Results 1-20 of 88 for foundation hospital speaker:Andrew Lansley

Bills Presented: Education and Health (19 Nov 2009)

Andrew Lansley: .... The Government literally took their feet off the accelerator on payment by results simply because they did not realise that it was bound to have an impact on the distribution of resources between hospitals. What they should have done is to move faster to a much more effective payment-by-results system that accurately reflected the costs of different procedures. Payment choice is supposed...

New Member: Schedule 6 — Repeals and revocations (12 Oct 2009) has video

Andrew Lansley: ...quality. We did not discuss this evening, but at an earlier stage, the obligation to produce quality accounts. I have to hand the quality report produced by the Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust, which is the Secretary of State's local hospital. As a result of it, he will know perfectly well that nothing prevents a requirement from being placed on hospital trusts, or...

New Member: New Clause 12 — De-authorisation of NHS foundation trusts (12 Oct 2009) has video

Andrew Lansley: ...now be done in Staffordshire only on the basis of an independent and public inquiry. We are committed to that. However, he must recall that the problems—the quality issues—at Stafford hospital started not with foundation status, but before that. They had started over a considerable period of time when the trust was an NHS trust under the scrutiny of the strategic health...

Written Answers — Health: Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust (21 Jul 2009)

Andrew Lansley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health on what date his Department agreed to support Mid Staffordshire General Hospitals NHS Trust in its application for foundation trust status; which Minister took this decision; and if he will place in the Library a copy of his Department's analysis used as the basis for making that decision.

Bill Presented: Health Bill [ Lords] (8 Jun 2009) has video

Andrew Lansley: ...process. I think that was part of his responsibilities as a Minister. It was about accelerating patient choice, extending practice-based commissioning, completing the transfer of NHS trusts to foundation trusts, and stimulating additional capacity for the NHS through the independent sector. Those were the four drivers of reform that Tony Blair talked about. What has happened? All four have...

Bill Presented: Health Bill [ Lords] (8 Jun 2009) has video

Andrew Lansley: ...let go. Let him take away the four-hour target and see what can be arrived at by way of a series of measures of quality of emergency care in emergency departments agreed between commissioners and hospitals. Let us see whether the result is an improvement or a reduction in quality of care. My belief is that it would be an improvement. Among other measures, the Secretary of State referred to...

Bill Presented: Health Bill [ Lords] (8 Jun 2009) has video

Andrew Lansley: ...almost four hours before they are discharged by the emergency department to avoid a breach. There is a range of such measures, and if, as he says, the proposal is already normal clinical practice, hospitals will have no difficulty building it into the structure of their performance measurement. The Secretary of State made an interesting point, however, because I remember that Kettering...

Opposition Day — [11th Allotted Day]: Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust (18 May 2009)

Andrew Lansley: I beg to move, That this House calls for an independent inquiry under the Inquiries Act 2005 into the failings of the Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust. I understand that the Secretary of State is with the World Health Organisation in Geneva. He spoke to me last week about that. We entirely accept that that is the proper thing for him to do, so I welcome the Minister of State, the hon....

Opposition Day — [11th Allotted Day]: Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust (18 May 2009)

Andrew Lansley: ...thus far have not answered the questions that must be answered. In his report, Dr. Colin-Thomé says: "I feel very strongly that a lack of good patient engagement is the key to why Mid Staffordshire hospital trust continued to provide poor care for a protracted period of time." That may well be true, but is there any analysis that goes beyond that? Is there any analysis of how the...

Opposition Day — [11th Allotted Day]: Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust (18 May 2009)

Andrew Lansley: ...point on which a public inquiry would further add to our knowledge. Just before the Healthcare Commission report was published, Martin Yeates, then chief executive of Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust, "stepped down"—that, apparently is a term of art. After the commission's report was published, the board took the view that he should be suspended. It instituted an investigation...

Stafford Hospital (1 Apr 2009)

Andrew Lansley: ...made by him, my hon. Friend the Member for Stone (Mr. Cash), the hon. Member for Cannock Chase (Dr. Wright) and others with personal knowledge of the patients treated at Stafford general hospital. Time permits me to make only a small number of points, so I shall focus on the issues as seen by patients themselves. In the immediate aftermath of the Healthcare Commission's report, it became...

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

Andrew Lansley: ...State for his statement and will share with him the apology that he expressed on behalf of the Government and the NHS to all the families and patients adversely affected by the events at Stafford hospital. We were all shocked and appalled at the failings in patient care at the hospital. There was a systematic failure in respect of patients receiving emergency care. Triage was done by...

Debate on the Address: Health and Education (11 Dec 2008) has video

Andrew Lansley: ...not use international benchmarking for infections and admit that our MRSA rates are much higher than best practice or that our rates of clostridium difficile can be four times the average for other hospital systems. They do not use international benchmarks to admit that our cancer survival rate is a quarter worse than the best in Europe, that our stroke mortality is a third worse than...

Oral Answers to Questions — Health: NHS Patients (Access to Medicines) (4 Nov 2008) has video

Andrew Lansley: ...to be both private patients and NHS patients in relation to the same course of treatment, even if the Government dress it up as separate care, with patients being wheeled to another ward in the hospital to have their cancer drug administered and then a bill sent to them by the NHS. I refer Government Members to page 6 of the report, where the Secretary of State requires strategic health...

Written Answers — Health: NHS Foundation Trusts (1 Sep 2008)

Andrew Lansley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health in what ways he plans to accelerate the rate at which existing NHS trusts achieve NHS Foundation Trust status, as referred to on page 61 of High Quality Care for All, Cm 7432; and whether it is his policy that all hospital trusts should be able to apply for NHS Foundation Trust status by the end of 2008.

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

Andrew Lansley: ...policy? Yet he says nothing about scrapping those targets. Clearly, other parts of the Blairite agenda have been dropped, as there is nothing in the statement about practice-based commissioning, foundation trusts or independent sector treatment centres. If they are all on the back-burner and the Blairite agenda has gone, why does the Secretary of State cling to targets? The Government have...

Written Answers — Health: Cancer: East of England (20 May 2008)

Andrew Lansley: ...oncological services in the region in the last three years; (2) what provisions there are in the private finance initiative agreement between his Department and the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust on the number of (a) oncological procedures and (b) head and neck cancer procedures to be carried out at the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital.

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

Andrew Lansley: ...they have an eminently qualified candidate; otherwise, round 2 will not have as many posts as it should. Back in late April, the Department appeared to believe that there were between 500 and 1,300 foundation programme graduates who were at risk of not attracting either specialist training one posts or fixed-term specialist training posts. Do I gather from the Secretary of State's...

[John Cummings in the Chair] — Health Services (West London) (1 May 2007)

Andrew Lansley: ...for Uxbridge (Mr. Randall), who did likewise during his debate back in 2004. My hon. Friend the Member for Ruislip-Northwood concentrated on the Royal Brompton and Harefield, and Mount Vernon hospitals, and I shall follow him. On the Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Trust, I share my hon. Friends' anger at what happened in relation to Paddington health campus, and the delays and £14...

Opposition Day — [9th Allotted Day]: Modernising Medical Careers (24 Apr 2007)

Andrew Lansley: .... However, there is something that we can and must do between now and August. It is not good enough to wait for Sir John Tooke's review in order to produce a report in September. We must consider foundation programme graduates who should, in all cases, be able to access specialty training. If they are not getting access to that training, posts will need to be created to enable that to...