Results 1-20 of 30 for foundation hospital speaker:John Reid

NHS Funding (9 Feb 2005)

Dr John Reid: ...per cent., from 1997 figures, in death rates from heart disease and stroke, and a 20 per cent. fall in death rates from cancer. We also want to improve the experience throughout the NHS for all patients. By the end of 2008, for their planned hospital care, as a result of these allocations, all patients will be able to choose between a range of providers, including NHS foundation trusts and...

Oral Answers to Questions — Health: Foundation Hospitals (18 Jan 2005)

Dr John Reid: The matter is being investigated by Monitor, the organisation that was established precisely to ensure that foundation trusts—we hope that all hospitals will obtain foundation status in future—comply with rigorous financial inspections. I would therefore prefer to leave it to that organisation, and to say only that this is not an aberration—Monitor was set up to discover...

Oral Answers to Questions — Health: Foundation Hospitals (18 Jan 2005)

Dr John Reid: To suggest that the NHS would plough ahead with any project, whether it costs £1 or £1 billion, without planning permission is to stretch the credulity of the House. As far as foundation status is concerned, I can confirm two things: first, we intend all NHS trusts to get foundation status; secondly, the services that NHS trusts provide will be free at the point of need. We do not...

Written Ministerial Statements — Health: NHS Foundation Trusts (7 Sep 2004)

Dr John Reid: I announced on 26 July that I would support 20 National Health Service trusts in their bids to become NHS foundation trusts as part of wave 1A. These trusts have made an application to Monitor (whose statutory name is the independent regulator of NHS foundation trusts) for authorisation as NHS foundation trusts, and are setting up their new governance arrangements including recruiting...

Written Ministerial Statements — Health: Reducing Bureaucracy (22 Jul 2004)

Dr John Reid: ...from direction by the Secretary of State. The Healthcare Commission (whose statutory name is the Commission for Healthcare Audit and Inspection), the Independent Regulator of National Health Service Foundation Trusts and the Commission for Social Care Inspection, will continue to regulate providers and their services. The Healthcare Commission will take on the main role of the Mental...

Written Ministerial Statements — Health: NHS Foundation Trusts (1 Jul 2004)

Dr John Reid: The chairman of the independent regulator of national health service foundation trusts has today announced that, in accordance with section 6 of the Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003, the independent regulator has authorised the following NHS trusts as NHS foundation trusts from 1 July 2004: Addenbrooke's NHS Trust City Hospital Sunderland NHS Trust...

Oral Answers to Questions — Health: Foundation Hospitals (8 Jun 2004)

Dr John Reid: My right hon. Friend is right to say that a review is under way. In respect of the application for foundation trust status, I shall say only that an initial failure does not mean that reapplication cannot be made in the relatively near future. I do not wish to prejudge matters, but I can tell him that Hartlepool will still have a full and proper hospital service after the review has taken place.

Oral Answers to Questions — Health: Foundation Hospitals (8 Jun 2004)

Dr John Reid: ...NHS, whose patients were treated with disdain by the previous Conservative Government for 20 years. Another tier was available for those who had the money, which allowed them the quick access to hospital care in the private sector that the Opposition have always supported. NHS foundation trust status will be allocated over the next few years to every hospital. As a result, every hospital...

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

Dr John Reid: The right hon. Gentleman misunderstands foundation status. Such hospitals will not get any extra money. What they will get is greater freedom to deploy their money without constantly having to obtain ratification and permission from Ministers and bureaucrats in Whitehall.

Written Ministerial Statements — Health: Bureaucracy (20 May 2004)

Dr John Reid: ...in posts of 25 per cent., in the same period. Changes on this scale will enable considerable extra resources to be redeployed to the frontline. For example another £0.5 billion would provide for four new hospitals, or 20,000 more nurses, or 6,250 consultants, or 7,500 general practitioners. I recognise that the changes in prospect will cause uncertainty and disruption but they are...

Written Ministerial Statements — Health: NHS Foundation Trusts (31 Mar 2004)

Dr John Reid: The Chairman of the Independent Regulator of NHS foundation trusts has today announced that, in accordance with section 6 of the Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003, the Independent Regulator has authorised the following NHS trusts as NHS foundation trusts from 1 April 2004: Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals NHS Trust Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS...

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

Dr John Reid: My intervention would be briefer if Opposition Members were prepared to accept the answer for which they have constantly asked. There is not an individual cap on hospitals, foundation trusts or otherwise— It being one hour after the commencement of consideration, Mr. Deputy Speaker put the Question already proposed from the Chair, pursuant to Order [this day].

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

Dr John Reid: ...the Prime Minister said the other day, when the trade unions invited him to speak to their political committee, and when I have invited trade union leaders to come with me to talk to staff in hospitals, we have not found rampant opposition to letting staff get on with the job themselves. When "foundation trust" is understood by the public and the staff—let us be honest, there is...

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

Dr John Reid: ...later. I want to illustrate how far we have gone in our discussions on compromise. We will insist on reinserting the statutory limit on the proportion of private patients treated in NHS foundation trusts, removed by the Opposition in another place. We have agreed to limit the borrowing powers, as explained earlier, of NHS foundation trusts through a prudential borrowing code. We have...

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

Dr John Reid: ...for Change" was agreed after two years of discussion with all the trade unions involved. It includes a flexibility to pay staff above the minimum agreed levels, but that does not apply only to foundation hospitals. It applies to all hospitals. If my hon. Friend is saying that some hospitals attract staff because they are perceived to be better than other hospitals—because they are...

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

Dr John Reid: I congratulate the hon. Gentleman on the performance of his local hospital and on the support that he has given it in its quest for foundation status. I am sorry that his promotion means that he is in a straitjacket when it comes to voting tonight for what he believes in. I am sure that my hon. Friends will remark on the discipline that has been imposed in the attempt to inflict a defeat on...

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

Dr John Reid: There is no indication whatsoever that any hospital with or without foundation status would benefit from doing that. It is possible for people to jump off Tower bridge—all things are theoretically possible—but there is not one shred of evidence that there would be any incentive to opt out of what will be, by any standards, the biggest ever IT project. Indeed, the introduction of...

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

Dr John Reid: ...it has appointed half a shadow Minister for education and half a shadow Minister for health, but two chairmen have been appointed to sort out the party. The whole point of passing down power to hospitals with foundation status is to give them greater freedom to respond quickly to the needs and ambitions of today's patients.

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

Dr John Reid: The right hon. Gentleman speaks as if he is making a huge revelation. Of course there is a pot from which hospitals and other elements of the national health service—foundation trusts or otherwise—must take their money. The difference between what is happening under this Government and what happened under 20 years of the last Conservative Government—the right hon. Gentleman...

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

Dr John Reid: First, with the greatest respect to my right hon. Friend, she is not exactly correct. The proposal gives the first foundation status opportunities not to the most privileged hospitals but to the best performing hospitals. Some of them are in more socially affluent areas, but others are not. Many good performing hospitals are in relatively underprivileged catchment areas. Secondly, and...