Urgent and Emergency Care 2024-07-23
2024-07-23
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Q1
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The NHS is struggling with urgent and emergency care services, with one in four patients waiting longer than four hours in A&E.
What assessment has the Department made of the effectiveness of NHS urgent and emergency care services?
The latest data confirms the terrible state in which the Conservatives left urgent and emergency care services, with one in four patients waiting longer than four hours in A&E. Professor Lord Darzi will lead an investigation into NHS performance to inform a 10-year reform of the NHS.
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Assessment & feedback
Did not provide specific assessment or details on effectiveness but referenced general state and upcoming review.
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Q2
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Barts health NHS trust includes Newham University, Royal London, and Whipps Cross hospitals with high A&E volume and overcrowding.
Residents in my constituency are served by Barts health NHS trust. Will the Minister ask her Department to look at capacity issues at those hospitals and at how community pharmacy prescribing services may be used to alleviate some of the pressures?
My hon. Friend makes an excellent point about pharmacies: they will have a central role in our future system, but she should know that her Government allowed these situations to worsen.
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Did not address the specific request for capacity investigation or use of community pharmacies.
Criticising Previous Government
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Q3
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Essex has seen improvements in emergency care services, including the ambulance trust.
Will the Minister commit to meeting me and working with my right hon. Friend on looking at ways we can safeguard community services at St Peter's hospital in Maldon?
I welcome my right hon. Friend to her new role but she should also welcome our mission to rebuild the broken front door to the NHS and have more neighbourhood services based in communities, bringing those services together where patients are; that is absolutely what we all want.
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Did not commit to meeting or addressing community services at St Peter's Hospital directly.
Criticising Previous Government
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Q4
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The last Conservative Government made Telford the largest town without a fully functioning A&E.
Will the Health team meet me and other Shropshire MPs to discuss this discredited and disgraceful decision?
I welcome my hon. Friend to his place. He knows what we all know, and that is why we are committed to restoring standards and fixing this broken NHS.
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Did not commit to meeting or address specific issues in Telford.
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Q5
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The urgent treatment centre at the West Cornwall hospital in Penzance is now closed at night, putting pressure on Treliske emergency department with 20 ambulances parked outside.
Will the Minister meet me and colleagues and the local NHS to discuss this issue?
Again, across the country we see the damage done over the last 14 years. That is why we want a 10-year plan to look at this, an immediate look with Lord Darzi, and to understand which community and primary care services can be supported.
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Assessment & feedback
Did not commit to specific meeting but referenced general plans.
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