Results 1-15 of 15 for foundation hospital speaker:Alan Johnson

Oral Answers to Questions — Health: Whistleblowers (12 May 2009) has video

Alan Johnson: ...the matter vociferously, as has my hon. Friend the Member for Stafford (Mr. Kidney). We want a solution. I am also struck by the reluctance of the public in Stafford to be involved in Stafford hospital. We have talked about the staff—it is a foundation trust, so the staff have an important involvement in it—but there is also a problem with the public coming forward and getting...

Written Ministerial Statements — Health: Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust (30 Apr 2009)

Alan Johnson: On 17 March 2009 the Healthcare Commission, the independent health regulator, published its comprehensive report into the severe failings in emergency care provided by Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust between 2005 and mid 2008. It was a catalogue of appalling management and failures at every level for which I apologised on behalf of the Government and the NHS in my oral statement to...

Oral Answers to Questions — Health: NHS Chief Executives (24 Mar 2009) has video

Alan Johnson: I do not think that any neutral assessment of the Healthcare Commission report would conclude that the answer to the problem at Stafford would be to get rid of foundation trust status. However, my hon. Friend is right that the manager and the board at Stafford were seeking foundation trust status. To achieve that, incidentally, they had to put the trust into a proper financial position and...

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

Alan Johnson: With permission, Mr. Speaker, I wish to make a statement about Stafford hospital, following the Healthcare Commission's investigation published yesterday. The report details astonishing failures at every level, and shows that for patients admitted for emergency care at Stafford, there were deficiencies at every stage. The Healthcare Commission found disorganisation, delays in assessment and...

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

Alan Johnson: I apologise on behalf of the Government and the NHS for the pain and anguish caused to so many patients and their families by the appalling standards of care at Stafford hospital, and for the failures highlighted in the report. In the course of my statement I will set out the actions that we will take in response to the report, but I want to begin by summarising the events that led to the...

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

Alan Johnson: ...Stafford was made before the Healthcare Commission decided that it needed to investigate. Yes, there were issues to do with the high standardised mortality ratio, but there are such issues in many hospitals. Once the Healthcare Commission decided formally to investigate on 18 March 2008, the hospital already had foundation trust status. Why did Monitor do that? It did so because the...

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

Alan Johnson: My hon. Friend has strong views about foundation hospitals, which I do not agree with. He was right, however, in his first comment. The NHS, which deals with 1 million people every 36 hours, does a terrific job up and down the country. He is falling into the trap of equating Stafford with everywhere else. There are 115 foundation trust hospitals that do a terrific job and whose standards are...

Oral Answers to Questions — Children, Schools and Families: NHS Next Stage Review (30 Jun 2008) has video

Alan Johnson: ...debate about that within the NHS for 60 years. The original concept of the NHS—this was also central to the debate within the Cabinet at the time between Morrison and Bevan—was that hospitals should be taken out of the control of local municipalities and charities. Bevan's vision for the national health service was one that, in a sense, needed to be driven from the centre. I...

Opposition Day — [15th Allotted Day]: NHS (60th Anniversary) (24 Jun 2008) has video

Alan Johnson: ...and Clinical Excellence. In the same year, we established the Healthcare Commission and the other commissions, making them responsible for setting standards, and inspecting and reporting on every hospital, mental health and social care provider in England—completely beyond the influence of politicians. Four years ago, we established NHS foundation trusts—independent of...

Written Ministerial Statements — Health: "Clean, Safe Care" (9 Jan 2008)

Alan Johnson: ...need in the care they receive. This strategy sets out where there are national expectations and requirements—such as the new national target for clostridium difficile or the requirement for every hospital to have undergone a deep clean by March 2008. It also guides NHS organisations and staff as to the actions and investment that will be most effective in continuing to tackle...

Written Ministerial Statements — Health: PCTs and the NHS Operating Framework (13 Dec 2007)

Alan Johnson: ...progress over the past 10 years on investment and reform. Patients wait no more than four hours in accident and emergency, the health service has more doctors and nurses than ever before; and we have witnessed the largest hospital building programme since the NHS was founded. As the NHS enters its 60th year, we must continue to drive forward with ever-greater determination, and so for the...

Opposition Day — [1st allotted day]: Health Care-Associated Infections (21 Nov 2007)

Alan Johnson: There is actually no correlation between high bed occupancy rates and levels of MRSA, as the hon. Lady well knows. The Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, for example, has a bed occupancy rate of 92 per cent., but it has cut the number of MRSA cases by well above the national average. As to the suggestion that we should set a national target for bed occupancy rates, I had thought...

Written Ministerial Statements — Health: Patient Satisfaction (NHS Cleanliness) (21 Nov 2007)

Alan Johnson: .... In 2000, we introduced Patient Environment Action Teams (PEAT), which, each year, assess every in-patient health care facility in England with more than 10 beds. The inspection looks at issues of hospital cleanliness, the quality of the environment, food and at issues of privacy and dignity. Figures published today by the NPSA show that in 2007, 98 per cent. of hospitals were rated...

Opposition Day — [16th Allotted Day]: Stroke Services (11 Jul 2007)

Alan Johnson: .... I fully accept, however, that there is more we must do to remedy the failings highlighted in the reports by the National Audit Office and the Public Accounts Committee. We are able to build on strong foundations. We now possess far greater knowledge about lifestyle factors and how they can cause strokes than we did 10 years ago. We have learned more about techniques in rehabilitative...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: NHS Next Stage Review (4 Jul 2007)

Alan Johnson: ...90 billion a year, so there are now 80,000 more nurses and 36,000 more doctors. That unprecedented investment has been matched by new ways of working, from practice-based commissioning to NHS Direct and foundation hospitals. On most objective measures, the NHS is performing better than ever, with more than 1 million extra operations taking place every year. Waiting lists are down, while...