Recently, it was the NHS’s 75th Birthday. I come from a big NHS family and a huge thank you to all who work in the NHS.
I spoke in Prime Ministers Questions and congratulated the Chelmsford medical students who have finished their courses and are about to be the first ever Essex student a to graduate as doctors. I would love to see our medical school double in size.
The PM was attending a special service to celebrate 75 years of the NHS, so today the deputy PM was answering.
I asked:
"As the child of two NHS doctors, the sister of an NHS doctor and the wife of an NHS doctor, may I, too, say thank you to everyone who works in our NHS? Will my right hon. Friend send particular congratulations to the students at the new medical school at Anglia Ruskin University in Chelmsford, who will graduate as doctors in a couple of weeks? This is the first time we have ever trained doctors in Essex, and it has been hugely successful. Will my right hon. Friend meet me to discuss doubling the size of our medical school?"
The Deputy Prime Minister replied: "I am very happy to offer my sincere congratulations to those students, who thoroughly deserve their graduation ceremony. I know what a difficult course is required for someone to qualify as a doctor. Health Ministers would be happy to meet my right hon. Friend to discuss exactly that proposal."
