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• Reference: 2002/0320-2
• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 11 December 2002

What is the Mayor doing to help tackle the recruitment and retention problems that exist within the NHS in London? .

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 11 December 2002

It's a great shame in my view. Dom you know what further health awareness campaigns the Mayor may have planned, following the "Saving Londoners" Lives' campaign that he did? That is one of the things he could consider.

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 11 December 2002

I'm on the scrutiny too, so I suppose I was saying what extra can one do, except talk and recommend? Is that the limit of it?

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 11 December 2002

I was just wondering what exactly can be done by the Mayor to address inequalities in primary health care provision across London. I am talking about things like healthy living centres and out of hours health centres. Should they not be available to all of Londoners, not just a few?

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 11 December 2002

Much to be done. On the housing issue - assuming the extra 50,000 nurses aren't all going to want their own homes, which would take up the Mayor's entire plan for affordable housing, what are you doing? Are you actually measuring the success regarding how many key workers from health go into the new housing that's theoretically coming on stream? How are you going to judge whether it's a success?

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 11 December 2002

I think that is important and whether it will come to the Health Committee to be looked at when the report is published, because otherwise you don't know if the money is being well spent. Can I move on to the skills issue and the issue around refugees who come to the country, amongst whom there is reckoned to be at least 1,000 potential doctors? I wondered if the Mayor had taken any steps to support requalification? There have been various schemes going. There's a scheme at the Institute of Community Health Services and a couple of other ones. Has...

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 11 December 2002

Has the Mayor put out a statement to that effect?

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 11 December 2002

Do you know if the Mayor has had any discussions with the Department of Health about the level of child vaccination in London?

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 11 December 2002

Would you know what he said then?

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 11 December 2002

What do you think about the possibility of detention for those who fail to take a course of treatment? That's been suggested by some public health professionals.