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Orders of the Day — Gambling Bill (1 Nov 2004)

Mr Frank Field: ...they will get concessions from the Government severely limiting the number of super-casinos, the lessons of this Parliament teach them that they would not have got concessions on top-up fees or foundation hospitals. They may consider it a matter of principle that we vote for Second Reading, but we can argue with the Government and deal with the matter on Report.

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

Mr Frank Field: ...our midst. I make a plea as an ardent advocate of modernisation. We will succeed only by modernising, but I cannot for the life of me understand how it can be in our long-term interest to push more hospitals down the route of having to encourage more of our constituents to vote for various boards, especially given that some people who are sitting not far from me find it difficult to...

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

Mr Frank Field: ...increase the performance of this body that we have moved from behind our lines into political no man's land? Let us consider the Bill, and I ask my hon. Friends to examine one aspect of setting up foundation hospitals. Before the spring of next year, the larger hospitals must from nothing create an electorate. Some of them will be searching for up to 3 million voters. We can imagine the...

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

Mr Frank Field: If my hon. Friend will allow me, I will continue as this is the first opportunity that I have had to contribute. What will happen when we go to our local hospital to use it and look at the health side of its performance? Yesterday, I took my mother to St. Thomas's hospital. She had been some months before to see what was wrong with her heart. There was no follow-up appointment, so I phoned....

Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill: Clause 1 — NHS Foundation Trusts (8 Jul 2003)

Mr Frank Field: ...gentle with the Government. He talked about the additional cost each year for local authorities to keep their register of electors up to date—some £50 million. But we will not be asking foundation hospitals to use an existing body of electors. They have to start from scratch, so mega resources will go into trying to understand the legislation which we may or may not pass today,...

Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill: Clause 1 — NHS Foundation Trusts (8 Jul 2003)

Mr Frank Field: ...in the right direction, but we are worried about any possible disruption in the delivery of services between now and the next election." The amendments therefore propose the establishment of six foundation hospitals and six primary care trusts. New clause 34 lists who would carry out the evaluation and how they would report back to the Secretary of State and to us before there was any...

Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill (7 May 2003)

Mr Frank Field: ...funds." That excuse no longer holds, and it is in that new situation that the Government are trying to direct us in the Bill. The Prime Minister exaggerated just a little when he suggested that the foundation hospitals issue was similar to that of council house sales, but there was much truth in what he said. I was pleased that he said that council house sales were a Labour party issue; I...

Health and Social Services and Social Security Adjudications Bill [Lords] (17 Feb 1983)

Mr Frank Field: ...many of our constituents, this is where the shoe pinches. I am lucky, as is my local council, that in Birkenhead, thanks to the funds given by the Joseph Rountree charitable trust and the Gulbenkian foundation, a lawyer works with the Member of Parliament and the councillors. The lawyer has made a submission to the district health authority, and it is from that submission that I draw a...