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Andy Burnham: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many patients in England have been prescribed (a) benzodiazepines and (b) z-drugs for four months or longer in each of the last five years.
Lord Hunt of Kings Heath: ...all respect, those very SHAs that did not do this properly have been charged with communicating with the patients. I would like to press the Minister on the point that my right honourable friend Mr Andy Burnham made yesterday about the need for his department to be involved in personal communication to the individuals concerned. Alongside the question of the details, I ask the Minister...
Andy Burnham: The clause refers not only to “Any person” but one who “has done anything in the purported exercise of an approval function”. On both counts, it is incredibly widely drawn and could take us into the territory of other elements of the approval process that may have been defective. Will the Minister assure the Committee that the clause is as narrow as it needs to be? It seems to be...
Andy Burnham: We welcome the exercise being carried out by the NHS chief executive, but it is not the same as a personal communication to the individuals directly affected, so will the Secretary of State address the specific point of whether or not they will receive explanatory information from him or the Department?
Angela Eagle: ...to reassure us about the practicalities of a sudden switch to consider all stages of a Bill that has just this minute been published? In the words of my right hon. Friend the Member for Leigh (Andy Burnham), the shadow Secretary of State, we will be legislating tomorrow on something that the Government, or certainly we in this Parliament, have only found out about today. Will the Leader...
Andy Burnham: I thank the Secretary of State for his statement and for notice of it. Detaining people under the Mental Health Act raises the most serious issues of fundamental rights and of patient and public safety. Any reported failure will therefore always be a matter of the highest concern. I know this House will want to get to the bottom of the unacceptable breaches of procedure that we have just...
Andy Burnham: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many NHS patients participated in a clinical trial in each of the last five years.
Andy Burnham: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) how much funding he has allocated for NHS Change Day; (2) whether any external agencies are involved in the promotion of NHS Change Day.
Andy Burnham: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the cost to the public purse was of staff redundancies in each primary care trust area in 2011-12.
Andy Burnham: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what estimate he has made of the number of paramedics trained and equipped in the independent use of ketamine and midazolam.
Andy Burnham: May I welcome the Secretary of State and his new team to their positions? As the only other person to have made the jump from Culture to Health, I am sure that he will find me a constant source of useful advice. The Secretary of State has not said much since his appointment, but he did set out his mission in The Spectator: “I would like to be the person who safeguards Andrew Lansley’s...
Jeremy Hunt: The £12 billion increase in spending on the NHS under this Government, which the right hon. Member for Leigh (Andy Burnham) thought was irresponsible, means that we will be able to do a lot more for patients, but there is also rising demand. If we do not have that pay restraint, we will not be able to meet the needs of an ageing population.
Jeremy Hunt: ...the time constraints, but let me say first that we have seen a debate this evening that has shown this House at its very best. I want to pay particular tribute to the right hon. Member for Leigh (Andy Burnham) for his campaigning. It is true to say that without his decision, with the support of the hon. Member for Garston and Halewood (Maria Eagle), we would not be here today and justice...
Andy Burnham: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many midwives were employed in the NHS in each of the last five years; and what estimate he has made of the likely number of midwives in the NHS in each of the next three years.
Andy Burnham: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many nurses were recruited by the NHS in each of the last five years.
Andy Burnham: To ask the Secretary of State for Health when he plans to publish his Department's annual report and accounts for 2011-12.
Andy Burnham: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many NHS service reconfigurations he has referred from local health overview and scrutiny committees to the Independent Reconfiguration Panel since May 2010.
Andy Burnham: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the average salary was of an NHS (a) nurse, (b) midwife and (c) health visitor in (i) the latest period for which figures are available and (ii) each year since 1997.
Andy Burnham: To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether he plans to commission an evaluation of the first phase of the Any Qualified Provider programme.
Andy Burnham: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many incidents recorded in the National Patient Safety Agency's National Reporting and Learning System were classified as “never events” in each year since 2008.