Speeches by Smyth.

“I thank the Liberal Democrat representative for his comments—frankly, that is the way it is done. Let me turn to some of the issues that the hon. Gentleman raised. May I take the opportunity to mention endometriosis in particular? There have long been campaigns on that issue in this place from many women and men such a…”

“My hon. Friend is a fantastic champion in this area. We are so pleased to have her clinical experience and no day goes past without her representing her own speciality of physiotherapy and AHPs more generally. She is absolutely right that those professionals have led the way in looking at women’s care and it is importa…”

“Good managers are crucial to fixing our NHS, which is why the Government are backing managers and leaders with targeted investment. We will introduce professional standards for managers, establish a leadership college and implement mechanisms to prevent unsuitable individuals from holding senior NHS posts. Our workforc…”

“I was happy to announce the further expansion of CDCs this morning. We will continue to work to roll out these centres across the country. I am happy to discuss with the hon. Gentleman the proposals from his local ICB, if he wants to provide a bit more detail on that, as these centres are critical to getting down our w…”

“I welcome my hon. Friend’s question. She is absolutely right, and it is an area I worked on myself as a local NHS manager. It is crucial to have that link between health and local government. That will dictate most of the social determinants of health, as she well knows from her own expertise serving the population. Th…”

“Ophthalmology waiting lists have fallen since we have taken office. Average waiting times have reduced, and 18-week performance has improved. ICBs have the flexibility to commission services across specialties within a fixed financial envelope, and may use contract levers to manage that activity. That is good managemen…”

“These organisations play an important role. We are making sure that they are treated fairly, and are supported to play a bigger role. They will be supported by the forthcoming plan for voluntary, community and social enterprise spending targets to 2028, and a combined action plan for small and medium-sized enterprises …”

“I thank the right hon. Member for his question. I know he has raised it previously with the Leader of the House, and a similar issue has been raised with me by many hon. Members in his local geography. He knows that it would not be appropriate for me to comment on individual cases, but further to my comments about the …”

“I am not going to give way; I am going to get through these points. The safety and wellbeing of children and young people have always been the driving consideration in every decision we have made regarding this trial, and always will be. That is why the trial sponsor has paused recruiting until these issues can be reso…”

“Thank you, Mr Mundell. Dr Cass also recommended that we take forward the data linkage study as part of the wider national research programme. The linkage study is not a clinical trial, and as such it will not in and of itself provide the type of evidence that can demonstrate cause and effect for any particular treatmen…”

“I am not going to give way. Those services operate under a fundamentally different clinical model from the Tavistock clinic. Children and young people will get comprehensive, tailored assessment and support from multidisciplinary teams made up of experts in paediatrics, neurodiversity and mental health. Under this Gove…”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Mr Mundell. I thank the hon. Member for Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross (Jamie Stone) of the Petitions Committee for the way in which he introduced the debate. In his usual style, he made sure that he had talked to a range of people and experts to inform this debate…”

“That is about the left shift. That is writ large through all of this. To Sarah-Jane Marsh’s point, these are mainly elderly, very frail women who generally should not be there. That is support to primary care. I am also surprised about—we have been checking on this throughout both the last two winters—the support acros…”

“The commitment is to get that right by the end of the Parliament. I know that people in the outside world find it hard to define what “this” is, and we will get Sarah-Jane to go through that. That is why we are collecting and validating the data, and the aim is to have that publicly available by May. That is an importa…”

“Yes. Again, without leading us down other paths, although I am very happy to come back and talk about that, things like staff standards or things like, as I was this morning, developing the workforce plan—recognising that getting the right people in the right place—and GIRFT are so important. That does help with that. …”

“Yes, it is unacceptable. A lot of that, as we know, is around culture and making sure that people can and do do that, but it is also about then bringing in the solutions and making the staff a part of that. Again, that is a leadership issue locally—bringing those key clinical staff into solving the problem. As Professo…”

“That is a lovely question for me; thank you for that. This is a subject of much academic, clinical and managerial discussion, and I am going to lean into some of my colleagues—it is worthy of the time itself right now. I do remember that time. I was on a board of a primary care trust in Bristol during the noughties. Th…”

“Thank you, Chair. I was in the room for the last moments of the panel. We are very clear that this is unacceptable and that the word “normalised” should not be normalised. That is why the Secretary of State committed to seeing the end of this practice by the end of the current Parliament. The urgent and emergency care …”

“From my point of view, I think that is right. The framework is to support managers and bring forward, as we have done, a commitment to the leadership college around that. But the here and now is what the team at NHS England is doing, which is having clinical leaders talk to other clinical leaders about what can be done…”

“I can tell that I am not being very clear with you.”