Results 1-10 of 10 for foundation hospital speaker:John Redwood

Written Answers — Health: NHS Foundation Trusts (27 Jun 2007)

John Redwood: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the average cost has been of establishing an NHS hospital as a foundation trust.

Government Regulation (4 Jul 2005)

John Redwood: ...the Government to table a programme for the UK Presidency of lesser and better regulation for the EU as a whole; and asks the Government to bring forward proposals which free professionals in hospitals and schools, which cut the costs of controls over elected local government, and allow business in the UK to compete more successfully against Asian and American competitors. In moving this...

Oral Answers to Questions — Health: Health Investment (Staffordshire) (8 Jun 2004)

Mr John Redwood: How much extra money could North Staffordshire hospital get for its health service if it had foundation status; and what would be the extra costs of the bureaucracy and corporate governance of a foundation hospital?

Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill: Clause 1 — NHS foundation trusts (19 Nov 2003)

Mr John Redwood: Will the right hon. Gentleman tell us which of the freedoms that he will grant to foundation hospitals he thinks they will use, and how will that improve things?

Oral Answers to Questions — Health: Foundation Hospitals (3 Jun 2003)

Mr John Redwood: I welcome the Secretary of State saying that he wants to encourage the widest possible membership of foundation hospitals. In that spirit, will he consider extending membership to all people on the electoral roll in the relevant area? If he does not want to go that far, will he tell the House what active measures he will take to promote wide membership, which many of us would welcome?

Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill (7 May 2003)

Mr John Redwood: Will my hon. Friend tell the House which extra freedoms he thinks that foundation hospitals should enjoy, compared with the garbled model presented by the Government? That may calm Labour Members' impatience, as I think that they have not yet grasped his argument.

Foundation Hospitals (8 Jan 2003)

Mr John Redwood: No, it does not suggest that at all. I repeat my firm promise and expectation that the policy, when announced in the run-up to the election, will not include a single cut to a hospital such as the Royal Berkshire hospital, and that our pledge to increase the number of nurses, doctors and other important medical staff in hospitals will need to be renewed. I am sure that we will want to employ...

Foundation Hospitals (8 Jan 2003)

Mr John Redwood: ...the heads of local management. That must be the Secretary of State's view, because he now wishes to trust local management more. Next, I want real democracy to surround the idea of members of a foundation hospital. Some Labour Members are on to that real difficulty in the Government's position, and I am sure that they will not be satisfied by the Secretary of State's argument, which is...

Foundation Hospitals (8 Jan 2003)

Mr John Redwood: That is an interesting complexity, but I would be democratically generous and give them a vote in the affairs of any foundation hospital that served their area. That might mean their having a vote in respect of more than one foundation hospital, which brings me neatly to my third important point. In some of the Government's rhetoric I have noted words and phrases that I find a little...

Debate on the Address — [First Day] (13 Nov 2002)

Mr John Redwood: ...than they currently get, because the huge educational quangos and the national Government machinery would be cut back, and the money would be better spent. I want the Government to propose foundation hospital status for all hospitals and to give those hospitals real independence so that patients have choice, and I want those hospitals to have enough independence to be able to borrow and...