Speeches by McIntyre.

“I am conscious that I have only two minutes before I have to hand back to the Chair, but you have teed up my next question again, Anna—thank you for that. Could you, in about a minute each, give a couple of concrete actions from the strategy that you would like to see the Government take in the next 18 months?”

“Q6. Next year marks the 75th anniversary of the battle of the Imjin river, where the 29th Infantry Brigade’s last stand prevented the capture of Seoul during the Korean war. That hill is now called Gloster Hill as a proud testament to the incredible bravery of one of those battalions, our glorious Glosters. Will the Pr…”

“In Gloucester, thanks to the Government investing £1 million in neighbourhood policing and a further £1 million in its safer streets initiative, we have seen more police on our streets this summer, leading to an increase in arrests and seizures of illegal e-bikes and vapes. Some of that funding is to come to an end thi…”

“20. What recent progress her Department has made on tackling antisocial behaviour.”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Dr Allin-Khan. I thank the 393 Gloucester constituents who signed the petition and all those who have contacted me over the past year about SEND provision in our city. Far too many children with SEND in my city did not start school with their peers last week, and many of …”

“When do we expect it to be published?”

“It strikes me that if we want to have parity of esteem with physical health, it would seem an obvious step to indicate that to patients by giving them a standard that they should expect their service to perform to. What impact do you expect the modern service framework to have on community mental health services for pe…”

“Going back to the point you made about waiting times, if we are measuring them and publishing them, why can’t we have a standard for community mental health waiting times?”

“I am relying on colleagues’ expertise but talking therapies are not available for many people with SMIs. Bipolar and schizophrenia, for example, are often excluded from them. If we are relying on things like talking therapies, how do we broaden the access to them? Is it even appropriate to do so?”

“Thank you—that is very comprehensive. To come back to the point that you made about waiting times, in 2022 NHS England consulted on waiting times standards for community mental health. Nothing seems to have happened since that consultation, so will those waiting times standards be implemented by services? If so, when?”

“Just to build on that last question, in terms of healthcare being out in the community, you said you wanted this to be a one-door, wraparound service. One of the most successful aspects of the community mental health hubs programme that we saw on our visit to Trieste was the fact that it was not just contained within a…”

“It was worth a try.”

“Early next year? Late next year?”

“Taking this back to my constituents over the weekend, what impact will they see in practical terms as a result of the framework?”

“Building on my colleague’s questions on strikes, it would be remiss of me not to mention that I am an MP in Gloucester and our local trust has the longest ongoing strike in NHS history at the moment, with its phlebotomists. I appreciate that is for the local trust for deal with, but this has come out of a national band…”

“Touching upon colleagues’ questions on league tables, we have all been scrolling through the list today to see where our local trust is. I am very pleased that my local trust is seventeenth on the acute trust list, which is fantastic news and residents should be really assured by that, but there are also concerns about…”

“Moving on to workforce more broadly, when we had the 10-year health plan we were promised an NHS workforce plan to sit alongside it in the autumn. I am conscious that schools are back and pumpkin spice lattes seem to be everywhere again. Do we have a more accurate date as to when we can expect that?”

“Are we still expecting it this autumn?”

“In that plan, what can we expect to see that will allow the NHS to deliver on the 10-year health plan’s vision of a smaller NHS workforce that is treated better, trained better and has more opportunities?”

“What engagement have you had with staff and with the unions to work on that part of it?”