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Environment, Transport and Local and Devolved Government Affairs (25 Nov 2004)

Mrs Gwyneth Dunwoody: This Government have always accepted that transport is not only essential, but one of the foundations of an efficient and a growing economy. Because of the amounts of money that have gone into transport in the last seven years, noticeable changes are now taking place. I am sad to note, however, that the Queen's Speech is lacking some of the practical measures that we had rather hoped to see....

Foundation Hospitals (7 Jan 2003)

Mrs Gwyneth Dunwoody: Mr. Cook, I shall be extremely brief. I had intended to go on at considerable length, because foundation hospitals are probably one of the worst ideas that the Government have come up with, and that inspires an articulate response in me. We should congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for South Swindon (Ms Drown) on setting out, in considerable detail and very concisely, the objections to...

New NHS Resources (11 Dec 2002)

Mrs Gwyneth Dunwoody: ...to be setting up precisely the kind of division that will encourage that? Will he please accept that there is no legal way in which he can bind those trusts, and make it clear that creating such foundation hospitals will not only damage the interests of patients but will, in the final analysis, create a machinery that any incoming Conservative Government would use to privatise hospitals?

Regions, Transport and DEFRA (19 Nov 2002)

Mrs Gwyneth Dunwoody: ...to be discussed and proposed. Like the curate's egg, the Queen's Speech is good only in parts. It will come as no surprise to my right hon. and hon. Friends to learn that I view the proposal for foundation hospitals with unalloyed horror. I have no desire to go back 30 years. The idea is a throwback to the situation that existed in the national health service when I worked in it. That was...

Orders of the Day — Welfare State (8 Nov 1982)

Mrs Gwyneth Dunwoody: ...private medicine, is not immune and showing worrying signs of commercial malaise.In medical insurance the growth is there, but profits are being squeezed by ever-rising administration costs and the hospital and medical charges paid out in benefits. That newspaper also states that excessive charges by the independent, profit-motivated hospital developers and by suppliers of drugs and...

Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address: National Health Service (6 Nov 1981)

Mrs Gwyneth Dunwoody: ...it stated in very much stronger terms. The reality of two years of Conservative Government control of the National Health Service is that they have sought in every way possible to undermine its foundations. The Health Service is still the best way of providing health care for the people of this country. The reason is simple. By paying in taxation and by receiving service free at the point...

London Hospital Medical Schools (17 Mar 1981)

Mrs Gwyneth Dunwoody: ...the hon. Member for Paddington (Mr. Wheeler) for raising this subject because it is obvious that with the enormous pressure being put on medical care in the inner cities the closure of St. Mary's hospital medical school will be of enormous importance not only to the people who normally receive training in that school but to those who live in the area. I declare a mild interest, because a...