Speeches by Hamilton.

“I am going to follow on from Greg. We held a number of roundtables a few weeks ago. I am sure you would agree that health professional training is absolutely key, but a number of the people at the roundtable felt that that was lacking. Many of them felt that health professionals’ knowledge of weight management was very…”

“Dr McCullough, you have literally come in ahead of me, because my last point is that I believe it is not holistic enough. You have got some phenomenal pharmacists out there, and there are some excellent practice nurses and others. How could the system be more joined up? I will start with you, Dr McCullough, and then Dr…”

“Dr Stewart, I will go back to the Government lens. What role do you feel the Government have in supporting healthcare professionals to have more effective and evidence-based conversations with their patients?”

“Before I move on to Kath, I should say that I am struggling with all this because I have been reading everywhere, and in the notes, that obesity is definitely like diabetes—it is a problem. Doctors probably see more obese people than people that are not living with obesity, so why is it not seen as a priority to at lea…”

“That is a very good point. My next question follows on from that: do you think that Government have a role in this? Should we be legislating that more needs to be done, or should it be done through an ICB lens—or just through the NHS? Where should the pressure come from?”

“I am no longer a nurse; I am a retired nurse, but I was a nurse for many years. I never had any training or guidance on the subject. I know GLP-1s have just come out—in the last 12 to 18 months they have become the big new thing—but this is about more than just the GP. Across the health service there seems to be a prob…”

“Can I butt in there? It is not just GPs.”

“I will go to you, Dr McCullough.”

“Good morning. Before I start, I have to declare an interest. I have met and worked quite closely with John through the sickle cell stuff that I have done. I have worked in sickle cell and I have also led the sickle cell voluntary service in Birmingham, chairing it. I have a lot of history in the area, and that is how m…”

“You are clearly saying that you do not want ICBs taking over the funding.”

“My final point is that, if there was a way forward that you would like this Committee to recommend to the NHS to help scale up these pilots, what would that recommendation be? I am only looking for one recommendation, so I am going to be awkward.”

“I have known you a while and I am going to beg to differ. What happens is you get the money, you go away to do that piece of work, hoping that it will be rolled out and, while you are doing that work, it is out of the spotlight, as happened in Birmingham, as you saw. Then things deteriorate and the money is removed. I …”

“Do you not think that the doing something about it was finding some money at the back of a drawer, shutting you up, putting you in a corner and then doing nothing with it?”

“Good morning. My next question is a really interesting one. How much influence do you think media attention in these areas and pressure on Ministers and MPs had on these projects being launched in the first place? Has it just been used as a sticking plaster?”

“Do you feel that these projects are ever going to be rolled out, Jennifer?”

“For it to be funded by the integrated care boards, what was the evaluation process like for them to say, “We are now going to take this on”?”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Mr Dowd. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Derby South (Baggy Shanker) for securing this important debate. In my constituency, our local town centres are the beating heart of community life. Whether that is Erdington High Street, Slade Road, or Kingstanding shopping p…”

“My hon. Friend is passionate about the administration of vaccinations, and he has asked quite a lot of questions. I absolutely agree with them all, but I will focus on his questions relating to health visitors and to having more of a strategy on vaccinations. I hope that everybody present has read the report, which sta…”

“My hon. Friend raises a crucial point. These services are just not joined up. We have got young children who, from birth to two and a half years old, are not getting the health services they need. They then go into the education system and are falling behind. The strategy is just not appropriate, as has been highlighte…”

“I thank my hon. Friend for all the hard work she put into this report. It could not have been achieved without everybody on the team working so diligently. Family hubs are an incredibly valuable resource, and they deal with all the issues that she raises. The problem is that we just have not got enough of them. One per…”