Member

I have not had an opportunity to sit down with the Minister. One of the things that worries me at the moment is that I can hear Wes Streeting, quite rightly, wanting to move large parts of the health service out of hospitals and into communities and get upstream in the prevention agenda. We have been leading that agenda for 30-odd years. We have 55,000 patients nowadays and we know quite a bit about it. That is the right direction of travel; they are in the right space. But it is one thing to want it and another thing to do it. That aspiration in the health service is not connected with this conversation we are having. I am trying to have a conversation with the Minister about this—we all need to have this conversation. There is a real opportunity to join the dots here, but can we please have the conversation?