Speeches by Coleman.

“Thank you. Professor Mon-Williams.”

“I know that Penny Dash, who is now the head of NHS England, is very keen on data, data, data, and that seems to tie into what you are saying.”

“Data comes from different parts of the system, from health, social care, local councils and charities. Who is going to lead the process of bringing all that together?”

“Where does the platform sit? In the Department of Health and Social Care?”

“Thank you. I will take Mr Ginns and Professor Mon-Williams and finish with you, Professor Thapar.”

“How did you overcome the governance issues?”

“That is very helpful. The Government are bringing in a single identifier number, as you know, so I hope that will help.”

“We will cover different angles. That is really helpful.”

“I am grateful to my hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham Erdington (Paulette Hamilton) for her excellent speech and for securing the debate. I am quite excited about Saturday week, not just because it will be my birthday on 5 July—[Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.”] Thank you so much—but because the national health service …”

“A big thank you to my hon. Friend the Member for Dudley (Sonia Kumar) for securing this extremely important debate. I was fascinated and not a little shocked to hear that this is the first full debate in the Chamber on this subject, and it is absolutely tremendous that we are talking about it, because we need to. As ev…”

“I just want to clarify this. Minister, it sounds very encouraging. I am going to try to talk in non-ministerial language. I am getting the impression that when you came in, you saw how crap things were—data was not being collected; mortality is increasing generally; maternity services are decreasing in quality generall…”

“That is great. What I hear running through this is that we can do it and make it better if we want to. The question is how much society wants to. Obviously our Committee wants to make it better, but I will stop there for the moment.”

“Are there any examples of where that could be shown to be the case?”

“In the second session, my colleague, Dr Beccy Cooper, is going to look at that more with the Government, so to perhaps inform that part of the discussion, there is obviously a cost in collecting the data, but does having good data enable better outcomes and therefore save money, or am I just making a spurious argument …”

“I am sorry to interrupt you. It sounds brilliant. “Rapidly” is great. By when are you asking them to do this?”

“You have raised that, presumably, where you work. You have raised the need to collect better data. What sort of response have you received?”

“Patients do not trust you. Do medical professionals trust their patients?”

“Who does not trust whom?”

“Thank you all. It is great to see you all today. I should say that Janet and I know each other from the North West London ICS and from anti-racism health initiatives run in one of my local authorities as well—Hammersmith and Fulham, not Kensington and Chelsea. It is a great pleasure to see you all here today and thank …”

“If you have the training, which is great, you need the trust to take it up.”