Health and Social Care Committee
4 November 2026
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Health and Social Care Committee House of Commons
Follow its sittings00:06 - 00:21
Speaker 3
Order. Welcome to this session of the Health and Social Care Select Committee where we will be looking at the work of the department. It's a delight to welcome the new Secretary of State, Yvette Cooper. Thank you for coming. And our dear friends now, Sir Jim Mackey and Sam Jones, thank you so much for joining us.
00:21 - 00:44
Speaker 2
I'll get right into it. Secretary of State, you've set out your priorities, so maternity is one and early years and children is the other. We've got our 10-year plan, and we've also got a Prime Minister who has put a lot of stock into social care. Are you making any tweaks to the 10-year plan to reflect your priorities, and what are they?
00:44 - 02:02
Speaker 4
Thank you, Chair. Thank you for having me. And it's actually 25 years since I last gave evidence to a health committee. So, thank you very much for having me back. It's a huge privilege for me to be back as Health Secretary in the health department, and for to be covering social care at a time which it is such a priority for the Prime Minister and his strong commitment to building a national care service.
Of course, we have been reviewing all of the work around the 10-year plan, around all of the work of the department over the last few months. And what I would say is I think the commitment to improving the performance of the NHS, the turnaround that we need to do after the deterioration of performance under previous governments, but also through COVID, is crucial. The three shifts set out in the NHS plan around the shift to prevention, to community services, and also to digital all remain as important as ever, but you are right: we are adding to this both the commitments to the national care service, and also the priority that I am giving to maternity and child health, cuz I just think it was getting lost, and we weren't putting enough priority on it.
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