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- Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation (23 Mar 2004)
Mr Kenneth Clarke: ...and massive public spending increases would not produce value for money. To get proper value from public spending, reform is essential. The reform that has been applied, belatedly, has been confined to matters such as foundation hospitals and top-up fees. Those policies have been so messed about by political campaigning that they are valueless, or worse. The 40,000 civil servants are...
- Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill: Clause 1 — NHS Foundation Trusts (19 Nov 2003)
Mr Kenneth Clarke: ...to remind the Secretary of State, who appeared to believe the reply that he gave to my right hon. Friend the Member for North-West Hampshire (Sir George Young) about the effect of the financing of foundation hospitals on other hospitals, that that was not the view of his predecessor. When foundation hospitals were proposed, it was not the intention to cap capital spending. Borrowing was...
- Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill: Clause 1 — NHS foundation trusts (19 Nov 2003)
Mr Kenneth Clarke: ...Member for South Suffolk (Mr. Yeo) said, as I was the Minister of State who saved Tadworth Court and allowed it to go the private trust. It is a demonstration of how what was described as a failed hospital has now become a beacon of excellence because of the way in which an independent trust was able to develop it. We actually believe that with properly directed patient choice, a certain...
- NHS Trusts (4 Jul 1990)
Mr Kenneth Clarke: I well remember laying the foundation stone of the great new hospital in the middle of the hon. Gentleman's constituency. He arrived with a traditional demonstration carrying anti-poll-tax banners but discussing among themselves what the demonstration was about. In a field surrounding the hospital site, they concocted the extraordinary argument that it was a demonstration against the...
- General Practitioners (Contract) (5 May 1989)
Mr Kenneth Clarke: ...in surgery, health promotion clinics and for home visits. In recognition of the work that some GPs do elsewhere on health-related activities in the public service, for example in community hospitals, this commitment can be reduced to four days in individual cases subject to agreement with the family practitioner committee. The GMSC and I have always agreed that additional payments should...