Speeches by Fenton-Glynn.

“We talk about bringing them hope; she also talked about a failure to measure and act on burnout. My background is in the GMC, and we used to do the national training survey, which gave us burnout stats by specialty. Obviously, emergency medicine was always really high. Is that something that this Government are going t…”

“Just quickly to clear up some stuff that came out of the last panel, Dr Rosie Benneyworth said that they are coming across quite common cases where concerns are raised but not acted on, to the point where people will then just stop raising concerns. Minister Smyth, I know the basic answer—that this is unacceptable—but,…”

“Will the hon. Lady give way?”

“Will she please give way?”

“In talking about the right to family life, the hon. Lady is talking not about the rights of the children, but about the rights of the abusers. If we start from the idea that an abuser has the right to contact their children, we end up with bad decisions. That is why, in the past 30 years, 67 children have died when con…”

“I echo the Prime Minister’s comments on Sarah Everard and the situation in the middle east. From the sound mixing desks made by Calrec in Hebden Bridge which brought the world its winter Olympics coverage, to the valves made by Blackhall Engineering in Brighouse which bring water to New York city, Calder Valley’s speci…”

“Q1. If he will list his official engagements for Wednesday 4 March.”

“No one should shed a tear for the Iranian leadership; this was a brutal and oppressive regime. However, there are other brutal and repressive regimes in the world. A brutal and oppressive regime is never, in and of itself, a reason to attack a country. Can the Prime Minister please assure me that any involvement of Bri…”

“Does it concern you that the vast majority of GLP-1s are pharmacy-prescribed, often online?”

“Dr McCullough, your evidence talked about better incentivising “clinician and patient participation” and moving to a “twin approach”. Could you tell us a bit more about that and what that support looks like in practice?”

“I will probably ask something similar of the next panel, when my questions are due. Yesterday, the new GP contracts were announced, including £1,000 in support—I will not call it a bonus—for referring people to weight loss programmes and £4,000 for prescription of GLP-1s. Is that learning the right lessons and do you t…”

“That’s my method.”

“The food system?”

“Yes, and people are seeing it more as a health condition, which may well be a positive.”

“In some ways—without wishing to put words in your mouth—it is not necessarily a bad thing that more people are coming to doctors and saying that they want to get hold of their weight management. It’s just that there is a bit of a trend forcing them down a particular route. Would that be fair to say or am I putting word…”

“But do you think that people just weren’t seeing obesity as a medicalised problem before, so now you are getting more people presenting for that reason?”

“Can I pause you there? That is a really interesting statistic. Is it because people simply weren’t presenting with obesity symptoms before?”

“Speaking of multidisciplinary teams, I am going to bring in the GP, Dr Stewart. Dr McCullough talked about smoking cessation and other things where multidisciplinary teams are working well. Drawing on the sort of things that you have seen in GP practices, are there good examples of how we could make the wraparound care…”

“You spoke about having a specialist in each hub, and we have heard that there is a need for that twin-track approach. How would that be properly delivered and what do you see it looking like? Is it about having a specialist in each community hub? Is it social prescribing? How do you see that twin-track approach being d…”

“We are talking about wraparound care, but if 90% of the prescriptions are happening outside the NHS system, as some evidence suggests, we are almost having a parallel conversation to the one that the public are having.”