Results 1-20 of 50 for foundation hospital speaker:Evan Harris

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust (18 Mar 2009) has video

Evan Harris: ...the Secretary of State's predecessors and the hon. Member for Woodspring (Dr. Fox) that these political targets would result in clinical distortions. Does the right hon. Gentleman accept that this hospital was a three-star trust and a foundation hospital under his Government's target metrics? Surely he cannot simply blame the managers, when they were told that they would lose their jobs...

Post-doctoral Scientific Careers (10 Jan 2006)

Evan Harris: ...I take the opportunity to ask to meet with post-doctoral researchers on a group basis, without senior management or heads of department being present. Heads of department usually provide excellent hospitality on such visits and they tell us about their strategies and the progress that is being made, but, speaking as one who is particularly interested in the careers of scientists, I believe...

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

Dr Evan Harris: ...to the great deficiencies in the welfare food scheme. Many of the provisions should not and will not survive the Bill's passage through the House of Lords. The Government majority of only 35 on the foundation hospitals proposals shows that their policy is wounded as the Bill limps to the Lords. The policy is unloved by staff; the unions and professional staff oppose it. It is unloved by...

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

Dr Evan Harris: ...reward, of three-star status have any basis in clinical outcomes. I ask the Minister to provide that answer, because he has never done so before. The "Panorama" programme that focused on my local hospital in Oxford identified exactly how patients are put at risk by the imposition on managers of the need to meet these targets. The trauma surgeon Keith Willett, who works at the John...

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

Dr Evan Harris: ...for the proposal from both sides of the House, and the hon. Gentleman makes a very good point. It is impossible to secure the interests of patients simply through the efforts of those who run hospitals. That creates a conflict of interest, and with the best will in the world, those who try to exercise the dual roles of defending and supporting hospital management and representing the views...

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

Dr Evan Harris: ...arrangements are likely to be not only a parallel franchise, as I said, but a dog's breakfast. The Government's saying that they are simply going to leave the matter to the constitution of foundation trusts gives no comfort to those of us who think that it will be impossible to find a clear way out of this mess. In terms of foundation trust status, it seems that the Government's motto is:...

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

Dr Evan Harris: When the Government first proposed the establishment of foundation trusts, we examined their plans carefully and compared them with our own policies for NHS reform before considering the likely consequences. For reasons that I will give, we believe that the foundation trust policy is deeply flawed, and, having failed to secure key amendments in Committee, my colleagues and I will vote against...

Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill (Programme) (No. 2) (8 Jul 2003)

Dr Evan Harris: ...of his views on the programme motion. Part of the reason for our despair at the short time for the debate is that it is difficult to hold a proper and wide debate in Committee of issues such as foundation trusts when none of the Committee's members share the strongly held views of the Labour Members who have tabled so many of the amendments. All their concerns have to be expressed and all...

Oral Answers to Questions — Health: Foundation Hospitals (1 Jul 2003)

Dr Evan Harris: Should not foundation hospitals be accountable to the rest of the NHS for their borrowing powers? In the Standing Committee, the hon. Member for Birmingham, Hall Green (Mr. McCabe) put that point well. He said that we needed to know "whether the extra that the trusts can borrow comes off the NHS total. If it does, it suggests that there could be a preference for those trusts at the expense...

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

Dr Evan Harris: ...could be altered to fit local circumstances. That is not what she said. The hon. Gentleman gave me notice five weeks ago that he would raise this and I am prepared to put on the record that if foundation trusts become the only game in town—as with PFI, another policy whose introduction we might regret—in terms of improving services for local people, we will be prepared to...

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

Dr Evan Harris: I am not arguing that in buying, purchasing or commissioning a service from a private hospital, or anyone else, a trust would not be acting under the terms of its authorisation. I am going one step further—the record will show that I am clear on this. There may be problems with the quality of the service for an NHS trust that is not a foundation trust, or an independent hospital, during...

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

Dr Evan Harris: ...be grateful for an assurance that that point will be addressed. If it is not people will wonder why, when CHAI is keeping the regulator informed about the provision of health care by and for NHS foundation trusts and giving any other advice to the regulator on any matter connected with the provision of health care by or for an NHS foundation trust, the criteria that CHAI should be...

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

Dr Evan Harris: I will accept that point if the Minister will accept that in the first instance NHS foundation trusts will be three-star trusts, which generally do not have the capacity constraints or the cash constraints that lead them to fail in the star rating system. It is not the hospitals or trusts with the huge deficits that are the candidates for foundation hospitals. It is not those such as the...

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

Dr Evan Harris: ...on the ability to employ staff. It is a probing amendment. The Minister will know of the problems in obstetrics and gynaecology and the resulting litigation bill. The question was raised whether foundation hospitals would take on vicarious liability. At present, NHS trusts assume liability for actions undertaken by staff on behalf of the trust. The trust takes out insurance to cover the...

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

Dr Evan Harris: ...position and will be able to attract staff effectively because there is not an excess of staff at the moment and it will be some years before there is. They will attract their staff from other NHS hospitals that do not have either the flexibility on resources because the foundation trust has a different provider model, or which, even within the same model, are afflicted with historical...

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

Dr Evan Harris: ...of the country do not have at present. That is why many no-star trusts are made scapegoats. They perform badly because they have no capacity. They have the greatest difficulty in recruiting all hospital staff, especially nurses, and staff for the care home sector. The data is clear; the shortage of care workers is greatest in the south-east, in the social care sector and in the NHS. Until...

Public Bill Committee: Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill: Clause 17 - Financial powers (3 Jun 2003)

Dr Evan Harris: ...the hon. Member for Ealing, North (Mr. Pound) is going to make a contribution on those, I shall wait to hear him speak. The clause is interesting, because it defines how free, in borrowing terms, foundation trusts will be. We have generally taken the view that, if trusts are to have proper decentralisation and financial freedom, it seems wrong unnecessarily to limit their scope to borrow,...

Public Bill Committee: Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill: Clause 16 - Protection of property (3 Jun 2003)

Dr Evan Harris: The amendments address the important tension that exists between wanting both freedom for foundation trusts and a strategic oversight of the best use of property assets in the NHS. I understand the point that the hon. Member for Epsom and Ewell made. He wants to see the maximum amount of freedom with a predisposition—a default situation—wherein foundation trusts are free to make...

Public Bill Committee: Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill: Clause 16 - Protection of property (3 Jun 2003)

Dr Evan Harris: ...loved buildings, although that is an important factor. It is not necessarily the role of the regulator to always protect bricks and mortar. However, I am interested in the consultation outside the foundation trust about the best use of that NHS property, even if it is not necessary for the trust to use it for health services. What fate would be best in the context of the local NHS and the...

Public Bill Committee: Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill: Clause 11 - Power of Secretary of State to give financial assistance (22 May 2003)

Dr Evan Harris: Surely the Minister must recognise that one of the broader questions, which may not be particularly detailed, is whether the creation of foundation trusts is creating not only a two-tier system, but a two-tier system that is more unfair than the sort of ''tierism'' that one gets from allowing different providers and a mixed market. Will there be greater financial freedoms for foundation...