Results 1-6 of 6 for foundation hospital speaker:Crispin Blunt
- East Surrey Hospital (15 Jan 2008)
Crispin Blunt: The principal institution in the Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust is the East Surrey hospital in my constituency, hence the short title of this debate. It is a major NHS hospital, now serving some 450,000 people in Surrey and Sussex, which is more than three times the number it was designed to serve when it was built 20 years ago. Its location, which is adjacent to some of the busiest...
- East Surrey Hospital (15 Jan 2008)
Crispin Blunt: ...and the East Surrey Healthcare NHS Trust was not a marriage made in heaven. As in many such mergers, reorganisation was required to provide the best services throughout the new trust's two district hospital sites and its other sites, but the principal sites were at Crawley and in east Surrey south of Redhill. The trust's proposals for reorganisation were broadly supported by all local MPs....
- Sittings of the House (20 Nov 2003)
Mr Crispin Blunt: ...of the rebels winning, when it collapsed in short order. We observed the operations of the Labour Whips and others. Had the previous scale of the rebellion been sustained, the legislation on foundation hospitals would have been knocked back.
- Sittings of the House (20 Nov 2003)
Mr Crispin Blunt: Of course, one commends hon. Members on exercising their own judgment on issues like foundation hospitals or the right to trial by jury instead of adopting the views of the Executive. However, the real disaster is that Government Members who are not in the Executive have been party to shredding the House's ability to do its job properly, including even scrutinising legislation. I have served...
- Sittings of the House (20 Nov 2003)
Mr Crispin Blunt: ...should be passed on its merits, in the teeth of opposition from the Executive, because it would give hon. Members the opportunity to question the Executive about trial by jury on Monday and foundation hospitals and other health issues on Tuesday. I want to conclude by replying to the arguments advanced by the hon. Member for Middlesbrough about the role of the House of Lords and the...
- Sittings of the House (20 Nov 2003)
Mr Crispin Blunt: ...wrong-footed as the Department of Health by events down the Corridor. It would appear that the Department has sent out a press release saying how regrettable it is that Parliament has rejected foundation hospitals through the vote in the House of Commons being overturned by the vote in their lordships' House. The Department has also given instructions to NHS trusts as to what they should...