying pressures in the service were not focused on results for patients. We have to drive towards that conclusion.

[Siobhain McDonagh (Mitcham and Morden) (Lab)]

Will the Secretary of State give way?

[Mr Speaker]

There is no giving way involved; this is a statement.