NHS Success Regime

Will Quince Excerpts
Thursday 4th June 2015

(9 years, 5 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Ben Gummer Portrait Ben Gummer
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I welcome the hon. Lady to her place. She will not know that there was an Adjournment debate at the end of the last Parliament on precisely this issue. I invite her to seek such a debate if she wishes to discuss local issues with me or other Ministers. The success regime has been devised by Simon Stevens and NHS England. It will be clinically led, fulfilling our desire to see the NHS led by doctors, not Whitehall bureaucrats.

Will Quince Portrait Will Quince (Colchester) (Con)
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I welcome the announcement. Colchester general hospital is in special measures. One of the biggest issues facing our hospital is the recruitment of nursing staff. Will my hon. Friend give an assurance that county-wide recruitment will be included as part of the success regime?

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Every single aspect that is troubling local health economies, including recruitment, I understand, will be within the scope of success regimes.