Speeches by Fenton-Glynn.

“This issue appears to be yet another example of the hangover left by the previous Conservative Government. Does the Minister agree that part of getting the NHS back on its feet includes cleaning up this mess and cutting waiting lists, which have already dropped for five months in a row?”

“HIV/AIDS has killed 40 million people across the world and remains a major threat to public health, but over the weekend the House Foreign Affairs Committee Majority account posted a gloating, sickening tweet including an image of the coffin representing the closure of USAID, which, according to experts, will lead to a…”

“There is real fear among many of my Calder Valley constituents with disabilities and with caring responsibilities about the proposed changes to PIP, and that fear has been exacerbated by some of the reporting. Can the Minister please give me a categorical assurance that the consultation on these measures is genuine, an…”

“I will quickly shift to training. Health Education England was merged into NHS England about five years ago, so responsibility for staff training and education will now sit in the Department of Health and Social Care. To what extent is it appropriate for that to be delivered from the DHSC? Is there an argument for keep…”

“Moving on to the meat of my questions, the Secretary of State thinks that this process is going to take two years. How do we protect the frontline and the staff there from being distracted by the buffeting caused by the broader health service changes during that two-year process?”

“So the workforce plan should be regional workforce plans, not a national one?”

“I am going to focus on staffing, but before I start, I was listening to the discussion about how a lot that is done in the centre now should not necessarily be done by NHS England or the Department of Health. Quickly going along the panel, could you all name one thing currently done at the centre that you do not think …”

“Is that all registrants or new registrants?”

“If more care is to be delivered by SAS-level doctors, that is a different debate we need to have. I am conscious of time, because I am at the end of mine, but I want to go to Nicola—we were talking about medical training.”

“There is a huge reliance on IMGs in the system as well.”

“Professor Banfield, do you feel that centralised training with a broader look at the health service would be a better model?”

“I will now quote directly from you, Dr Banfield. You said that retaining appropriate expertise during the reorganisation will be vital to “the coming battle to mend the NHS.” What particular areas of expertise need to be retained in the central function?”

“Interestingly, when we spoke to Lord Darzi he said that often he had to threaten to FOI it before he could get some of the data out, so perhaps there is an openness challenge for the NHS. Having worked on a large health service-related survey in the past, I recognise some of that.”

“I will come on to training in a bit, but just to test that, you talk about not wanting interference, but I wonder where in your view accountability stops and interference starts.”

“Professor Dickson, in the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges you have a very broad view of quite a lot of different specialties. I would be interested in what impact you think the changes to the national body will have on the frontline, and how we can best protect the frontline from that.”

“To paraphrase, your suggestion is that generally staff will not be too worried about the broader reorganisation, but the drive to efficiency is something that you think is probably creating some anxiety?”

“One of the things that I most wanted to get across to the public when I worked at the GMC is that most care you receive in hospital is from some level of trainee.”

“Over 400 people have been killed, the majority of whom were children. Aid supplies have been blocked and aid workers killed, and the rhetoric from Israeli Ministers is getting worse. All this has happened under a ceasefire. I know these matters are complex, but at what point do we change our posture towards the Israeli…”

“I want to go back to the point about partners caring for each other and those circumstances, because this plays into the broader cost of not doing care properly. You talked about there being a significant impact on the health of the partner with the caring responsibility. In my experience as a cabinet member for social…”

“I just want to draw you back to this young carer who is down 181% or £502 a month. That is the starkest statistic. I am perhaps asking you to speculate again, but one of the biggest indicators of having a higher-percentile income in your later life is having it in your early career. Looking at the data that you have pr…”