Results 1-20 of 3,132 for in the 'Commons debates' OR in the 'Westminster Hall debates' OR in the 'Lords debates' OR in the 'Northern Ireland Assembly debates' speaker:Norman Lamb
- Mental Health (16 May 2013)
Norman Lamb: I thank the shadow Minister for her contribution. I feel that this subject brings out the best in this place—we have had a well-informed, civilised and rational debate. There has been no political point scoring, just thoughtful concentration on an important subject, and I am grateful to all hon. Members. Before I come on to the contribution of my right hon. Friend the Member for Sutton...
- Mental Health (16 May 2013)
Norman Lamb: My right hon. Friend makes a very good point and I completely agree. The hon. Member for Romsey and Southampton North (Caroline Nokes) spoke again about eating disorders—I took part in a debate that she secured in Westminster Hall. She talked about the role of parents, the nightmare of a child—I will call them a child—over the age of 16 deciding to refuse treatment and the...
- Mental Health (16 May 2013)
Norman Lamb: Yes, I completely agree. This is about treating people as individuals, and with dignity and respect. Those things are important to people and they should be treated as such.
- Mental Health (16 May 2013)
Norman Lamb: I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his intervention. I was going to mention his contribution, even though I was not present to hear it, for which I apologise. As a Member of Parliament, concerns have been raised with me about the suitability of those tests for people with mental health problems, and I was going to suggest that I should talk to the appropriate Minister at the DWP. I am of...
- Mental Health (16 May 2013)
Norman Lamb: I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for reminding me that he, too, had made that point. I knew that someone else had talked about it, but I could not remember who it was. I take his point; I have heard it. My hon. Friend the Member for Southport (John Pugh) made a thoughtful speech in which he talked about reminiscences. Oh! He has gone! Even though it pains me, as a Norwich City supporter,...
- Mental Health (16 May 2013)
Norman Lamb: Yes, absolutely; I understand the importance of that. Incidentally, I visited children and adolescent services in Oxford and I was very impressed by the work under way there. I am getting a message that I am under some pressure from Mr Deputy Speaker to make some progress—
- Mental Health (16 May 2013)
Norman Lamb: I am sorry for putting the blame in the wrong place; I take full responsibility; I have tried to be responsive to Members as I have proceeded. We are working with NHS England to decide how best to measure progress in these areas. Because, as we all know, words are not enough, we have to be certain that the objectives we have set out on paper actually translate into better, more accessible...
- Mental Health (16 May 2013)
Norman Lamb: Very briefly.
- Mental Health (16 May 2013)
Norman Lamb: The hon. Gentleman has made some extremely good points. The Government are implementing a diversion service to ensure that, as far as possible, people are diverted from the criminal justice system and from prison if that is not where they should be. If they are suffering from mental health problems, they should ideally be given treatment rather than being locked up inappropriately in prison....
- Mental Health (16 May 2013)
Norman Lamb: I apologise that I came in halfway through the hon. Gentleman’s contribution, but he is making extremely serious points. I would be happy to talk further to him about the case after the debate.
- Mental Health (16 May 2013)
Norman Lamb: I pay tribute to the hon. Gentleman for the incredible contribution that he has made to this subject over the past year or so. It was encouraging to hear what he said about Mr Speaker’s actions, and I want to alert him to the fact that I am trying to get every Government Department to sign up to Time to Change, so that they can all make the commitment to be an exemplar. If we are...
- Mental Health (16 May 2013)
Norman Lamb: I pay tribute to the work my hon. Friend does on mental health, and the extent to which he argues the case for a fair share of resources and attention to be given to it. Does he agree that it is important for clinicians, who he was talking about earlier, to listen to loved ones and family members to hear their perspective? Of course there is the issue of confidentiality, but sometimes...
- Mental Health (16 May 2013)
Norman Lamb: The hon. Lady makes important points on people in the armed forces and veterans. Is she aware of Lord Adebowale’s valuable work and report on the link between police and mental health, which was published last week? It was commissioned by the police and dealt with how to improve the way in which they operate. It is good news that the police were prepared to commission Lord...
- Mental Health (16 May 2013)
Norman Lamb: I completely agree with my right hon. Friend. There is some very good practice, including RAID—rapid assessment interface and discharge—at Heartlands hospital in Birmingham, but there are too many places where there is a complete absence of such services. The starkest aspect of the lack of parity of esteem is that there is a good emergency service—it may be under pressure...
- Mental Health (16 May 2013)
Norman Lamb: We clearly need to understand the scale of the problem of access. It is a bit shocking that we do not know the figures across the country for the number of people waiting and how long they are waiting. The mandate of the commissioning board requires that it must establish that and then set access standards. That is really important work, because there is a legal obligation to seek to meet the...
- Health and Social Care (13 May 2013)
Norman Lamb: I thank hon. Members for their contributions to the debate. Despite all the knocks that Opposition Members like to give it, the NHS is performing remarkably well, with 3.3 million more out-patient appointments, more than 500,000 operations, 1.5 million more diagnostic tests, MRSA infections halved and record low numbers of people waiting more than a year for their operations—just 665...
- Health and Social Care (13 May 2013)
Norman Lamb: What I would say to the shadow Minister is that since 2010, 1 million extra people have visited A and E. These are real pressures and we all have to think about how we manage them. Surely the way to do that is to try to improve people’s care so that they avoid ending up there in the first place. Tomorrow I will announce a decisive shift towards integrated care, which will be part of a...
- Health and Social Care (13 May 2013)
Norman Lamb: I was coming on to pay tribute to the hon. Lady for the work she has done. I absolutely agree with her that we need to get this right. We have the juxtaposition of two Bills, dealing with children on the one hand and adult social care on the other. Earlier I made a commitment to meet the children’s Minister; I had an opportunity to speak to him briefly when he was in the Chamber...
- Health and Social Care (13 May 2013)
Norman Lamb: I disagree. We brought in Jennifer Dixon of the Nuffield Trust to advise on this matter. There will be ratings for specific services within hospitals to identify areas of great care, but the single rating will give the hospital the incentive to bring up to a proper standard those areas that are falling short, and that will be a good thing.
- Health and Social Care (13 May 2013)
Norman Lamb: I want to make some progress; I am conscious of the time. The Bill will introduce a single failure regime, so that, for the first time, a trust can be put into administration because of quality failure as well as financial failure. Until now, it has been only the finances that can put a trust into administration. This Government recognise that quality failure is just as important, if not more...