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NHS prescription charges

Department of Health and Social Care

Written Ministerial Statements

The Prime Minister has announced that NHS prescription charges in England will be frozen for the first time in three years. This builds on wider government action as part of the Plan for Change...

2023 Agenda for Change Deal – Nonpay workstreams

Department of Health and Social Care

Written Ministerial Statements

Today I am updating the House on work underway to improve the working lives of NHS staff. The 2023 Agenda for Change (AfC) pay deal, agreed between the previous government and the NHS Staff...

Clinical Trials and the Health Data Research Service

Department of Health and Social Care

Written Ministerial Statements

Today I am updating the House on plans to create a new Health Data Research Service and fast-track the setup of clinical trials to accelerate the development of the medicines and therapies of the...

Mental Health: Expected Spend for 2025-26

Department of Health and Social Care

Written Ministerial Statements

Today I am publishing this third annual statement, following the one made in March 2024 by my predecessor. The Health and Care Act 2022 introduced a statutory requirement for the Government to...

Topical Questions

Health and Social Care

Wes Streeting made a speech in the House of Commons

I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his question, as it gives me the chance to pay tribute to the late great Baroness Jowell, as well as to the work taking place in her name through the Tessa...

Topical Questions

Health and Social Care

Wes Streeting made a speech in the House of Commons

I am grateful to my hon. Friend for raising these serious issues. There are issues of concern here, and she clearly describes a concerning situation for the local community. We need to look...

Topical Questions

Health and Social Care

Wes Streeting made a speech in the House of Commons

I am grateful to the hon. Member for all the work she has been doing on this issue. She is right: we need more integration of services, and we need to look at where we can share facilities to...

Topical Questions

Health and Social Care

Wes Streeting made a speech in the House of Commons

We are delighted to receive the hon. Gentleman’s representations. We will look carefully at the case he makes and will consider visits as diaries allow.

Topical Questions

Health and Social Care

Wes Streeting made a speech in the House of Commons

It was thanks to the decisions taken by the Chancellor in the Budget that we were able to award £889 million for general practice. That is why the Minister for Care was able to get the GP...

Topical Questions

Health and Social Care

Wes Streeting made a speech in the House of Commons

The irony! There is one big difference between what this Government are doing and what the Conservative party did for 14 years, which is that this Government will actually deliver a new Watford...

Topical Questions

Health and Social Care

Wes Streeting made a speech in the House of Commons

Despite the significant uplift announced by the Chancellor at the Budget, system financial returns during the planning round suggested an overspend for the coming year of between £5 billion...

Topical Questions

Health and Social Care

Wes Streeting made a speech in the House of Commons

The Chancellor took almost immediate action to deliver the uplift in pay for NHS staff that they deserve. We are working closely with the Royal College of Nursing, Unison and others ensure that...

Topical Questions

Health and Social Care

Wes Streeting made a speech in the House of Commons

Phase 1 of the Casey commission reports next year and the final Casey report is due by 2028, but the Chancellor has already announced an increase in funding for social care in the Budget, through...

Topical Questions

Health and Social Care

Wes Streeting made a speech in the House of Commons

As my hon. Friend says, we have brought NHS waiting lists down five months in a row, including during the peak winter pressures. We have delivered the 2 million more appointments we promised...

Topical Questions

Health and Social Care

Wes Streeting made a speech in the House of Commons

Baroness Casey will be making contact with all party groups in order to set dates with parties across this House very shortly, and of course she will be kicking off her commission in April, which...

Topical Questions

Health and Social Care

Wes Streeting made a speech in the House of Commons

I am sure that the whole House will want to send our condolences to the right hon. Gentleman following the loss of his father. It is good to see him back in action—if not always back in...

Topical Questions

Health and Social Care

Wes Streeting made a speech in the House of Commons

I am very sorry to hear of June’s experience. It illustrates why our determination to end the 8 am scramble for appointments is so necessary, starting with a new requirement for practices...

Topical Questions

Health and Social Care

Wes Streeting made a speech in the House of Commons

Since I reported to the House on the Government’s plans to abolish NHS England, hammering the final nail into the coffin of Lord Lansley’s disastrous 2012 reorganisation, the reforms...

NHS Waiting Lists

Health and Social Care

Wes Streeting made a speech in the House of Commons

Yes is the short answer. Removing the duplication, waste and efficiency that came with having two head offices for the NHS will lead to better, more effective and streamlined decision making, but...

NHS Waiting Lists

Health and Social Care

Wes Streeting made a speech in the House of Commons

That sounds like an invitation to commit a criminal offence, and I think I will resist the temptation. I am sure that the ICB has heard the hon. Gentleman’s forceful representations, and we...