Results 1-20 of 31 for foundation hospital speaker:Simon Burns

Written Answers — Health: Health Services: Per Capita Costs (27 Oct 2008)

Simon Burns: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much was spent per head on health services in (a) the Mid Essex Hospital Trust area, (b) the North Essex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust area and (c) England in the latest period for which figures are available.

Care Homes (7 Jan 2004)

Mr Simon Burns: ...were broken down and that the organisations worked seamlessly to provide a better service. I applaud the Government for doing that, just as I applaud the last Conservative Government for laying the foundations and starting the work. It is a good step forward and it must be continued. My concern, however, is that the Act that came into force last week will set back that good work, because...

Sittings of the House (20 Nov 2003)

Mr Simon Burns: ...if I reminded him that not only do Labour Members not have a mandate from the electorate, they do not have one from their own party because the Labour party conference rejected the whole concept of foundation hospitals in October?

Sittings of the House (20 Nov 2003)

Mr Simon Burns: With regard to the Bill dealing with foundation hospitals, will the hon. Gentleman bear it in mind that those policies were not in the Labour party manifesto, and they were rejected by the Labour party conference in October?

Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill: Schedule 13 — Repeals and Revocations (8 Jul 2003)

Mr Simon Burns: Not on foundation hospitals.

Public Bill Committee: Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill: New Schedule 1 - Amendments consequential on the (19 Jun 2003)

Mr Simon Burns: ...our second sitting, so many weeks and debates ago. It stands out like a beacon as a rare occasion of honesty and straightforwardness. When asked how an hon. Member can vote against the principle of foundation hospitals on the Floor of the House and then, within a week, tell the Committee that she supports her constituents' bid for foundation status in her constituency, the hon. Lady told...

Public Bill Committee: Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill: Clause 23 - Failing NHS foundation trusts (3 Jun 2003)

Mr Simon Burns: ...amendment No. 412 comes before the others, it is incidental to amendment No. 407, which is a probing amendment in one respect but which raises an important issue. Clause 23 refers to failing NHS foundation hospitals. Rightly, the Government recognise that this is not an ideal world and thus there may be circumstances in which a foundation trust fails and needs to be taken over. It would...

Public Bill Committee: Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill: Clause 18 - General powers (3 Jun 2003)

Mr Simon Burns: ...north-east of Westminster, and we as a community are just too far away from London to benefit from the London weighting allowance, although other parts of Essex to the south do benefit. My local hospitals of Broomfield and St. John's, in the Mid-Essex Hospital Services NHS trust area, have some extremely dedicated and first-rate staff, not simply consultants and doctors, but nurses and...

Public Bill Committee: Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill: Clause 14 - Authorised services (3 Jun 2003)

Mr Simon Burns: ...those circumstances this system will not allow those providers to go to the private sector to fill unused NHS capacity. Furthermore, that will lead to distortion. As an illustration, if an NHS foundation trust was to contemplate the purchase of a new MRI scanner, how could it do so on a joint venture basis? How will such joint venture purchases be achieved in the future? Would the...

Public Bill Committee: Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill: Clause 6 - Authorisation of NHS foundation trusts (20 May 2003)

Mr Simon Burns: Amendments Nos. 138 and 77 are broadly designed to accomplish the same thing in different parts of the Bill. As hon. Members know, foundation trusts can be given their powers and functions only by statute. If there is no specific power or function in statute, that trust will not have it. In the Library's useful research paper on the Bill, it makes that point and gives critical examples of...

Public Bill Committee: Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill: [Part II] (20 May 2003)

Mr Simon Burns: ...is somewhat flawed; that policy is, I suspect, being made up as the Government go along. The original intention, before the Government had a rebellion on their hands, was that only three-star hospitals would be able to apply and seek NHS foundation trust status. It was not intended that all hospitals would be able to do that within five years—that was a concession.

Public Bill Committee: Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill: Clause 4 - Application by NHS trusts (20 May 2003)

Mr Simon Burns: In the context of the two amendments tabled by my hon. Friends, there would be implications for Oxford's Nuffield hospital. Does the hon. Gentleman support the hospital's application for foundation status?

Public Bill Committee: Health and Social Care(Community Health and Standards) Bill: Clause 2 - Independent Regulator of NHS Foundation Trusts (20 May 2003)

Mr Simon Burns: Clause 1 and schedule 1 dealt with the critical issue of setting up foundation trusts. Clause 2 and schedule 2 lay out the equally important issue of the so-called independent regulator. I listened carefully to the arguments of my hon. Friend the Member for South Cambridgeshire in moving his amendment and found them attractive and convincing. His amendment and ours, Nos. 145 and 235 and, to...

Public Bill Committee: Health and Social Care(Community Health and Standards) Bill: Clause 2 - Independent Regulator of NHS Foundation Trusts (20 May 2003)

Mr Simon Burns: I am fascinated by the hon. Gentleman's description of the Government's approach to hospitals applying for foundation status as sham-elitist. Given that his opposition on principle to foundation hospitals is well known through his votes on Second Reading and through some of his comments on the amendments, does the hon. Gentleman support his constituents who are affected by the application of...

Public Bill Committee: Health and Social Care(Community Health and Standards) Bill: Clause 2 - Independent Regulator of NHS Foundation Trusts (20 May 2003)

Mr Simon Burns: In light of those comments, will the hon. Gentleman now tell the Committee whether he supports the Nuffield hospital's application for foundation hospital trust status?

Public Bill Committee: Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill: Schedule 1 - Constitution of public benefit corporations (15 May 2003)

Mr Simon Burns: ...to be appointed by a Primary Care Trust for which the corporation provides goods or services.'' I want it to state ''every'' PCT because I suspect that there will be more than one of them in every foundation hospital trust area. Whereas there might be co-operation between the PCTs, which will operate good practice and will agree on somebody, there might not be. If we are to draft good...

Public Bill Committee: Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill: Clause 1 - NHS foundation trusts (13 May 2003)

Mr Simon Burns: ...talked about the Government's thinking having evolved. Perhaps he will comment on the following statement: ''The PM has ordered Mr. Milburn to rename a draft Bill to enact his plans for new foundation hospitals . . . The Health Secretary has been told to rename the Health and Social Care (Foundation Companies) Bill amid fears it could derail the programme of reform. The word 'companies'...

Public Bill Committee: Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill: Schedule 1 - Constitution of public benefit corporations (13 May 2003)

Mr Simon Burns: I listened carefully to what the hon. Lady said. She referred to her local hospital, which was seeking foundation trust status. Given how she voted last week, will she be kind enough to tell the Committee whether she supports that application?

Public Bill Committee: Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill: Schedule 1 - Constitution of public benefit corporations (13 May 2003)

Mr Simon Burns: ...criteria that are an improvement on the vague position currently on offer. As my right hon. Friend the Member for North-West Hampshire said, the Health Committee, which produced its report on foundation hospitals last Wednesday before Second Reading, had many reservations about the vagueness of the proposals. I hope that the Minister would consider it an advantage—she may...

Public Bill Committee: Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill: Clause 1 - NHS foundation trusts (13 May 2003)

Mr Simon Burns: ...part of the reason for this probing amendment, and I also believe that because of the following statement: ''Tony Blair has slapped down Health Secretary Alan Milburn over his plans to rebrand NHS hospitals as 'companies.' The PM has ordered Mr. Milburn to rename a draft Bill to enact his plans for new foundation hospitals.'' That ironically falls in with the points that my hon. Friend...