Speeches by Smyth.

“Yes. Again, without leading us down other paths, although I am very happy to come back and talk about that, things like staff standards or things like, as I was this morning, developing the workforce plan—recognising that getting the right people in the right place—and GIRFT are so important. That does help with that. …”

“That is about the left shift. That is writ large through all of this. To Sarah-Jane Marsh’s point, these are mainly elderly, very frail women who generally should not be there. That is support to primary care. I am also surprised about—we have been checking on this throughout both the last two winters—the support acros…”

“I am going to bring in my clinical colleagues here. I am going to be unusual here in saying that I am not sure about that one.”

“The 85% has been around for a long time. It has not been met for a very long time. That does demonstrate that it is about resilience and safety, and so on. That is why it has been there. It is about pressure, which is not good for staff or patients. Whether that is a helpful figure right now, in a changed system and as…”

“It is an important discussion. Overall, as I have said, it is about reducing pressure. As has been well outlined, nobody can continue to work and operate at that pressure—it is 95%-plus in some places. It is a good indicator. It is not acceptable for staff. As Mr Fenton-Glynn said, there is an issue around burnout. All…”

“I think it is. The workforce plan for the next 10 years, as we look forward, has to and will reflect the change in models. We are serious about the shifts. We think that is the way, and I do not think there is much disagreement about that. There will obviously be disagreement about every aspect of getting it done, but …”

“Look at the whole system, yes.”

“I thank my hon. Friend for her contribution. This issue warrants a longer debate, so that we can understand how to move the resources that exist. As we have heard this afternoon, when people are unnecessarily admitted to hospital, which is terribly distressing for them and their families, the resources follow them. It …”

“I thank my hon. Friend the Member for York Central (Rachael Maskell) for securing this important debate. We entered Parliament at the same time; we were immediately on opposite sides of the assisted dying debate, and we remain so. Although the Government are neutral, we have always articulated our concern around pallia…”

“I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Erith and Thamesmead (Ms Oppong-Asare) on securing this important debate. Baroness Merron, who leads on this work for the Department, and I are grateful to my hon. Friend for the conversations that she has been leading; for putting the spotlight on endometriosis, as well as …”

“My hon. Friend pre-empts my next paragraph; I thank him for his contribution. As part of the development of the MSF, we will be looking at some of the important aspects of care that my hon. Friend the Member for York Central mentioned, such as early identification of need, care delivered closer to home by integrated ge…”

“I will finish these points and answer some of the issues that have been raised. The first 120 neighbourhood health centres will be operational by 2030 and will, as we have heard, be delivered through a mixture of public and private partnerships. I thank the hon. Member for Carshalton and Wallington for being one of the…”

“No, I will not, because I want to get through my final comments. We put the new hospital programme on a sustainable footing. I understand that local people across the country were led up the garden path and told something was going to happen. I think we all recognise that the money was not there and that the programme …”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Western. I thank colleagues for their kind remarks about my hon. Friend the Member for West Lancashire (Ashley Dalton). We will miss her. She has set a great example, not only by continuing while undergoing cancer treatment but, as hon. Members have said, by recogni…”

“The Chancellor has made her key decision to put us back on track, announcing in the Budget that capital health spending would increase by £15.2 billion by the end of the spending review period in 2029-30.[Official Report, 16 March 2026; Vol. 782, c. 6WC.] (Correction) That funding will be used as intended; in previous …”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Dr Murrison. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Edmonton and Winchmore Hill (Kate Osamor) for securing the debate. I echo her comments about Mrs Thorn in the light of her husband Jack’s experience. My hon. Friend has worked diligently on behalf of her constituent. W…”

“My hon. Friend highlights an important point about the need to have further roll-outs of CDCs, particularly for communities such as hers. We are expanding those and expanding the time available for them. We are also expanding access through the front door through the NHS app and digital. Our new online hospital service…”

“I understand the issues that the hon. Gentleman and many other Members, such as my hon. Friend the Member for Great Grimsby and Cleethorpes (Melanie Onn), have raised in Grimsby and the Lincolnshire area. It is important that the clinical mapping for their new services is supported by clinicians and local people, and I…”

“My hon. Friend makes a really important point about how important DEXA scans are for osteoporosis, particularly for women. We have already expanded DEXA scans across the country this year; we have also allocated more capital funding for such capital investment, and we will announce the allocations in due course.”

“I am happy to discuss that issue with my hon. Friend. We are determined to have co-located UTCs; I know that that is a matter for the local commissioner, but I am happy to talk about it further.”