Results 181–200 of 1228 for speaker:Heidi Alexander

Defending Public Services (23 May 2016)

Heidi Alexander: I am not going to be drawn into giving figures here at the Dispatch Box today. Yesterday the Life Sciences Minister was tweeting that we need a big public debate about funding of the NHS. Three days ago, the scale of this crisis was laid bare. NHS Improvement, the body responsible for overseeing hospitals, published figures showing that NHS trusts ended 2015-16 with a record £2.45 billion...

Defending Public Services (23 May 2016)

Heidi Alexander: I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for that intervention. I actually think that the health service benefits more from migrants than the amount migrants cost it. I want to tell all Conservative Members that Labour Members are not going to take any lessons about NHS spending from the party that has created the biggest black hole in NHS finances in history. It has got so bad that the...

Defending Public Services (23 May 2016)

Heidi Alexander: I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his intervention, but he will just have to watch this space. As I was saying, the truth is that the cash crisis in the NHS is the fault not of migrants, but of Ministers. Cuts to nurse training places during the last Parliament have created workforce shortages and led to a reliance on expensive agency staff. Cuts to social care have left older people...

Defending Public Services (23 May 2016)

Heidi Alexander: I would have thought better of the hon. Gentleman, but it is clear Conservative Members want to talk about anything other than their record in England. A&E performance is currently the worst since records began, taking us back to the bad old days of the 1980s, when patients were left waiting on trolleys in hospital corridors. The figures speak for themselves.

Defending Public Services (23 May 2016)

Heidi Alexander: From memory, I seem to think the budget going to the NHS in Wales has been cut in Westminster. Let us have a look at the figures. In March 2011—[Interruption.] The Health Secretary would do well to listen to these figures, because I am about to tell him the record of his term in office. In March 2011, 8,602 patients waited more than four hours on trolleys because no beds were available....

Defending Public Services (23 May 2016)

Heidi Alexander: Having had these exchanges over the Dispatch Box for the past nine months, it strikes me that the reality of what people are experiencing in hospitals is sometimes missing from these debates, and that is why I thought it important to quote from those letters. On workforce challenges, nothing sums up this Government’s failure on the NHS more than the way that they have treated NHS staff. We...

Defending Public Services (23 May 2016)

Heidi Alexander: My hon. Friend makes a good point, and motivated staff are essential to providing high-quality care.

Defending Public Services (23 May 2016)

Heidi Alexander: My hon. Friend is, as always, entirely right. The Government have run out of answers and they have run out of people to blame. Whichever way we look at it—funding, quality of care or staffing—theirs is a record of failure. That will be the Health Secretary’s legacy. He rightly said “Never again” to Mid Staffs, but his time in office has been marked by tragedy and failure at Southern...

Defending Public Services (23 May 2016)

Heidi Alexander: indicated dissent.

Junior Doctors Contract (19 May 2016)

Heidi Alexander: I start by putting on record our thanks to Sir Brendan Barber and ACAS for the role they have played in finding agreement between the two sides in this dispute. I also pay tribute to the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges, which proposed these further talks and encouraged both the Government and the BMA to pause and think about patients. I have not been shy in telling the Health Secretary what...

Oral Answers to Questions — Health: Agency Staffing Expenditure (10 May 2016)

Heidi Alexander: Spending on agency staff has gone through the roof under this Health Secretary, and the Secretary of State’s attempt to deal with the symptoms of the problem but not the cause has left hospitals struggling to get staff at rates they are allowed to pay. In the past few weeks we have seen reports of emergency surgery suspended in Doncaster, an A&E department downgraded in Chorley and two...

Oral Answers to Questions — Health: Agency Staffing Expenditure (10 May 2016)

Heidi Alexander: If I may turn to another part of the staffing crisis, all Opposition Members welcome the resumption of talks on the junior doctors contract. It is in no one’s interest—not the Government’s, not junior doctors’ and certainly not patients’—for this dispute to drag on any longer. May I implore the Health Secretary to do all he can to find a reasonable compromise this week that will...

Opposition Day: NHS Bursaries ( 4 May 2016)

Heidi Alexander: Does the Minister not accept, though, that healthcare students have very different characteristics from other students, and that their behaviour will not necessarily be same as that of students affected by the reforms in the last Parliament?

Opposition Day: NHS Bursaries ( 4 May 2016)

Heidi Alexander: Whenever I make suggestions, they’re just ignored.

Opposition Day: NHS Bursaries ( 4 May 2016)

Heidi Alexander: That’s just an assertion.

Opposition Day: NHS Bursaries ( 4 May 2016)

Heidi Alexander: The Minister has urged me to be careful with my words, which I was, and I recognise that he is being careful with his, too. He is talking about newly qualified nurses. Can he confirm what the average repayment would be for the average nurse?

Opposition Day: NHS Bursaries ( 4 May 2016)

Heidi Alexander: I beg to move, That this House recognises the contribution of student nurses, midwives, allied health professionals and other healthcare staff; has serious concerns about the potential impact of removing NHS bursaries on the recruitment and retention of staff; and calls on the Government to drop their plans to remove NHS bursaries and instead to consult on how they can best fund and support...

Opposition Day: NHS Bursaries ( 4 May 2016)

Heidi Alexander: Thank you, Mr Speaker. This is not the first time that the Health Secretary has chosen not to respond to debates that I have secured or questions that I have put. [Interruption.]

Opposition Day: NHS Bursaries ( 4 May 2016)

Heidi Alexander: Thank you, Mr Speaker. I will leave my comments on that matter there. In the past few months, Ministers and I have had a number of exchanges across the Dispatch Box about the unnecessary and dangerous fight the Government are picking with junior doctors. You might think that having totally alienated one section of the NHS workforce, Ministers would think twice about doing it again, but you...

Opposition Day: NHS Bursaries ( 4 May 2016)

Heidi Alexander: The Labour party has always made it clear that it would have given the NHS every penny it needs. Given the approach to healthcare students I have outlined, most people would think the Government had taken leave of their senses. They would be right.


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