Results 1-20 of 129 for foundation hospital speaker:Ben Bradshaw

Written Answers — Health: NHS: Public Participation (1 Jun 2009)

Ben Bradshaw: A written ministerial statement on Mid-Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust (FT) was issued on 30 April in response to the reports of the independent reviews undertaken by Professor Sir George Alberti and Dr. David Colin-Thomé. There is no legal requirement for board of directors meetings to be open to the public and there are no plans to bring forward legislation to compel them to do so....

Written Answers — Health: Patient Choice Schemes (1 Jun 2009)

Ben Bradshaw: ...National Patient Choice Survey is a series of surveys, conducted by Ipsos MORI on behalf of the Department. They monitor patient awareness of choice and recall of having been offered a choice of hospital for their first outpatient appointment. They were designed to provide a national overview of choice with summary results at PCT level (initially bi-monthly and now quarterly) and generally...

Opposition Day — [11th Allotted Day]: Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust (18 May 2009)

Ben Bradshaw: ...an amendment, to leave out from "House" to the end of the Question and add: "notes the independent report by the Healthcare Commission which identified severe failings at the Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust and the follow-up reports by the National Clinical Director for Emergency Care and the National Clinical Director for Primary Care which state that Stafford Hospital's accident...

Opposition Day — [11th Allotted Day]: Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust (18 May 2009)

Ben Bradshaw: ...accepted all the recommendations of both reports and have begun to implement them in full. In summary, the reports found that, first, significant improvements had already been made at Stafford hospital. Services in accident and emergency were now safe, but there was an urgent need to make further improvements to other services and to rebuild local confidence in the trust. Secondly, in the...

Opposition Day — [11th Allotted Day]: Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust (18 May 2009)

Ben Bradshaw: As my hon. Friend knows, Monitor has changed and made more robust its process for assessing candidates for foundation trust status. Even at the time, it considered quality of care. As she knows, the Healthcare Commission's announcement of a formal investigation came after foundation trust status had been granted to Stafford hospital. However, I will raise her concerns with Bill Moyes on her...

Opposition Day — [11th Allotted Day]: Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust (18 May 2009)

Ben Bradshaw: ..., which addresses some of the issues that he raises. The reports of both Dr. David Colin-Thomé and the Healthcare Commission were highly critical of the closed culture that operated at Stafford hospital. All NHS organisations must ensure that they operate in accordance with the current guidance, which promotes openness, transparency and accountability to their local populations. That...

Opposition Day — [11th Allotted Day]: Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust (18 May 2009)

Ben Bradshaw: ...believe that a public inquiry is necessary or desirable in this case, that absolutely makes the point for me. I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman. Martin Yeates, the former chief executive at the foundation trust, stepped down from his post on 3 March 2009. The interim chair of Mid Staffordshire, David Stone, subsequently suspended Mr. Yeates, pending an investigation. That investigation...

Written Answers — Health: Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust (18 May 2009)

Ben Bradshaw: ...continue to offer this service. More generally, the Department has reformed and strengthened the national health service complaints system from 1 April this year. This sets the expectation that hospitals need to do better at resolving complaints at the local level and, importantly, take appropriate action in the light of the outcome of a complaint. Information on complaints is already...

Written Answers — Health: Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust (14 May 2009)

Ben Bradshaw: ...organisations, whether temporary or substantive, are a local matter. The West Midlands Strategic Health Authority (SHA) has advised that the number of temporary nurses being used at Stafford Hospital fluctuates in line with the requirements of the Trust. The SHA has confirmed that at the start of week commencing 11 March 2009, 74 per cent. of the 39 shift vacancies had been filled by...

Written Answers — Health: Hospitals: Mobile Telephones (13 May 2009)

Ben Bradshaw: Information was collected on mobile phone usage policies from national health service trusts This information helped inform the Department's publication—Using mobile phones in NHS hospitals January 2009. The information requested is as follows. Barking, Havering and Redbridge Hospitals NHS Trust; Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Trust; Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust; East Sussex...

Oral Answers to Questions — Health: Topical Questions (12 May 2009) has video

Ben Bradshaw: I will happily look into the case that the hon. Gentleman raises. He will know that foundation trusts come under the remit of Monitor rather than the direct remit of the Department of Health. I would also point out the finances not only of his local hospital but of the NHS in general are in much better shape than they were even just three or four years ago.

Written Answers — Health: NHS: Ict (11 May 2009)

Ben Bradshaw: Lorenzo release 1.0 provides functionality for clinical documentation, and requests and results. Of the three Lorenzo release 1.0 early adopter sites, the University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS trust is currently using the radiology requests and results functionality in its general surgery and urology wards, and has begun making plans for its use for inpatient, outpatient, and accident and...

Written Answers — Health: Health Services (20 Apr 2009)

Ben Bradshaw: ..., as they may publish or be able to provide the information requested. There is no such national health service (NHS) organisation as North Staffordshire NHS Trust. However, there is the University Hospital of North Stafford NHS Trust or North Stafford NHS Primary Care Trust. The Healthcare Commission (HCC) ceased to exist on 31 March 2009 and was replaced by the Care Quality Commission...

Stafford Hospital (1 Apr 2009)

Ben Bradshaw: ...accident and emergency departments in the country were running their operations in the same disastrous way as Stafford. The Healthcare Commission has already said that it has rechecked all of those hospitals with what are called outlier hospitalised standard mortality rates, and is satisfied that they do not give cause for concern. NHS chief executive David Nicholson has also written to...

Written Ministerial Statements — Health: Integrated Care (1 Apr 2009)

Ben Bradshaw: ...Cambridge Assura Limited Liability Partnership Church View Medical Practice, Sunderland NHS Cumbria Durham Dales Integrated Care Organisation Nene Commissioning Community Interest Company Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Primary Care Trust NHS Norfolk and Norfolk County Council Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust North Cornwall Practice-Based...

Written Answers — Health: NHS: Bank Services (30 Mar 2009)

Ben Bradshaw: There were no strategic health authorities, primary care trusts or national health service trusts with any Exchequer funds (i.e. taxpayers' money) residing in Icelandic banks. Hammersmith Hospitals NHS Charities had £1.65 million of charitable funds deposited in the Icelandic bank, Kaupthing Singer and Friedlander. The Christie Hospital NHS Foundation Trust released a statement on 10...

Written Answers — Health: NHS: Bank Services (30 Mar 2009)

Ben Bradshaw: ...banks. There were no strategic health authorities (SHAs), primary care trusts (PCT) or NHS trusts with any Exchequer funds (i.e. taxpayers money) residing in Icelandic banks, although Hammersmith Hospitals NHS Charities had £1.65 million of charitable funds deposited in the Icelandic bank, Kaupthing Singer and Friedlander. In general, the large majority of cash balances held by NHS...

Written Answers — Health: NHS Bank (26 Mar 2009)

Ben Bradshaw: The NHS bank function no longer operates. The Department makes loans for capital investment to national health service trusts and NHS foundation trusts and to NHS trusts for working capital. Details of interest rates and interest paid to date on current loans by trust are given in the table. Interest payments are made to the Department and are available for spending elsewhere in the NHS. The...

Written Answers — Health: Hospitals (19 Mar 2009)

Ben Bradshaw: The information requested is shown in the following table. The list represents national health service sites that have university hospital or similar in their name. Organisation code Organisation Site code Site REM Aintree University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust REM21 University Hospital Aintree RTK Ashford and St. Peter's Hospitals NHS Trust RTK52 West Middlesex...

Health Inequalities — [Mr. Martyn Jones in the Chair] (18 Mar 2009)

Ben Bradshaw: ...mind if I do not? So many Members have made so many points about allocations, and I really want to get to the nub of the debate, rather than have yet another debate about Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust. The Conservative argument that this is about targets has been totally demolished, as well as denied by the independent Healthcare Commission itself. I hope that that satisfies him....