Mentions:
1: Wes Streeting (Lab - Ilford North) Patients were waiting dangerously long for ambulances and in A&E before the strikes. - Speech Link
2: Victoria Atkins (Con - Louth and Horncastle) Just to help him understand, we are delivering the 800 new ambulances—those are new ambulances—at pace - Speech Link
3: Daisy Cooper (LD - St Albans) When will the Government get serious about public health interventions such as vaccine uptake, air filtration - Speech Link
Asked by: Baillie, Jackie (Scottish Labour - Dumbarton)
Question
To ask the Scottish Government whether Scottish Ambulance Service staff transporting critically ill premature babies from NHS Lanarkshire to NHS Grampian will be expected to make the journey without a break.
Answered by Minto, Jenni - Minister for Public Health and Women's Health
As has been established practice for many years, the staff and vehicle required to move critically ill patients is determined based on circumstances and clinical need. Our specialist neonatal transfer service (ScotSTAR) will transfer those babies by air or road in specialist ambulances equipped to care for neonates.
ScotSTAR will be introducing a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) which will have variations between emergency and scheduled/planned transfers. NHS Grampian will be on the outer limits for drivers but expectation would be that the journey will be done without a break.
Asked by: Baillie, Jackie (Scottish Labour - Dumbarton)
Question
To ask the Scottish Government how long it anticipates the journey from University Hospital Wishaw to Aberdeen Maternity Hospital will take for ambulances moving premature babies.
Answered by Minto, Jenni - Minister for Public Health and Women's Health
Under the new model of care, mothers in suspected extreme pre-term labour will be transferred to give birth in hospitals that have neonatal intensive care units. Those maternity units will have expanded capacity to receive those women.
It is recognised that it will not always be possible to transfer mothers before they give birth. In those cases, as has been established practice for many years, our specialist neonatal transfer service (ScotSTAR) will transfer those babies by air or by road in specialist ambulances equipped to care for neonates, accompanied by neonatal staff.
The Scottish Perinatal network has developed and published guidance for all Boards across Scotland to support identification and transfer of mothers in suspected extreme preterm labour. Experiences of testing the new model of neonatal intensive care showed that the vast majority of mothers in suspected pre-term labour were identified and transferred before giving birth.
Women from NHS Lanarkshire would normally be transferred to the Queen Elizabeth University hospital in Glasgow. Should that unit be at capacity, it may it be necessary to transfer those women to Edinburgh, or to Aberdeen, and parents will be involved in those discussions.
Journey times from Wishaw to Aberdeen will vary depending on the time of day and urgency of the transfer.
Asked by: Fleur Anderson (Labour - Putney)
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, whether he has held discussions with his Israeli counterpart on the reported air strike on two Palestine Red Crescent Society ambulances in Gaza on 5 December 2023.
Answered by Andrew Mitchell - Minister of State (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office) (Minister for Development)
The UK is aware of reports of attacks against healthcare facilities and infrastructure. Healthcare workers, emergency services personnel, civilian buildings including hospitals and medical facilities not used for military purposes must not be targeted. We support Israel's right to defend itself against Hamas, but Israel must ensure its campaign protects civilians in Gaza, complies with International Humanitarian Law and targets Hamas fighters and military objectives only. The Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary continue to press these in engagements with Israeli counterparts.
Written Evidence Dec. 18 2023
Inquiry: The UK’s engagement with the Middle East and North AfricaFound: millions of refugees. 10.In Gaza, Israel has enforced a comprehensive and illegal land, sea and air
Dec. 16 2023
Source Page: Correspondence in relation to offshore wind: FOI releaseFound: Four police cars and two ambulances attended the scene.
Laid - 14 Dec 2023 In Force Not stated
These Regulations are made under the Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Act 2018 (c. 13) to amend the Russia (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/855) (“the 2019 Regulations”).
Found: on which it was transported has departed a port in Russia for a destination outside of Russia; (iii)air
Mentions:
1: Daniel Kawczynski (Con - Shrewsbury and Atcham) consulting the indigenous people, the Chagossians, whom we expelled in 1968 to make way for an American air - Speech Link
2: Lyn Brown (Lab - West Ham) Sewage is flowing in the streets, with enormous risk to health, while hospitals and ambulances continue - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Kenny MacAskill (Alba - East Lothian) Why are we not being told what the Americans are taking from a Royal Air Force base in Cyprus into Israel - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) When the launcher is called into action, it saves lives, and that is very important.The Iron Dome air - Speech Link
3: Anum Qaisar (SNP - Airdrie and Shotts) worse.Then we saw injured Palestinians from northern Gaza travelling to the south on foot, as there were no ambulances - Speech Link
Dec. 08 2023
Source Page: Correspondence regarding the Scottish Labour conference and the Labour Party in general: FOI releaseFound: eighteen months into a pandemic, but we still have no idea how which schools are safe or what quality of air