Speeches by Hamilton.

“Thank you for that, Emily. Can I go straight to Anita and then ask the same of you, Oonagh?”

“I always do two points, so without all the explanation in between would be helpful.”

“Oonagh, a final word?”

“No, no—get it right. I haven’t seen her—it is written everywhere—but I do know her.”

“I am going to stop you there, because they give me a limited amount of time. Clearly it was not working, so what was done in its place to say, “Look, what we’ve always done, and what Julian Redhead is doing, is just not enough. This year, because it was such a bad year, we need to put something extra in.”? The one thin…”

“I am afraid that the Chair is going to stop me. When you start going off on a tangent, the Chair stops me.”

“Okay, go on.”

“Can I stop you there? You know how bad it has been this year. I am a great person with numbers. If there were two things you would like Government to hear, which you would like to see happen next year so that we do not end up where we have ended up this year, what would be those two things be?”

“I am going to hand back to the Chair. I did have a second question, but I went on. Thank you, Amanda.”

“Good morning, all. I am going to build up to my question because I think that gives context. I am talking about winter pressures. I have been following this for a number of months. Back in July, NHS England made it very clear that it had given trusts clarity over their finances for the winter, and it had given them £25…”

“Amanda, it was obvious—I am going to stop you there, because people do not understand this. If you are running a service and the outputs of the service go up by 3.5 times compared with the previous year, even though you made an agreement that that was what you would give, surely there must be something in place to allo…”

“I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Shrewsbury (Julia Buckley) for securing this important debate. Road safety is not just a policy issue but a matter of life or death, and one that affects all our communities, including Birmingham Erdington. Last October, a young driver in Erdington lost control and collided with a …”

“Go on then!”

“So as part of that you will be prioritising, with your benchmarking, things around backlog?”

“Finally, because I am out of time, you talked about bringing in chief inspectors. How are you going to benchmark this? The CQC did not go downhill overnight; it went down over a period of years. Covid and lockdown just exacerbated it. How will you benchmark that?”

“I would like to add that the CQC has been a respected regulator for many years, and people have loved what you have been trying to do, but in the last few years that has slipped. When you are looking at work with patients, service providers and staff, how do you plan to build that trust going forward?”

“Good morning. I want to concentrate on the concerns of the providers and the staff. The Dash report talked particularly about the increase in the time taken to carry out a reinspection of a provider after an inadequate rating, going from 87 days in 2015 to 136 days in 2024. For providers with a “requires improvement” r…”

“Thank you. I am going to move to you, Sir Julian. Now that you are in post, what are the two quick things that you would like to see happen to address the system backlog in registering, inspecting and reinspecting services? What are the two or three quick things you think you need to do as an organisation to start gett…”

“I thank the hon. Member for Wimbledon (Mr Kohler) for securing this important debate. As a nurse for 25 years and as co-chair of the all-party parliamentary group on hospice and end of life care, hospice and palliative care has always been at the heart of my work, both in this Chamber and in my community. I start by ac…”

“Unfortunately the last Government did not do that. They were very supportive, yes, but it did not get done. That is the slight difference we have now, with the review that is coming, if the sector absolutely gets behind Baroness Casey and says, “We need to see immediate action”—in my humble opinion.”