Results 1-20 of 29 for foundation hospital speaker:Mike O'Brien

Written Answers — Health: Hospitals: Private Finance Initiative (12 Nov 2009)

Mike O'Brien: ...scheme to the Department and Treasury for approval in 2010; The Department and Treasury is planning to announce a decision on the approval of the outline business case for the £204 million Papworth Hospitals NHS Foundation PFI scheme shortly; Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust has submitted the outline business case for its £477 million PFI scheme to...

Written Answers — Health: Peterborough and Stamford Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (12 Nov 2009)

Mike O'Brien: The information requested is a matter for Peterborough and Stamford hospitals NHS foundation trust. We have written to Mr. Nigel Hards, chair of Peterborough and Stamford Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, informing him of the hon. Member's inquiries. He will reply shortly and a copy of the letter will be placed in the Library.

Written Answers — Health: NHS: Information and Communications Technology (11 Nov 2009)

Mike O'Brien: ...local costs associated with preparation, deployment and support. The agreed deployment charge for full deployment of all bundles of service, when complete, at the South Birmingham PCT, University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Trust, Hereford Hospitals NHS Trust, and Five Boroughs Partnership NHS Trust is £4.758 million in each case. For Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation...

Written Answers — Health: Accident and Emergency Departments: Waiting Lists (3 Nov 2009)

Mike O'Brien: ...facilities is not collected centrally. Trusts submit information on time spent from arrival to admission, transfer or discharge in hourly time bands. This information for Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust accident and emergency facilities is shown in the following table. This information is taken from the Quarterly Monitoring of Accident and Emergency dataset...

Written Answers — Health: NHS: Information and Communications Technology (29 Oct 2009)

Mike O'Brien: ...users of Release 1 of the Lorenzo software system in the national health service bodies concerned are as follows: Number Five Boroughs Partnership NHS Trust 43 Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust 12 University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Trust 96 Hereford Hospitals NHS Trust 7 South Birmingham Primary Care Trust 16 These figures exclude other...

Written Answers — Health: NHS: Finance (28 Oct 2009)

Mike O'Brien: ...1.7 per cent. of its net operating costs. This excludes any management costs incurred by the providers of the health care that is commissioned by the PCT. Bolton PCT's main provider is Royal Bolton Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. NHS foundation trusts have independent status in the national health service and are free from the Department's powers of direction. They are not required to...

Written Answers — Health: Accident and Emergency Departments: Nottinghamshire (26 Oct 2009)

Mike O'Brien: ...not by commissioning primary care trust (PCT). Data has therefore been set out in the following table for the relevant providers. For Nottinghamshire County PCT, the providers are Nottingham University Hospital National Health Service (NHS) Trust (from Quarter 2 2006-07), Queen's Medical Centre (part of Nottingham University Hospital NHS Trust) (Quarter 1 2006-07 only), and Sherwood Forest...

Written Answers — Health: NHS Foundation Trusts: Governing Bodies (16 Oct 2009)

Mike O'Brien: The process for selecting and removing the chairman, chief executive and directors of a foundation trust hospital is contained in Schedule 7 of the National Health Service Act 2006. The board of governors at a general meeting appoint or remove the chairman and the other non executive directors. The non-executive directors appoint or remove the chief executive. It is for a committee consisting...

Written Answers — Health: NHS: Finance (16 Oct 2009)

Mike O'Brien: The Department makes loans to national health service trusts and national health service foundation trusts. The information requested is provided in the following table. NHS trust name National loan fund rate (fixed for term) (percentage) Term of loan (year s/month s) Interest paid to date (£000) Ashford and St Peter's Hospitals NHS trust 5.40 6 years 1,641 Avon and...

Written Answers — Health: East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust (13 Oct 2009)

Mike O'Brien: I expect East Lancashire Hospitals National Health Service Trust to make a foundation trust application late in 2010.

Written Answers — Health: Hospitals: Construction (13 Oct 2009)

Mike O'Brien: ...,822 million (including Personal Social Services). However, full details of the capital expenditure programme for 2010-11 have not yet been finalised, which includes expenditure on public capital funded hospital building schemes. Budgets for 2011-12 to 2013-14 will be decided as part of the next spending review. The estimated capital expenditure arising from Private Finance Initiative...

New Member: Clause 2 — Duty to have regard to NHS Constitution (12 Oct 2009) has video

Mike O'Brien: We certainly need to ensure that we do not have another Mid Staffordshire hospital situation and that the CQC, which has now replaced the Healthcare Commission, can produce reports on individual hospitals, receive references from individuals who feel that there are problems in particular trusts and act upon those references. I do not believe that we need to enshrine that in the constitution,...

New Member: New Clause 13 — Private patient income of mental health foundation trusts (12 Oct 2009) has video

Mike O'Brien: Somewhere or other, hon. Members may well have heard me do so, as the hon. Gentleman says from a sedentary position. The aim of the new clause is to enable a designated mental health NHS foundation trust to earn up to 1.5 per cent. of its total income from income that it derives from private charges. The clause also contains a definition of mental health foundation trust for this purpose. In...

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

Mike O'Brien: ...in place temporary managers. One problem, as he will recall, was that the chief executive, who by all accounts was a talented individual, was part-time and was also working elsewhere for another hospital. That was not satisfactory in the view of much of the public in Stafford, and various local MPs, including my hon. Friend the Member for Stafford (Mr. Kidney), made representations...

Written Answers — Health: Health Services: Overseas Residence (9 Sep 2009)

Mike O'Brien: ...and North East Cambridgeshire are shown in the tables. The provisions of the NHS (Charges to Overseas Visitors) Regulations 1989 place a legal obligation on providers of National Health Service hospital services to establish whether patients are ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom and, if not, whether they are exempt from charges under the provisions of the regulations or liable to...

Written Answers — Health: Prescriptions: Fees and Charges (20 Jul 2009)

Mike O'Brien: ...: Academy of Medical Royal Colleges Addison's Disease Self Help Group All-Party Parliamentary Group on Sickle Cell and Thalassaemia The Association of Cancer Physicians Asthma UK British Heart Foundation British Medical Association British Society for Rheumatology British Thoracic Society Coeliac UK Cystic Fibrosis Trust Diabetes UK East Birmingham and Solihull GP Vocational training...

Written Answers — Health: Accident and Emergency Departments: Hampshire (14 Jul 2009)

Mike O'Brien: Information is not available in the format requested. The following table shows the number of patients admitted to hospital through accident and emergency departments (A and Es) for hospital providers in the ceremonial county of Hampshire with a cause code of W54 (bitten or struck by dog). 2007-08 is the most recent financial year for which data are available. Information has therefore been...

Written Answers — Health: NHS: Private Sector (14 Jul 2009)

Mike O'Brien: ...elective referral can choose to be treated at any clinically appropriate provider that meets national health service costs and standards (including waiting times standards). This includes all NHS Foundation trusts and NHS Acute trusts as well as a large number of Independent Sector providers and their hospitals. There are some services that fall outside the scope of the choice policy....