nations there has been the facing of a different rise of covert infections as well as illnesses and all the while recovering from the directs of the pandemic and now an energy crisis. and in an inflation busting uplift is vital to getting health systems back into good shape, enabling them to get through this winter and support those in need. it s been estimated that the cost of living crisis will add 3.7 billion a year to the cost of social care alone with far higher rises across the nhs generally, so how does the minister to justify her government s prioritisation of bankers and tax cuts for the rich when investing in public services is more essential than ever and will the health secretary support the snp s the health secretary support the snp s call for an nhs uplift greater than inflation? well, i d like to thank the honourable gentleman again for his welcome here, and as an example, one of the benefits the uk is we can learn from each other even
it is not the fault of successive conservative secretary of state that every time they come forward with the plan the queues get longer, nhs asked for more resources and more and more people have to be imported from abroad. the last example of collective planning and socially central control and targets like today, it doesn t work. we ll be conservative secretary of state have an open mind to looking at the social insurance systems of france, germany, italy? the health outcomes in these countries are far superior than ours. people are fed up with paying all their life and being at the end of the queue. it should not be the rich only that can access private health care. i understand wh m private health care. i understand why my right private health care. i understand why my right honourable - private health care. i understand why my right honourable friend | private health care. i understand - why my right honourable friend makes the point, recognising that many other countries in eur
both short, medium and long term to address this disgraceful situation? i set out in the plan today about what we could do with dentist and first of all i think it is the role of the local nhs and the icb to be taking responsibility and i expect them to do so and i think it is also a case of making sure that the contract that i was alluding to earlier, we started to make changes, admittedly only recently where instead of it being more profitable for a dentist to do nhs care on things like extraction or cleaning of teeth rather than some of the more corrugated elements, we need to make sure that more dentists are offering that nhs provision. i think there were further features that in a dental practice, making sure that people who are qualified, to use
them to the full extent of their qualification in order to undertake particular sorts of procedures. for example, you will have people who aren t full dentists but are trained as technicians and they can be trained to take care of children and there are different levels where we need to go into detail but i think practice by practice, i will have to work with the nhs locally a lot more in order to avail people of that opportunity. in order to avail people of that opportunity- in order to avail people of that opportunity. in order to avail people of that ouortuni . , ., ., ., , opportunity. obviously we have many colleaaues opportunity. obviously we have many colleagues who opportunity. obviously we have many colleagues who want opportunity. obviously we have many colleagues who want to opportunity. obviously we have many colleagues who want to contribute . opportunity. obviously we have many colleagues who want to contribute to | colleagues who want to contribute to this state
into the care sector and that is a joint endeavour. into the care sector and that is a joint endeavour. i welcome the our lad to joint endeavour. i welcome the our lady to her joint endeavour. i welcome the our lady to her new joint endeavour. i welcome the our lady to her new post joint endeavour. i welcome the our lady to her new post and joint endeavour. i welcome the our lady to her new post and for - joint endeavour. i welcome the our lady to her new post and for her i lady to her new post and for her statement and i welcome the social care discharge fund, but as she knows, the problems of under capacity in the care sector which filters through to the whole nhs are not just a winter crisis, they are filters through to the whole nhs are notjust a winter crisis, they are a chronic problem and to that end, can i urge her to take seriously a suggestion from the leaders of the care sector which i know is on her desk at the moment, that something equivalent to the teach first sy