Sentences with phrase «health select committee»

PM's official spokeswoman rejects claim from senior members of health select committee that # 10bn figure is incorrect

Questioned by the Commons health select committee last week, Hunt admitted that a further deterioration in social care services would intensify the pressures on the NHS.

The Conservative MP talks to Sebastian Whale about her bid to be re-appointed as Health Select Committee chair

Health Select Committee chairman Stephen Dorrell considered the challenge of increasing demands upon the NHS:

The new Health Select Committee report calls for a Cabinet Office minister to be given specific responsibility for embedding health across all areas of Government policy.

Concerns raised by the Commons health select committee about data sharing between NHS Digital and the Home Office have also been ignored.

So far they include some of the usual suspects such as failed coup leader Grant Shapps, sacked minister Ed Vaizey and outspoken health select committee chair Sarah Wollaston.

The «bruising» reforms would push the health service to the limit, the Commons Health Select Committee warned.

However, the New Zealand Health Select Committee is now holding an inquiry on the issue of assisted dying.

The move, which is backed by the chair of the Commons health select committee, the Conservative Dr Sarah Wollaston, has also drawn support from midwives.

Former Conservative health secretary Stephen Dorrell, now the chair of the Commons» health select committee, acknowledged on the Today programme that Mr Cameron's decision to intervene was not completely rooted in policy.

Wollaston became chair of the Health Select Committee in 2014.

Talk of trolling in an interview earmarked to discuss the former GP's bid to be re-elected chair of the Health Select Committee marks something of a digression.

Today's recommendations come just weeks after the health select committee called on NHS Digital to stop sharing patients» data with the Home Office while a review into the policy is carried out.

Labour MP Kevin Barron, chairman of the Commons» health select committee, said the idea deserved consideration, however.

Stephen Dorrell moved from secretary of state to a successful chair of the Health Select Committee.

The chair of the Health Select Committee said she could not support the claim that the UK could get back # 350m per week from its EU budget contributions and spend the money on the health service.

Having worked in healthcare consultancy for McKinsey before becoming an MP, Whately «s first move in the Commons was to sit on the health select committee and she now chairs the All Party Parliamentary Group for Mental Health.

Sarah Wollaston, Tory chair of the Health Select Committee, said the plan «puts the interests of the advertising industry ahead of the interests of children».

He was a member of the Health Select Committee from 2001 until 2003, then serving as Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS) to Home Secretary David Blunkett until 2004, when he became PPS to Education Secretary Ruth Kelly.

Health Helen Whately Having worked in healthcare consultancy for McKinsey before becoming an MP, Whately «s first move in the Commons was to sit on the health select committee and she now chairs the All Party Parliamentary Group for Mental Health.

He served on the Health Select Committee.

Following his election to Parliament, Burnham was a member of the Health Select Committee from 2001 until 2003, when he was appointed Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS) to Home Secretary David Blunkett.

The Health Select Committee said that patients, regulators and NHS bosses must be able to see how many nurses were working every day and how that compared to the number that should be on duty.

Studies by the Audit Commission and the Commons Health Select Committee (on commissioning) point out that it has been useful, but no panacea.

The most important moment of the appearance of Sir David Nicholson, Chief Executive of the NHS, in front of the Health Select Committee this week has gone largely un-noticed.

I was adding a couple of additional attendees into the address bar when — and I have no idea how this happened — I copied in the email inbox for submissions to the health select committee.

«But someone, or some people, decided to suppress their publication and to bury them — hiding them even from the health select committee.

Stephen Dorrell, Chairman of the Health Select Committee, has argued convincingly that just about all of the necessary reforms could have been pursued without an Act of Parliament.

He also described the struggle for media attention: when the health select committee published its critical report, the press only wanted to speak to two Tories, David Lansley and committee Chair Stephen Dorrell.

Marissa's story is one of many that the health select committee heard that demonstrate the consequences of this ill - conceived arrangement.

They reiterated the words of Mike Farrar, Chief Executive of the NHS Confederation, who said last week to the Health Select Committee that elderly patients are clogging up NHS beds because cuts to council budgets meant they could not the care they needed at home.

The health select committee was right to point out that commissioning must involve a variety of clinicians.

Tony Blair's health adviser told the health select committee in January that the changes were what New Labour would have liked to have done, had they not encountered «road blocks».

Wollaston (pictured) continues as chair of the health select committee, after seeing off her only opponent, David Tredinnick, by 532 votes to 64.

But at a recent hearing of the health select committee we heard of the confusion that still exists about their replacement.

The health select committee has already weighed in with its proposed changes.

The health select committee today released its report on public expenditure on both the NHS and local authority provision of social care services - and challenged the government's optimism about the efficiency savings announced in the spending review.

He has been backed by Sarah Wollaston, Tory chair of the Commons health select committee, who called the industrial action «highly unsafe for patients».

In the end, however, just one Conservative MP, the chair of the health select committee Sarah Wollaston, voted with Labour.

Theresa May has rejected claims from senior members of the health select committee, including the Conservative chair, Dr Sarah Wollaston, that her government is misleading the public by saying it is putting # 10bn extra into the NHS.

Five MPs led by the Conservative Dr Sarah Wollaston, the chair of the Commons health select committee, have written to the chancellor demanding the government abandon its «incorrect» claims of putting # 10bn into the NHS annual budget by the end of this parliament and admit the severity of its financial shortage.

Conservative Chris Skidmore, who serves on the health select committee, said there had been «a lot of scaremongering» over claims of privatisation of the NHS in England.

Stephen Dorrell, the Tory chair of the health select committee, voice disapointment about the failure to meet the promise to legislate in this session of parliament on social care, with a promise only of a draft bill.

The Institute for Government's Hannah White asks what her election as the new Chair of the health select committee tells us about the way the system is changing.

Mental health services for children and adolescents in the UK are beset by «serious and deeply ingrained problems», according to a new report from the Health Select Committee.

The Commons health select committee has written to the head of NHS digital urging it to stop sharing patient data with the Home Office for immigration reasons.