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Bills Presented: Education and Health (19 Nov 2009)

Andrew Lansley: I am grateful to the Secretary of State for giving way, and I know precisely what he is consulting on. He is consulting on a right to die at home, but people need the ability to exercise choice in end-of-life care, including the right to choose to die in a hospice or, for some people, to die in hospital. The right to die at home is not the only choice. There are a range of choices, so why...

Bills Presented: Education and Health (19 Nov 2009)

Andrew Lansley: Carry on.

Bills Presented: Education and Health (19 Nov 2009)

Andrew Lansley: Now I can see the point that the Secretary of State was making. He suggests that our being in favour of maximum waiting times is the same thing as agreeing with his targets. It is not. We are in favour of patients having access to quality services. If a patient is admitted to hospital with a fractured neck or femur, 18 weeks is an irrelevance-they should be treated within 24 hours. If an...

Bills Presented: Education and Health (19 Nov 2009)

Andrew Lansley: What the Secretary of State is consulting on is the inclusion in the national constitution of a right phrased as follows: "You have the right to access services within maximum waiting times, or for the NHS to take all reasonable steps to offer you a range of alternative providers if this is not possible. The waiting times are described in the Handbook to the NHS Constitution." We support that.

Bills Presented: Education and Health (19 Nov 2009)

Andrew Lansley: I went to Burnley and met the chief executive of the local NHS trust. I also talked to the chief executive of the ambulance trust. They agreed that it was right to put the medical directors of the ambulance trust and the hospital trust together, to see whether there could be protocols that meant that someone in an ambulance could be taken to Blackburn for blue-light purposes if necessary, and...

Bills Presented: Education and Health (19 Nov 2009)

Andrew Lansley: Will the Secretary of State therefore explain why page 15 of his Green Paper says that most of the Government's options, apart from the pay-it-all-yourself option, involve "integrating disability benefits" into his proposed national care service? The effect of that is to take away cash benefits that people could have spent how they wished and put it into a service where they get what they are...

Bills Presented: Education and Health (19 Nov 2009) has video

Andrew Lansley: I am grateful to have the opportunity to respond to this interesting and, in many respects, good debate. My right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition, and the Prime Minister, at the start of their responses to the Gracious Speech, talked about the recent losses in Afghanistan. Last Sunday, Rifleman Andrew Fentiman, from my constituency, died in Helmand province, so is now among those...

Bills Presented: Education and Health (19 Nov 2009)

Andrew Lansley: My hon. Friend makes an important point. I remember talking to a consultant oncologist-working in bowel cancer, as it happened-who said that she was embarrassed at international meetings that her colleagues across the world had routine access to cetuximab to treat bowel cancer. She worked at one of the regional centres of excellence in this country, but every time she wanted to prescribe...

Bills Presented: Education and Health (19 Nov 2009)

Andrew Lansley: It may well be. One of the worst reasons for denying people access to health care services is as a result of the failures of management that have allowed deficits of that kind to build up. If it is the consequence of inequalities of access under the funding formula, we need a more independent and transparent process, as my hon. Friend the Member for Wycombe rightly said, by which resources...

Bills Presented: Education and Health (19 Nov 2009)

Andrew Lansley: Where is he now? I do not know. Perhaps he is somewhere in a corridor outside the Council of Ministers in Brussels-who knows? Three years ago, Tony Blair as Prime Minister said that there were drivers of reform in the national health service and that practice-based commissioning was going to be one of them. It stalled. The national clinical director for primary care at the Department of...

Written Answers — Health: Swine Flu: Vaccination (28 Oct 2009)

Andrew Lansley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what estimate his Department has made of likely take-up rates of swine influenza vaccine (a) amongst different age groups, (b) amongst people with different vulnerabilities to the illness and (c) by geographic area.

Written Answers — Health: NHS: Negligence (27 Oct 2009)

Andrew Lansley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the answer of 13 July 2009, Official Report, column 176W, on NHS: negligence, how much was spent in total on (a) claimant costs, (b) defence costs and (c) damages for (i) the closed claims in which claimant costs exceeded damages and (ii) all closed claims in each year.

Written Answers — Health: NHS: Negligence (27 Oct 2009)

Andrew Lansley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many unsuccessful clinical negligence claims were brought against the NHS in each year since 1997-98 for which figures are available; and how much unsuccessful claimants spent in (a) defence costs and (b) claimant costs in each year.

Written Answers — Health: Dental Services: EC Nationals (22 Oct 2009)

Andrew Lansley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what arrangements are in place to provide citizens of other EU countries with dental treatment if they are resident in the UK.

Written Answers — Health: Mental Health Services (22 Oct 2009)

Andrew Lansley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many people in England he estimates are waiting for access to psychological therapies; and what the average waiting time for such treatment is.

Written Answers — Health: NHS: Finance (22 Oct 2009)

Andrew Lansley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether (a) primary care trusts and (b) NHS trusts are required to make any financial returns to his Department other than those under the PFR3 and TFR3 data collections.

Written Answers — Health: Dental Services (21 Oct 2009)

Andrew Lansley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what percentage of dentists graduating from medical schools in England were not working in the NHS (a) three and (b) five years after qualification in each year since 1997 for which figures are available.