Health and Social Care Committee
11 November 2026
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Health and Social Care Committee Actual start House of Commons
Follow its sittings16:16 - 16:37
Speaker 2
Order. Welcome to this one-off session of the Health and Social Care Select Committee, where we will be examining winter pressures, although they are now all year round, and I'm sure that will be reflected in the answers and the questions. Can we start please by our panelists introducing ourselves and telling us a little bit about what they do? Can we start with Ian, please?
16:37 - 17:03
Speaker 1
Thank you. So, I'm Dr. Ian Higginson. I'm a consultant in emergency medicine and pediatric emergency medicine, working in Plymouth.
But I'm here in my role as the president of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine. So, we represent now 16,000 experts in emergency care, both doctors and advanced practitioners. And we're the, basically, the experts in emergency care for the UK.
17:03 - 17:20
Speaker 3
Morning, everybody. Matthew Hopkins. I'm the acute and ambulance services network director at the NHS Alliance. For those that are less familiar, the NHS Alliance is recently formed from the merger of NHS Providers and NHS Confederation. We're a membership organisation.
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