Speeches by Robertson.

“Finally, Professor Hawthorne, to the extent that GPs will play a central leadership role—I think that is a little unclear at the moment—or are intended to and will, what do the neighbourhood provider contracts need to contain to support you in filling that role?”

“The 10-year plan sets out a vision to continue to shift the role of community pharmacists towards more clinically focused roles. What support and training do you think is needed to support this shift?”

“It seems to me that retaining that sense of autonomy is going to be really important here. To what extent have practice managers been consulted?”

“What lessons can we learn from the additional roles reimbursement scheme about how to incentivise and finance multidisciplinary teams?”

“I will share my concern and then invite comments from others on the panel. The Health Secretary said that there is no reason that GPs cannot lead neighbourhoods. That is just a permissive comment rather than a mandatory comment. My concern is that there may be very uneven provision across the country. On the one hand, …”

“He also talked about one in three GP partners receiving more money than the Prime Minister. I can understand why Wes Streeting has been looking at the Prime Minister’s salary recently, but does that wider narrative really help build trust between the person at the top and the people who will be asked to deliver a lot o…”

“On the one hand, you have Stephen Kinnock describing GPs as the conductor of an orchestra. On the other hand, you have Wes Streeting likening going to the GP as going to the hairdressers. Do you think the Secretary of State respects and understands the role that GPs can play in this?”

“To follow on from that, Professor Hawthorne, are GPs clear on what their role will be in neighbourhoods?”

“It is a much more complex space though, is it not? It is more complex even in terms of things such as employment. In an acute setting, you are talking about the same employer, for example. When you are learning from a senior professional, they are employed by the same person. It is much more complicated within the comm…”

“Is that not therefore going to be an ongoing challenge, if we are looking to increase the posts in community settings? You have just described why people might prefer an acute setting in terms of their own career progression, daily experience or fulfilment from their work. Is not that going to be an ongoing problem?”

“It does not sound like that is necessarily going to change, in and of itself. One thing that does sound like it could make a difference is money, having more funding in that space.”

“The Secretary of State has failed to end industrial action like he said he would. How is that helping to reduce waiting lists?”

“My hon. Friend mentioned two key words: democratic accountability. That is fundamentally what underpins this issue, and it is a principle that we expect to apply to all forms of public transport—except ferries. I urge the Government to use this opportunity to create regulation and devolve it down. That way, they will n…”

“It absolutely does provide that incentive. I thank the shadow Minister for remarking on my tone; I have always tried to work with the Government on this matter. I acknowledge again that this is more than a campaign—it is a core issue for my constituents, and for constituents on the other side of the island that I share…”

“I draw attention to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests, in that I am a serving Isle of Wight councillor. I want to speak to new clause 48 in my name and new clause 39 in the name of my hon. Friend the Member for Gosport (Dame Caroline Dinenage). The two new clauses seek to do similar things. I tha…”

“Will my hon. Friend give way?”

“The hon. Member speaks very eloquently, and many of the issues that he is raising resonate with me and with my constituents on the Isle of Wight. We are being forced into a union with Hampshire, where 93% of the new electorate in the new combined authority will live and where some powers currently exercised by our unit…”

“My constituency is popular with tourists. In the spirit of the hon. Gentleman’s conversation with my hon. Friend the Member for Broxbourne (Lewis Cocking), I invite him to visit my constituency; I think he missed our Health and Social Care Committee visit last year. Airbnbs are a big challenge, and are detrimental to t…”

“The hon. Member is speaking about an important issue—that of utility companies seemingly closing roads without due consideration. Indeed, Southern Water tried to close the main road into Bembridge in my constituency from 1 December to 21 December; it did not consult with the local community, and only backed down after …”

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