Results 1-20 of 23 for foundation hospital speaker:Patricia Hewitt

Business of the House: Modernising Medical Careers (24 May 2007)

Patricia Hewitt: ...to say that offers for the extended first round of specialist recruitment will start today. Interviews for the current round should be completed by the end of this month and all initial offers for hospital specialties will be made locally by the postgraduate deaneries between now and 7 June. Successful candidates might receive more than one offer. They will be able to wait until all their...

Business of the House: Modernising Medical Careers (24 May 2007)

Patricia Hewitt: ...the 200 new run-through posts for the more senior junior doctors recommended by the review group and specifically welcomed by Professor Douglas. On the issue of those graduating from the two-year foundation programme, any graduate from that programme who is ready to progress with their training will certainly have a training opportunity. The hon. Gentleman asked what will happen in August....

Opposition Day — [12th allotted day]: Secretary of State for Health (23 May 2007)

Patricia Hewitt: ...see the consultant, have the scans and tests, get the diagnosis, decide on the operation and book the date for the operation—all in one visit. That never used to happen. Yeovil District Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has also changed its way of working and will now be one of the first hospitals in the country to deliver a maximum of 18 weeks for almost all of its patients. That is...

Oral Answers to Questions — Health: Acute Hospital Services (24 Apr 2007)

Patricia Hewitt: The future of acute hospital services increasingly lies in high-quality, independently regulated and locally accountable NHS foundation trusts, such as Frimley Park in the hon. Gentleman's constituency.

Oral Answers to Questions — Health: NHS (Private Sector) (13 Mar 2007)

Patricia Hewitt: ...region—at the Shepton Mallet independent sector treatment centre. The latter is not only giving the patients whom it receives very good and much faster care, it has also led Yeovil District Hospital NHS Foundation Trust to change the way it organises its services, making it one of the first hospitals that will achieve for most of its patients the 18 weeks target—and a year...

Opposition Day — [6th Allotted Day]: Acute Hospital Services (21 Feb 2007)

Patricia Hewitt: The role of Homerton hospital and others like it—Homerton hospital is a superb hospital taking full advantage of its relatively new foundation trust status—is to do the things that can be done only in an acute hospital, working with GPs, health centres and other parts of the local NHS to ensure that wherever possible, care is delivered to people closer to their own homes because...

Opposition Day — [3rd Allotted Day]: Health Care-acquired Infections (23 Jan 2007)

Patricia Hewitt: ...NHS in 2007 and the additional £50 million given to NHS trusts in December 2006 to tackle healthcare associated infections." I spent yesterday morning with staff and patients at the Royal Marsden hospital in London, an NHS foundation trust that is giving superb care to some of our country's most seriously ill cancer patients. Because patients' safety is the hospital's top priority, it...

Opposition Day — [3rd Allotted Day]: Health Care-acquired Infections (23 Jan 2007)

Patricia Hewitt: The hon. Gentleman raises an important point. Many hospitals have introduced protected hours for visiting and controls on numbers, and several NHS foundation trusts engage their members in decisions on such restrictions. However, I must say that, once again, the hon. Gentleman is asking the Government to decide. Does he want us to set a target for the number of visitors that there should be...

Opposition Day — [3rd Allotted Day]: Health Care-acquired Infections (23 Jan 2007)

Patricia Hewitt: ...my condolences to Mr. Martin's family. Although it is never possible to eradicate MRSA completely, given the complexities of modern medicine, every avoidable death from MRSA—or any other hospital-inquired infection—is one death too many. That is why, as part of the clinical governance arrangements in the NHS that we have been strengthening since we were elected, it is essential...

Prime Minister: NHS Performance (7 Jun 2006)

Patricia Hewitt: ...work. With that investment has come reform, giving patients more choice for elective operations, using the independent sector to add to the capacity and innovation of the NHS, and establishing NHS foundation trusts with more freedom to respond to local people's needs. Sir Ian's report shows that NHS staff are continuing to improve patient care. Waiting times are continuing to fall....

Prime Minister: NHS Performance (7 Jun 2006)

Patricia Hewitt: ...small deficit, which is quite manageable. One out of 10 organisations, many of which have been overspending for several years, have serious financial problems. The financial figures for the foundation trusts were published earlier this week by Monitor. Their overall deficit is £24 million, making an overall deficit of £536 million, which is still significantly less than 1 per...

Prime Minister: NHS Performance (7 Jun 2006)

Patricia Hewitt: Board members' salaries are entirely a matter for foundation trusts. The hon. Gentleman's foundation trust, like others, will have local members and a local governance arrangement, and it is up to the members and the governing council to decide what those salaries should be. He refers to ward closures. There are many reasons why a hospital might want to reorganise wards. It might need and...

Orders of the Day: NHS Redress Bill [Lords] (5 Jun 2006)

Patricia Hewitt: ...in some 90 per cent. of cases. That is not a satisfactory situation. I shall give an example of a case that was dealt with by the health service ombudsman, because it had not been properly dealt with by the hospital concerned. A woman, Mrs. X, injured her foot in a fall. She went to accident and emergency, where X-rays were taken, and she was told that she had sprained her ankle and did...

Orders of the Day: NHS Redress Bill [Lords] (5 Jun 2006)

Patricia Hewitt: I thought that was the point that the right hon. Gentleman was making. My answer is that the Bill does not apply to hospitals in Scotland. It will be for the Scottish Parliament to decide whether it wishes to introduce an equivalent scheme. The NHS in Scotland is a devolved responsibility; I believe that to be the case. If I am wrong, I will no doubt shortly be corrected. It follows from the...

Written Ministerial Statements — Health: NHS Foundation Trust Applications (Wave 2) (26 Apr 2006)

Patricia Hewitt: ...4(1) of the Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003 provides that an NHS trust may make an application to Monitor (whose statutory name is the Independent Regulator of NHS foundation trusts) for authorisation to become an NHS foundation trust, if the application is supported by the Secretary of State. I am today announcing that I support Luton and Dunstable...

Oral Answers to Questions — Health: Southport Hospital (31 Jan 2006)

Patricia Hewitt: ...Merseyside strategic health authority has recently helped us pilot a new programme to improve financial management in the NHS and to ascertain whether potential applicants are ready to apply for foundation hospital status. In that context, the health authority has been examining structures throughout the local health community. I am assured that there are no firm proposals to merge any NHS...

Written Ministerial Statements — Health: Foundation Trusts (18 Jan 2006)

Patricia Hewitt: ...Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003 provides that a National Health Service trust may make an application to Monitor (the statutory name of which is the independent regulator of NHS foundation trusts) for authorisation to become an NHS foundation trust, if the application is supported by the Secretary of State for Health. I am today announcing that I support the following 18 NHS...

Oral Answers to Questions — Health: Payment by Results System (20 Dec 2005)

Patricia Hewitt: ...was paid in wave one to bring new providers into the NHS, but also to recognise that they were having to make new capital investment that was not required within the NHS itself. Overall, our foundation trusts and independent sector treatment centres in south Yorkshire and elsewhere are doing a superb job for NHS patients. We want that improvement to continue and it will undoubtedly do so...

Orders of the Day — Health Bill (29 Nov 2005)

Patricia Hewitt: ...for the NHS, which the Conservative party failed to make available, and thanks to our reforms, we are bringing waiting lists down, and as more capacity becomes available to the NHS both in NHS hospitals and in independent sector treatment centres, as is happening now, it will be possible to get the waiting lists down even further, with lower bed occupancy rates, which in turn will help to...

Orders of the Day — Health Bill (29 Nov 2005)

Patricia Hewitt: The right hon. Gentleman raises an important point. As for private hospitals and the independent sector generally, the same standards will apply, using the same code provisions but under the existing legal powers of the Care Standards Act 2000. The obvious reason why we have a somewhat different enforcement regime is that we have direct management controls—or through a monitor, direct...