Speeches by Fenton-Glynn.

“I am excited to hear that the hon. Member thinks work should pay. Can she tell us why, under the last Government, we went from one in three children in poverty having a parent in work to two in three children in poverty having a parent in work?”

“2. What recent discussions she has had with stakeholders on improvements to the Calder Valley train line.”

“Plans for a disabled access lift at Todmorden station were first announced in 2019, yet six years later we are still waiting, with no lifts, no date and no accountability. When I knocked on doors at the weekend, a disabled constituent said she can get in a lift to travel only in one direction, because the promised upgr…”

“What structural changes do you think we need for primary care to make opportunistic vaccination a bit more routine? In some ways, that builds on what you were saying about the resource we currently have in primary care.”

“I am going to move on from that very quickly. The vaccine strategy sets out an ambition to train and deploy a wider set of professionals to deliver vaccines. I would guess that also includes people such as health visitors, and so forth. What do we need to deliver that ambition?”

“A pilot started in January this year, and part of it is teaching them to have tricky conversations, so it is clearly something that is in train.”

“I quickly want to pick up on something Greg said in the last set of questions before I go on to my substantial questions. You said that the broader rollout would not be appropriate in peacetime, and I understand that. In my authority we used a large car park, and having people getting vaccinated and tested in a car par…”

“So more money to pharmacists?”

“If I keep talking, the Chair will have me.”

“I would say that the Venn diagram of church attenders and people who should be taking their flu vaccine is probably quite a closed circle, so there are a lot of those kinds of things. I can see you want to get in, Fin, but I have questions in another area, so I was just following up. I am really sorry. UKHSA recommende…”

“Can I interrupt you quickly? So when someone comes to get something else, you say, “Have you booked your vaccines yet?” Or do you just have a sign saying, “We offer the flu jab”?”

“This Tuesday would have been my brother Alex’s 54th birthday, but sadly we lost him to cancer last year. That is why I am really proud that this plan will revolutionise treatment, care and research into cancer, as well as focusing on rare cancers, such as the one that killed my brother. Although I pay tribute to the do…”

“I have taken the mickey with my time, so I will hand back to the Chair.”

“In some ways, the advantage that the NHS has over so many health systems is access to a wide variety of patients. We see that with some of the stuff that is in the cancer plan today. At the moment, as things stand, I am not sure that people feel fully confident that pilots will always have access to those patients. How…”

“One of my previous roles was at the GMC, looking at medical education. There is often a vast difference between trusts. Trusts in urban areas that were better funded and often in better-heeled areas would be more likely to be centres of innovation. Is it the case that we spend a lot of time innovating on the already he…”

“Can you define the key outcomes? There are patient outcomes such as a healthy or comfortable life. What are the other outcomes that you are looking at?”

“Moving to local variation, Kathy McLean, one of the stated aims of the Government is to use the NHS as an engine for growth. Part of that is about successful pilots and so forth. What efforts are ICBs making to be better recipients of that innovation?”

“What is your reaction to the experience of people such as Dr Kilcoyne in the first panel, who said that they do not have the tools and support to better scale up their project?”

“It is interesting that you mentioned the covid vaccine, because that was not done as a pilot. One of the reasons that worked really well there was that there was a clear need and then they rolled it out. I was a council cabinet member for social care at the time, so I saw that roll-out at first hand. It seemed to me ve…”

“The problem then is that you are not doing anything radically different, because you are just improving processes in places. If the model is not working, mental health being a good example, then you are not changing things.”