Health and Social Care Leadership Review Debate

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Department: Department of Health and Social Care

Health and Social Care Leadership Review

Stephen Hammond Excerpts
Wednesday 8th June 2022

(2 years, 5 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Sajid Javid Portrait Sajid Javid
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My hon. Friend rightly never misses an opportunity to make the case for his local hospital. I have heard him carefully and I am happy to meet him to discuss it.

Stephen Hammond Portrait Stephen Hammond (Wimbledon) (Con)
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I thank my right hon. Friend for his statement and for the report. Recommendation 4 talks about a standardisation of appraisal. Does he agree that cutting out variation in performance is key, and will he therefore confirm that the recommendations from Tim Briggs’s “Getting It Right First Time” report will be embedded in that standardisation procedure?

Sajid Javid Portrait Sajid Javid
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I agree with my hon. Friend: that recommendation for a standard appraisal system, which, remarkably, does not exist at the moment, is of particular importance, like all of the recommendations. I agree with the emphasis he puts on that.