Results 1-5 of 5 for foundation hospital speaker:Edward Leigh

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

Edward Leigh: ...micro-manage the national health service. We should rely on professionals and on their good judgment. Increasingly, we should step back and set budgets—the Government are doing that through foundation hospitals—and proceed apace, relying on the professionals to run hospitals in the way they think best. However, I will not take the House with me on many of those things.

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

Edward Leigh: ..., for instance, about the efficient use of asset management and the roll-out of computer systems. What is increasingly happening in relation to health, for instance, is that the Government say to hospitals, "We will pay you through the primary care trust so much per hip and then you can get on with it. If you do it efficiently and learn good practice, you can keep more of your money." I...

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

Edward Leigh: That may be a good point. Perhaps the principle behind foundation hospitals is right, but we have not implemented it in the right way. The Minister has heard the hon. Lady's intervention, so perhaps we will learn from that practical experience. Whatever the House might think about those ideological differences, I hope that we all agree that we have to be much more commercially astute in the...

Orders of the Day: Local Government and Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (8 Nov 2007) has video

Edward Leigh: .... They went in one direction and they have now rowed back with academies. They made a series of reforms of the health service. They rolled out all that health policy and have rowed back again with foundation hospitals. We have also had all this debate about reorganisation. Councillors in Lincolnshire and, I suspect, elsewhere want a degree of stability. The French, German and American...

Prime Minister: NHS Performance (7 Jun 2006)

Edward Leigh: At 12.30 pm today, the National Audit Office published the summarised accounts for 2004-05. The Secretary of State has announced today an unaudited deficit for 2005-06 of £512 million. For foundation hospitals, that will rise to £536 million. However, if we look at the audited accounts for 2004-05, we see that the audited account deficit was almost twice as much as the unaudited...