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Lord Liddle (Lab)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 28 January 2025

Debate

New Hospital Programme Review

Contribution

My Lords, will my noble friend the Minister and the ministerial team at health accept my congratulations that they have had the courage to come up with a realistic programme, whereas what we had before was fantasy? This is very important. I read the Darzi report, and it has been clear that for years capital money has been used in order to fill revenue gaps at the end of the year because, basically, the whole system was underfunded. It is also clear that, as well as wanting to put the estate and buildings right, there is a tremendous need for investment in hospital equipment, scanners and all the rest in order to improve quickly the effectiveness of delivering good services to patients, and that the Government have to balance these pressures. It looks to me as though they are doing it right.

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