It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Elliott. Before I start, let me pay tribute to the work of those in the NHS and social care services across England, who are delivering excellent care now and have done so throughout the pandemic. The country is rightly proud of each and every one of them. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Newton Abbot (Anne Marie Morris), who has been a champion not only for her constituency but, more widely, for the importance of improving health services in rural areas. I thank her for securing this important debate, and I pay tribute to her work and that of the APPG, whose report I read with interest. We recognise many challenges caused by rurality, including distinct health and care needs, access issues, distance, and ensuring a sufficient population to enable safe and sustainable services. We remain committed to improving health services in rural areas across all of England. The Health and Care Act 2022 embeds the principle of joint working at the heart of the system, promoting integration and allowing local areas flexibility to design services that are right for them. Integrated care boards and partnerships give local areas forums through which to design innovative care models, bring together health and social care, and prioritise resources aligning with individual area needs. We have set a framework but left it to individual areas to tailor these models to local needs. Local areas know better than Ministers how best to organise themselves and deliver the best possible care for patients. While we can support, guide, hold accountable, and occasionally chest prod, protecting local flexibility is important. Regarding resources, NHS England asked the Advisory Committee on Resource Allocation to consider a formula for allocations to integrated care boards, taking into account factors such as population, age, and deprivation. In 2019-20, we produced a new element of the formula recognising rural, coastal, and remote areas with older populations and complex health needs. We have opened five new medical schools in rural and coastal locations to address recruitment challenges, and hope that graduates from these schools will stay in their localities. We are using an extra £150 million for 1922-23 to address issues relating to ambulances, and I will take away the point about differential pay rates between blue light services. On backlogs, we understand recruitment challenges and will look at other measures to attract people to rural areas. We are opening new diagnostic centres but must also look at more. On community hospitals and doctors, my right hon. Friend the Member for Newark (Robert Jenrick) is delighted to meet Members to discuss these issues in great length. On data, it allows local integrated care boards to identify challenges and practices struggling. From November, we will publish practice-level data on appointments and missed appointments enabling patients to see how their tax money is being spent and holding the board accountable for modernising practices. Dentists are a real passion of mine; reforms put in place in July are starting to take effect, and more are expected as they come to fruition. I encourage Members to talk to their integrated care boards about what more can be done on centres for dental development.