Results 1-8 of 8 for foundation hospital speaker:David Amess

Balanced and Sustainable Communities (23 Apr 2007)

David Amess: ...it has no money, so services were stopped on the 23 route connecting Belfairs to Tesco and Leigh Broadway, and Arriva stopped an evening and Sunday service along the route from Belfairs to Southend hospital and to the town centre. The main candidate for providing the necessary funds had until very recently been Tesco. The Minister will no doubt be intrigued by that. The initial...

Southend (Regeneration) (9 Oct 2006)

David Amess: ...gathering together the greatest number of people aged over 100, and the ageing population has increasingly put public services in the spotlight. We are very fortunate to have Southend University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, which is reaching all its clinical targets while balancing its books, but other areas, such as social services, are currently under desperate pressure. One problem...

Adjournment (Easter) (30 Mar 2006)

David Amess: ...are—one did not have much of a look in. My hon. Friends the Members for West Chelmsford and for Maldon and East Chelmsford (Mr. Whittingdale) have a very strong case as far as Broomfield hospital is concerned and I am sure that the excellent Minister who will be replying to the debate will get the right answer from the Department of Health. The Minister knows that I have raised on...

Department of Health (20 Mar 2006)

David Amess: ...or adopt cost cutting and contractions to come in on budget. I am fortunate enough to represent a constituency with a PCT that has managed to break even every year since its inception, and a hospital trust that has been able to carry forward large surpluses in the present financial year. However, I appreciate that I am in a minority of Members in that respect, and I have listened carefully...

Hospice Movement (13 Oct 2004)

Mr David Amess: .... Keri Thomas that patients had little real choice about how they would spend their last days. We were told that "though most of the final year of life is spent at home, most patients still die in hospital." Will the Minister address that in terms of the back-up service? Locally in Southend, we have a wonderful organisation called SPDNS, which is led by John and Rosalind Matty. They have...

Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill (7 May 2003)

Mr David Amess: ...watched presidential questions on the monitor in my room in the House of Commons, it was interesting to observe the body language between the Prime Minister and the Chancellor of the Exchequer when foundation hospitals were mentioned. It was clear that the Chancellor did not want anything whatever to do with the proposals. Of course, what we are seeing today is a complete charade—the...

Opposition Day: Hospital Waiting Lists (16 Jun 1998)

Mr David Amess: ...it open. The following year, it wished to remove the gynaecological section. I again did battle with the then Minister. That section is also still in my former constituency. I was proud to lay the foundation stone for the cancer unit and for the hospice in my former constituency. I am pleased now to be associated with the various services in my new constituency. It is wrong for Labour...

Prayers: Health Services (Basildon) (20 Oct 1989)

Mr David Amess: ...have this opportunity to talk about our most excellent National Health Service, especially the high quality of health care that we enjoy in our local district. The Minister visited one of our local hospitals not long ago I know how impressed he was with the staff and general provision of health care. The chairman of our health authority, Mrs. Joan Martin, is excellent and her work was...