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MP questions Secretary of State about reconfiguration
25 May 2007

Speaking in a House of Commons debate about the record of the Secretary of State for Health, Mid Sussex MP Nicholas Soames said:

Mr. Nicholas Soames (Mid-Sussex) (Con): The debate is not about national health service nurses, who do a magnificent job; it is about the right hon. Lady and the great misfortunes that she has brought to the health service. Will she consider the real worries of the constituents of Members in all parts of the House in south-east England, where reconfigurations are proving impossible? They are taking so long that they cannot even be brought forward. The right hon. Lady should understand that the motion is directed not against the nurses, but against her stewardship of the NHS.

 

On May 31st, Mid Sussex MP Nicholas Soames received the following answer to a ministerial question about the impact of population growth on local health services:

Nicholas Soames: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will make an assessment of the effect of recent trends in immigration on the delivery of (a) maternity and (b) accident and emergency services in West Sussex

Minister of State: It is for local primary care trusts in conjunction with other stakeholders to make assessments of current and future health needs and to commission services accordingly