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Baroness Merron: ...’ House. First, this is not a new issue. The term “associate” is one that these professions have used for many years in their education, training and deployment within the NHS. It pre-dates the decision to bring them into regulation. Just like doctors, PAs and AAs are responsible for clearly communicating who they are and what their role is in the team. I take on board the points...
Baroness Merron: ...that: “The most recently published data which measures progress against” government targets in the national maternity safety ambition “coincided with the COVID-19 pandemic and is out of date”. The Minister also said in his written reply that: “The Department is working to increase the frequency and timeliness of publications”. I am sure the whole House would agree that that...
Baroness Merron: ...and autism in inappropriate settings. As has been said not just today but on a number of occasions, the Government had promised to tackle this shocking ongoing scandal through the reform of the outdated and discriminatory Mental Health Act 1983, yet that was nowhere to be seen in the King’s Speech, which was the last opportunity for this Government to bring this much-needed reform...
Baroness Merron: ...of their letter was stark and bears reflection. According to it, the NHS has insufficient resources to do its job, fewer beds than almost all similar countries’ services, equipment that is out of date and inadequate, buildings that are falling down, and inadequate IT systems to do the job. It does not have enough staff, so people’s needs are not being met, whether they are patients on...
Baroness Merron: To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Markham on 17 July (HL8936), when updated guidance will be available from NHS England; how the "transformation" of adult eating disorder (AED) services will be defined and its effectiveness assessed; and by what date integrated care systems will be expected to have transformed AED services.
Baroness Merron: ...human beings exposed to abhorrent and horrific material. This amendment may not be perfect, but it will, we hope, encourage the Government to take this issue more seriously than they have done to date. The Minister will be aware that, in view of the Government’s response thus far, I am minded to test the opinion of the House on this amendment. I beg to move.
Baroness Merron: ...of intentions, the government amendments still leave some areas that are as yet unresolved, particularly on sharing images with others: matters such as revenge porn and sending unwanted pictures on dating apps. There are areas still to be explored. The Minister and the Justice Minister said in a letter that, when parliamentary time allows, there will be a broader package of offences being...
Baroness Merron: To ask His Majesty's Government what is the expected timeframe for homecare medicines providers to resolve complaints made by people receiving homecare medicines in England from the date the complaint is raised.
Baroness Merron: My Lords, I heard the Minister say that the White Paper would be published in a few weeks. Every time your Lordships’ House has asked about the date, we have found it shelved repeatedly, leaving ever more people being sucked in without appropriate protections being in place. After a decade of broken promises and giving in to vested interests when things get tough, does the Minister accept...
Baroness Merron: ...and stakeholders see the timelines? How comprehensive will the plan be and, most importantly of all, will it be costed and fully funded? It really is time that we had some answers and some concrete dates for publication. The two pillars of health and social care are inextricably linked. Social care is not just an add-on to NHS workforce needs, as we see from these alarming figures: there...
Baroness Merron: ..., with patients waiting longer than ever in A&E, stroke and heart attack victims waiting an hour for an ambulance and some 378,000 patients waiting more than a year for an operation. Those figures date back to the summer—before we even get to the winter and the challenges winter always brings. At the time of the Statement, the NHS Confederation’s verdict was that “these measures will...
Baroness Merron: ...the commissioning of a review by Ministers only to see those same Ministers drag their feet on implementing the recommendations or shelve them completely. Will the Minister give us today a firm date for when he intends to publish the plan to implement the seven recommendations? The social care survey from the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services shows that more than 500,000...
Baroness Merron: .... This should not be happening in our country in 2022. Who could not have been moved and uplifted by the gathering of campaigners in Trafalgar Square which took place just last Friday, on the same date that the UK Government officially recognised BSL in 2003? It was also the day when MPs backed the proposed legislation on Report and at Third Reading in another place. The noble Baroness,...
Baroness Merron: ...effect of GMPs. She asked the Minister whether the Government planned to issue any further guidance and support to pension schemes in the light of that judgment. In a letter following that debate dated 11 March 2021, the Minister said that the Government had published guidance on the method for equalising pensions for the effect of GMPs and did not think anything further was needed. Will...
Baroness Merron: ...the challenges we all face in supporting good health. Government Amendments 249 and 252 would allow the Secretary of State to delay the implementation of these restrictions beyond their planned date of 1 January 2023, as a number of noble Lords have already said. I understand the intention of these amendments and appreciate the need to ensure that technical guidance is complete ahead of...