Results 1-16 of 16 for foundation hospital speaker:Paul Burstow

Bill Presented: Christmas Adjournment (18 Dec 2008) has video

Paul Burstow: ...the basic state pension should be increased substantially. The Pensions Act 2008 aims to encourage private savings and to help those not in workplace schemes, but until the link to earnings is reintroduced, the foundation on which older people base their finances will be continuously eroded. A practical sign of the Government's commitment to encourage private savings would be to put in...

Better Healthcare Closer to Home Project (20 Mar 2007)

Paul Burstow: ...area. That decade of limbo has compromised improvements in services and undermined investment in the local NHS estate. In particular, it has delayed the long-overdue replacement of St. Helier hospital, which is in the constituency of my hon. Friend the Member for Carshalton and Wallington (Tom Brake). That hospital was conceived in the 1920s and built in the 1930s, and it is not fit for...

Written Answers — Health: NHS Foundation Trusts (9 Nov 2004)

Mr Paul Burstow: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) at which NHS Foundation trusts other than Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Monitor has notified his Department of financial difficulties; (2) when Monitor notified his Department about the financial difficulties at Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; (3) what information Monitor provides to his Department on a...

Clinical Services Review (South West London Health Authority) (18 Jun 2004)

Mr Paul Burstow: ...NHS trust to come forward with a set of plans that held together and would be viable. Yet we are still waiting, with out-of-date building stock. We are still waiting, in particular, for St. Helier hospital—which is almost ancient—to be replaced. One conclusion that I drew from yesterday's event in Addington is that it is almost universally accepted that, whatever happens, St....

Written Answers — Health: Foundation Hospitals (3 Mar 2004)

Mr Paul Burstow: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will estimate the cost of administration of the foundation hospital governance system.

Written Answers — Health: Foundation Status (5 Jan 2004)

Mr Paul Burstow: To ask the Secretary of State for Health which applicants for foundation hospital trust status have indicated to him that they are considering pulling out of the application process; and what reasons they have cited.

Written Answers — Health: Foundation Hospitals (16 Dec 2003)

Mr Paul Burstow: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what representations he has received from (a) foundation trust applicants and (b) other hospital staff concerning the impact of the new financial flows system on their stability.

Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill: Clause 1 — NHS Foundation Trusts (19 Nov 2003)

Mr Paul Burstow: ...this worry at any stage during the Bill's passage—that the Bill will not ensure equity, or safeguard universality, in the national health service. It will not require decisions about foundation trust status to take account of their impact on the rest of the NHS on such hospitals' patches. It will not prevent a foundation trust from adopting a predatory approach towards non-foundation...

Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill: Clause 1 — NHS foundation trusts (19 Nov 2003)

Mr Paul Burstow: ...House through the text and we will see how clear it is. I urge other hon. Members to take a view for themselves and to read the Bill. At the very least, I hope that the Government will concede that foundation trusts should clearly state in their accounts the costs and income attributable to private activity, because that will also not be covered. That is what Lords amendment No. 29 is all...

Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill: Clause 1 — NHS foundation trusts (19 Nov 2003)

Mr Paul Burstow: ...tick boxes stifle innovation and initiative in the NHS, and one size certainly does not fit the needs of every community and every individual who uses the NHS. However, we do not believe that the foundation trust proposals go anywhere near lifting the dead hand of control from the NHS. The freedoms that come with this Bill—they are not many, and some of them are illusory when the...

Public Bill Committee: Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill: Clause 49 - Introductory (10 Jun 2003)

Mr Paul Burstow: ...those in other care settings, such as nursing and residential homes. This issue was recently the subject of a critical report to Parliament by the health service ombudsman, and it goes back to the foundation of the NHS. How the line is drawn between health and social care responsibilities is a concern. Today's debate is not about whether the Government should fund personal care; it is...

Public Bill Committee: Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill (5 Jun 2003)

Mr Paul Burstow: I seek clarification about the relationship between a foundation hospital is to be regulated by CHAI and a co-located private hospital. Who will register the private hospital? If services are being purchased by the foundation trust, will CHAI be doing two different things? I want to understand how the relationship works between the private hospital that provides services to a foundation...

Public Bill Committee: Health and Social Care: Clause 36 - The Commission for Healthcare Audit and Inspection (4 Jun 2003)

Mr Paul Burstow: ...conducting its business. In some respects, part 2 constitutes a more important and long-standing change to health and social care in this country than what we have debated so far in Committee, as foundation hospitals will be regulated through the structure that it provides. The whole of the NHS, private health care and social care will be dealt with by part 2. It is an important lever for...

Written Answers — Health: Foundation Hospitals (26 Feb 2003)

Mr Paul Burstow: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will make it his policy to ensure that foundation hospitals cannot disestablish modern matron posts.

Orders of the Day — Business of the House: Earnings from Which Pension Derived (3 Apr 2000)

Mr Paul Burstow: ...their lives to avoid the linking rules that disqualify them from entitlement to invalid care allowance. They also have to bear in mind that if the person whom they are caring for is admitted to hospital unexpectedly, their eligibility and entitlement to invalid care allowance will also be jeopardised, thus risking the loss of a whole year's contribution to the state second pension....

Community Care (18 Mar 1998)

Mr Paul Burstow: ...because of bed blocking, cost shunting and buck passing. The consequence is that elderly people are funnelled into inappropriate institutionalised care. The report said: The pressure on expensive hospital beds and the use of nursing and residential homes is making it hard to free up resources for alternative services that might start to ease the situation. The number of older people being...