Speeches by Fenton-Glynn.

“What kind of exercise would you recommend?”

“We are talking a lot in healthcare about the three shifts. How would you make those three shifts work, in terms of shifts to prevention and to communities? What are the basic interventions into health that will help people to age better?”

“Just to make it clear, life expectancy for women in the most deprived decile is 77.6 years, with 50.5 years spent in good health, compared with the least deprived decile, which is 86 years, with 70 years spent in good health. Similarly, for men it is 72.5 years, with 50 years in good health. Meanwhile, preventable mort…”

“That will be a huge win if we get this right: a society without dementia. In your report, you talk about increasing the number of years lived in good health over increasing life expectancy. What would focusing on quality of years mean for how health and social care services are structured?”

“I beg your pardon—it is not an unchangeable trajectory. In other words, you can have an impact on it. Would you consider dementia a natural conclusion of ageing or a disease?”

“So if you say it is an unchangeable trajectory—”

“Sir Chris, in 2023 you produced your annual report on ageing. What did you hope to achieve by focusing on that topic?”

“I think that is particularly an issue in places people dream of retiring to—Devon, Cornwall, Yorkshire and so on. A particular issue for older people is dementia, which is the largest killer of women now. In your report you say that at the current rate there will be 1.4 million cases by 2040. You also say that 40% of d…”

“I want to speak in support of new clauses 10 and 11, which would place a duty on authorities to guarantee support for victims of domestic abuse, sexual violence and child criminal exploitation, as well as their care-givers. I am proud to support a Government who are committed to halving violence against women and girls…”

“And we have to see a method by which we are going to get a new generation of sexual health doctors.”

“In the NHS workforce plan, just to underline the point, we have to see more than 14 training places.”

“They would be working to a trainer who was elsewhere.”

“But this is a five-alarm fire, isn’t it? We are losing a third of the sexual health workforce and we have got 14 new training places this year. How ready are you to expand the training places?”

“Is that like CESR?”

“It simply does not sound like we have got the training places to replace them.”

“One third of sexual health doctors are planning on retiring in the next five years.”

“So six years from after foundation.”

“I want to come back to the question that Andrew asked about the sustainability of the workforce, Zara. How long is the training pathway for a doctor in your field?”

“Don’t let Richard do that.”

“It seems like an obvious recommendation—to give a test to new registrants at GPs.”