Results 1-12 of 12 for foundation hospital speaker:David Kidney

Written Answers — Health: Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust (14 May 2009)

David Kidney: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many temporary nurses have been recruited to work at Stafford Hospital pending substantive appointments by Mid-Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust in the last 12 months; and if he will make a statement.

Stafford Hospital (1 Apr 2009)

David Kidney: .... The hon. Member for South Staffordshire (Sir Patrick Cormack) asked me to say that he very much wanted to be here to take part in the debate, because many of his constituents look to Stafford hospital for treatment, but, as I speak, he is chairing the Select Committee on Northern Ireland Affairs in a meeting with the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, so he is unable to attend. He...

Stafford Hospital (1 Apr 2009)

David Kidney: ...Alberti is probably the country's leading authority on A and E care. There was some concern in my constituency, and in my mind, about whether that might be too narrow a focus in respect of this hospital's performance, given that the complaints and findings in the report went wider than A and E care. That is why I pressed for access to all areas at the hospital. I am pleased that everybody...

Stafford Hospital (1 Apr 2009)

David Kidney: ...those findings. On the disciplinary action that has been announced, we have a full and thorough report that is damning about the management. The chief executive is responsible for the management of the hospital. Even two weeks before the report came out, the chief executive produced a statement saying that he was stepping down from the trust, which, locally, we all took to be the...

Stafford Hospital (1 Apr 2009)

David Kidney: I said that in the case of my hospital, I want details of deaths, complaints and standards of care to be published. That is the sort of accountability that we want. We also want a management that allows staff to speak out and does not dictate that they must keep quiet, and we want public and patient involvement from a group of people who get things done and link back to the public at large....

Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust (23 Mar 2009) has video

David Kidney: ...the House to discuss a specific and important matter, which I believe should have urgent consideration, namely Parliament's response to the Healthcare Commission's report on Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust. Last Wednesday, the Health Secretary made a statement to the House in response to the report and answered hon. Members' questions for an hour. That was the right thing to do. He...

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

David Kidney: The report makes it very clear that the care failings ran deep and wide. It is less clear why that performance attracted the highest, three-star rating and foundation trust status just last year. I put it to the Secretary of State that the big challenge now is to get that hospital performing to the right standard every day for every patient while totally reconstituting the trust. May I ask...

Business of the House: Defence in the World (8 May 2008) has video

David Kidney: ...to the town, has allowed soldiers and families to be part of the community, At the freedom ceremony, Lieutenant-Colonel Fraser said: "Only six months after I arrived we had babies born in local hospitals, kids at schools and dependants finding employment—we were very much embraced from the start!! We have supported where we can Remembrance Day events, High Court Openings and the...

Orders of the Day: Mental Health Bill [Lords] (16 Apr 2007)

David Kidney: ...time. I can give an eye-witness account of the changes that have taken place. For nearly 20 years before I was elected to Parliament I was a solicitor in Stafford, where we have a very successful hospital for mental health treatment, St George's hospital. I regularly advised patients, had discussions and meetings with members of staff such as psychiatrists and hospital managers, and had...

NHS Dentistry (20 May 2003)

Mr David Kidney: ...to see that in the Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill provision is made for changing dental services. The debate on that Bill has been overshadowed by the issue of foundation hospitals, but part 4 contains proposals for improving NHS dentistry. It is proposed that primary care trusts should commission services in future and that new kinds of contracts for the...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (11 Dec 2002)

Mr David Kidney: ...trusts, such as the one based in Stafford, but will the Prime Minister confirm that the Government's evident good intention to support the health service will not be undermined by their plans for foundation hospitals?

Budget Resolutions — Amendment of the Law (17 Apr 2002)

Mr David Kidney: ..., it was clearly based on stability and fairness. They have now moved on to enterprise and fairness. That is not to say that they have given up on stability, but that stability has put in place foundations on which they can be more ambitious and start to tackle some more deeply rooted problems such as the productivity gap between us and our main competitors. Again, it is a credit to what...