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Opposition Day — [15th Allotted Day]: Management of the National Health Service (9 May 2006)

Howard Stoate: ...later. I want to look at what we can do in the community to expand health care and health care facilities. The community services White Paper called for far more services to be delivered outside hospital, along with practice-based commissioning and new initiatives on prevention and chronic disease management, thus demonstrating that the NHS can become leaner, fitter, much more efficient...

Department of Health (20 Mar 2006)

Howard Stoate: ...clearly it has not. Nevertheless, it has travelled a long way. That is not to say that there are no issues of concern. There certainly are such issues, and I should like to raise a couple. My local hospital, which is involved in the private finance initiative, has a turnover of about £100 million, with a PFI access charge of about £18.9 million this year. Yes, it is in financial...

Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill: Schedule 13 — Repeals and Revocations (8 Jul 2003)

Dr Howard Stoate: ...to the needs of the providers and not enough to the needs of the users. They want more choice, more flexibility and more say in how their services are run. There has been a huge, long debate on foundation hospitals, but it boils down to a simple concept, which is not rocket science and does not involve destroying the health service or huge upheaval. The proposals would do two things:...

Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill: Clause 1 — NHS Foundation Trusts (8 Jul 2003)

Dr Howard Stoate: The purpose of the Bill is to give patients more say, flexibility and control over local services. Surely foundation hospitals are merely one mechanism for doing that. We are making a huge amount of fuss about a relatively small reorganisation to allow more flexibility in the running and provision of services.

Foundation Hospitals (8 Jan 2003)

Dr Howard Stoate: No. There is little time and other hon. Members still want to speak. This afternoon, hon. Members have asked about those trusts that are left out—that are not able to become foundation hospitals. It has been suggested that hospitals with one or two stars will not get a look-in and will somehow miss out. I take issue with that. In my area, where the hospital has one star, it is getting...

Foundation Hospitals (8 Jan 2003)

Dr Howard Stoate: The right hon. Gentleman believes that all hospitals should be given the opportunity to become foundation hospitals. Is he suggesting that even hospitals that are manifestly failing to deliver a reasonable service should be given those freedoms, without any sorts of checks and balances to prevent their failing their local communities even more than some are doing currently?