Speeches by McIntyre.

“Roughly, what percentage of that 1,000 had interim orders placed on their licence to practise?”

“We would be interested to see the data on where third parties are involved, the numbers for that and who is responsible, because we would be very happy to take that up with other third parties. The numbers I have in front of me show that, at Q2 2024-25, 760 cases had been open for more than a year. We have established …”

“We can come to that in a moment, but I am particularly interested in the interim orders for now. Do you have a rough percentage on that? I appreciate that you might not have the specific figures, but anecdotally, what percentage of the 1,000 who are investigated have interim orders placed on them?”

“Presumably, though, we cannot have a situation in which we have serious concerns about a clinician. We also know, in the modern world, clinicians practise across various different sites at various different times, with varying communications at times where they are operating at one trust, but have a private practice el…”

“If you could please write to the Committee with the details.”

“Last Friday, I went on a visit to my fantastic local GP service, Hadwen Health. The team there are already using technology and AI to make sure patients get the right care that they need, but they told me that there is currently no technological solution that allows patients to both be triaged and directed to their har…”

“Thank you. To return to my last question, how do bereavement and other support services fit in with the modern service framework?”

“I think one of my colleagues will come on to the workforce later in the session. To move on slightly, how do you see bereavement and other support services for families, loved ones and carers fitting into the framework for palliative care going forward?”

“Sorry to interrupt, but presumably, if someone has an advance care plan in place, they will have been identified fairly early, yet they are still not being provided with the service intended. So what is the gap there? We can fall back on commissioning, but if they are advanced enough to have an advance care plan, they …”

“Moving on to death literacy, the panel found in its report that society generally has quite low levels of it, meaning that there is very limited understanding and—as my wife will attest to—a reluctance to engage in conversations about death and dying. Is this an area that the Government are planning to do any work on?”

“Moving on to advance care plans, the expert panel found that, even when advance care plans were in place, people were often unable to access their preferred services due to limited resources or inflexible clinical pathways. What are your visions for the future of advance care planning?”

“I must have a bit of amnesia in the new year, because I cannot seem to recall any circumstances in which the shadow Secretary of State raised in the House the 143 abscondments that happened on his Government’s watch—perhaps it is only when a leadership bid is in the offing that he cares about this issue. Will the Minis…”

“A happy new year to you and your team, Mr Speaker. I welcome the Minister’s commitment to closing the Tory asylum hotel in Gloucester by the end of this Parliament. I have raised with him in the past the plight of families who live next door to that hotel, who are having to deal with an increase in antisocial behaviour…”

“Let’s move on to industrial action. Before we come to the BMA, I will start with the longest ongoing strike in NHS history now—the phlebotomists in Gloucestershire. What steps are you and the Department taking to resolve that dispute so we can get the phlebotomists back into work, where they want to be.”

“Thank you. I am going to hand over to Paulette because she has a question on maternity before I come back in.”

“Thank you. Moving on to the subject of the day, we have heard a lot about the strikes in the media and the decision by the BMA to go on strike. To push you on a slightly different angle, what steps are you taking to try to resolve the strikes even at this late stage? Also, what steps are you taking as a Department to p…”

“On that taskforce, can I make a request? I recently met one of the brave whistleblowers who spoke out in the BBC “Panorama” documentary about Gloucestershire Royal hospital and the maternity failings there. To be quite honest, they were shut out from the internal investigations into what has gone wrong, and they were n…”

“I will turn to the maternity review being undertaken by Baroness Amos. Sadly, her initial findings will be all too familiar for Gloucester residents. The ones I have met told me about mothers being sat in bloody bed sheets without being changed and often not being listened to by their doctors, and sadly we have lost ba…”

“Before entering the House, I was an employment solicitor, and I saw the impact that judicial mediation had in our employment tribunals. Will the Minister agree to meet me to discuss the role that expanding judicial mediation could have in bringing down the backlog in our employment tribunals?”

“I thank the Secretary of State for his statement. Gloucester residents are rightly worried about the rising flu levels. I was struck down a few weeks ago and can attest to how tough the current strain is. Does he agree that in this context it is reckless of the BMA to be taking its members out on strike, and will he ca…”