Results 1-7 of 7 for foundation hospital speaker:Bob Blizzard

Opposition Day — [18th Allotted Day]: NHS Workforce and Service Development (11 Oct 2006)

Bob Blizzard: No; I have given way twice. I am absolutely confident that our hospital will remain a first-class district general, and I will not accept scare stories spread in this House. The hospital is high quality because it has met every target set for it ahead of time: 100 per cent. of people do not wait six months or more; 100 per cent. of cancer patients are seen in two weeks; 100 per cent. of those...

NHS Reorganisation (7 Feb 2006)

Bob Blizzard: ..., including deprivation factors and health inequalities. They are both very different from their respective counties, from which they are relatively isolated. We share the same general hospital—the James Paget hospital, a three-star trust that is about to achieve foundation status. We have a natural health economy; the two PCTs have for some time undertaken joint working on cancer...

Orthopaedic Surgery (2 Nov 2005)

Bob Blizzard: ...medical futures innovation award, and we will know tomorrow night whether he has won. He deserves to win, because he is a hero of the NHS. Full credit, however, must also be given to the James Paget hospital, its management led by David Hill, and its board led by John Hemming. It is a top-performing three-star hospital with no deficit, which has always met all its targets and which will...

Democratic Republic of Congo (7 Dec 2004)

Mr Bob Blizzard: ...furiously bailed water from our canoe. Nevertheless, I would not have missed that visit for anything. I am grateful to Mark Pallis of the all-party group for his organisational work, the Rainforest Foundation and Greenpeace for sponsoring that part of the visit and also for the hospitality and support that we received from Her Majesty's Ambassador to the Democratic Republic of the Congo in...

Public Bill Committee: Licensing Bill [Lords]: Schedule 1 - Provision of regulated entertainment (3 Apr 2003)

Mr Bob Blizzard: My hon. Friend the Minister has made it clear that if a hospital trust puts on an event to raise revenue for the trust—that could happen more and more with foundation hospitals—the event would be licensable. However, an event could be put on by friends of a hospital to raise money for some sort of charitable activity that was incidental, although still connected, to the hospital...

Health and Pensions (14 Nov 2002)

Mr Bob Blizzard: Where foundation hospitals are operating in the way described by my right hon. Friend, fully accountable and responsive to local communities through the ballot box, will money from the Department of Health go to them directly rather than through local primary care trusts? Would that not make foundation hospitals more accountable to the community than PCTs?

Prayers: Adjournment (Summer) (29 Jul 1998)

Mr Bob Blizzard: ...the Human Tissue Act 1961, but we do not have a national skin bank and that is one of the deficiencies of our health service. We do, however, have one purpose-built skin bank, at Queen Mary's hospital, Roehampton—the Stephen Kirby skin bank. It is the only dedicated establishment in Britain where skin can be retrieved, treated and stored. Its very existence is the result of a...