Westminster Hall

16 juin 2026

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The Chair opens the Westminster Hall debate and Dr Roz Savage moves the motion, setting out the national context on community hospitals, preventable deaths, rural access and workforce pressures before detailing the specific situation at Cirencester, shortcomings in maternity services and five policy requests to the Minister on definition, funding and future role.

Chamber mar. 16 juin 2026 Début réel 10:15 House of Commons

15:25 - 15:32

Intervenant 1

Order. Good morning, everyone. I call Dr. Roz Savage to move the motion.

15:32 - 17:04

Intervenant 2

Thank you, Chair. It's a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, and I'm grateful to have secured this debate. I'd like to thank by begin, even, by thanking Jo Posnett and Dr. Helen Tucker from the Community Hospitals Association, who've been an enormous help in preparing for this debate. And I'd like to welcome Jo, who is here in the gallery with us today.

Last year, according to the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, around 15,860 patients died in NHS A&E departments in England while waiting for care that could have saved them. That's roughly 1,300 people every month, nearly 10 times the figure recorded in 2015. Every week, over 300 people died preventably simply because they waited too long.

Those numbers are shocking, but behind every number there is a real-life tragedy, and let's remember that human aspect throughout this debate. And I'm sure that I don't need to point out to colleagues that in rural areas the situation is often even more challenging. The ambulance takes longer to reach you, the journey to A&E is longer, and when a community hospital has been reduced to a limited number of services, as is happening in my constituency at the moment, there may be no early safety net to catch the patient before the crisis becomes a catastrophe.

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