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Baroness Winterton of Doncaster (Lab)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 21 January 2025

Debate

Health and Social Care: Winter Update

Contribution

My Lords, my noble friend the Minister has just reiterated what the Statement said—that one of the key levers for easing winter pressures is NHS reform, particularly moving some hospital services into the community, which could deal with some of the issues raised by the noble Baroness, Lady Brinton, including X-rays, scans, tests and so on. Does she agree that this will require close collaboration between NHS trusts, hospital trusts, local authorities, ICBs and, sometimes, the private sector? Will she work with Ministers in other departments, not only to remove any obstacles there might be to this but to actively encourage it to happen at the local level? By the way, there are some good examples in South Yorkshire of this happening, and proposals for it to happen.

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