Results 1-20 of 4,846 for (in the 'Commons debates' OR in the 'Westminster Hall debates' OR in the 'Lords debates' OR in the 'Northern Ireland Assembly debates') speaker:Andrew Lansley

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...

Opposition Day — [17th Allotted Day]: NHS Dentistry (14 Oct 2009) has video

Andrew Lansley: Will the Minister give way?

Opposition Day — [17th Allotted Day]: NHS Dentistry (14 Oct 2009) has video

Andrew Lansley: We have been very clear about our proposal and have made it before: a five-year tie-in for NHS, state-trained dentists so that they remain in the NHS. The Liberal Democrats agree with us, and it is practised in Scotland. Will Ministers agree with that proposal?

Opposition Day — [17th Allotted Day]: NHS Dentistry (14 Oct 2009) has video

Andrew Lansley: Will the Minister give way?

Opposition Day — [17th Allotted Day]: NHS Dentistry (14 Oct 2009) has video

Andrew Lansley: In my speech I made it very clear that we want people to have greater access to preventive care, and we have made it clear that we will allow people to visit dental hygienists without the requirement of a dentist's referral via a prescription. Will the Minister agree with that proposal?

Opposition Day — [17th Allotted Day]: NHS Dentistry (14 Oct 2009) has video

Andrew Lansley: Will the Minister give way on that point?

Opposition Day — [17th Allotted Day]: NHS Dentistry (14 Oct 2009) has video

Andrew Lansley: The Minister will know, not least from what my hon. Friend the Member for Mole Valley (Sir Paul Beresford) said, that there are Conservative Members who agree with the principle of fluoridation. However, the point is not that we should judge the evidence that suggests that it makes a positive contribution, but that the legislation makes it clear that there should be a process of public...

Opposition Day — [17th Allotted Day]: NHS Dentistry (14 Oct 2009) has video

Andrew Lansley: It should be.

Opposition Day — [17th Allotted Day]: NHS Dentistry (14 Oct 2009) has video

Andrew Lansley: We should have a referendum on it.

Opposition Day — [17th Allotted Day]: NHS Dentistry (14 Oct 2009) has video

Andrew Lansley: I beg to move, That this House supports maximising public access to NHS dentistry; notes that under the Government's new contract considerable numbers of patients now do not have access to an NHS dentist; believes the dental contract imposed by the Government is not adequately meeting its objectives for improving oral health or access to dentistry; recognises that any future contractual...

Opposition Day — [17th Allotted Day]: NHS Dentistry (14 Oct 2009) has video

Andrew Lansley: The hon. Gentleman must explain why nationally the number of dentists choosing to enter a direct contractual relationship with their PCT has fallen by 7 per cent. in the past year—it involves only 31.8 per cent. of dentists. I freely acknowledge that there are more dentists in this country than ever before, but that is not the point. The point is this: how many dentists are willing to...