Results 1-19 of 19 for foundation hospital speaker:Gary Streeter

Public Bill Committee: Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill: Clause 132 - Co-operation between Assembly and CHAI (12 Jun 2003)

Mr Gary Streeter: Coming down to specifics, I should like to consider the case of a hospital that feels that it is being over-investigated, with too many inspections being carried out by both bodies, perhaps in the course of the same financial year. If a hospital trust, whether foundation or otherwise, were to approach the Under- Secretary and say that the procedure was too expensive and time-consuming and...

Public Bill Committee: Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill: Clause 21 - Fees (3 Jun 2003)

Mr Gary Streeter: ...of questions in support of his argument. This is an interesting amendment to an interesting clause. I want to probe the Minister a little. Will the fees paid to the regulator replace any fees that hospitals currently pay to the centre? My concern throughout the Bill has been that rather than setting the hospital trusts free, we might be adding bureaucracy and costs to them. Is it the case...

Public Bill Committee: Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill: Clause 23 - Failing NHS foundation trusts (3 Jun 2003)

Mr Gary Streeter: ...thought that I misread it, so I reread it several times. I thought that it was trying to say something that it is not trying to say; that when a regulator has the opportunity to serve a notice on a hospital trust, he should first serve a notice specifying the breach and giving a reasonable period in which the breach should be rectified. Only then could the regulator move on to use some of...

Public Bill Committee: Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill: Clause 19 - Information (3 Jun 2003)

Mr Gary Streeter: We are all concerned about the quantity of reporting requirements imposed on hospitals at present, and we hoped that those requirements would be lighter under the foundation trusts regime. Will the Minister assure me that the amount of information required by the Secretary of State under the provision and the format in which it is required will be the same as that required by the regulator,...

Public Bill Committee: Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill: Clause 18 - General powers (3 Jun 2003)

Mr Gary Streeter: I hope to be brief in supporting the amendment, although the debate is an important one. The provision is a litmus test of the true measure of freedoms being granted to foundation hospitals. I can see no reason why a foundation hospital, having set up the safeguards required by the Bill, and having given ownership to local people, set up the board of governors and appointed the non-executive...

Public Bill Committee: Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill: Clause 18 - General powers (3 Jun 2003)

Mr Gary Streeter: ...salary is £14,000, the average house price is £140,000. Clearly, those sums do not add up for young people seeking to get on to the housing ladder. What prevents the Government from giving the foundation trusts the freedom to decide what salary levels to set? I know that there is a legitimate concern about poaching. We do not want a health service in which people are perpetually...

Public Bill Committee: Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill: Clause 11 - Power of Secretary of State to give (22 May 2003)

Mr Gary Streeter: The Minister has virtually answered my query in his last half sentence. Can he assure me that the Government do not intend to withdraw existing streams of capital to hospitals that will become foundation hospital trusts, either within the three-year allocation cycle or thereafter? Is the extra borrowing capacity provided for in the Bill intended to provide extra resources, or do the...

Public Bill Committee: Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill: Clause 9 - Variation of authorisation (22 May 2003)

Mr Gary Streeter: ...because I am increasingly concerned about the lack of co-operation and integration in different parts of the country—including the west country—between social services and acute hospitals. This is an opportunity for us to make it clear in the Bill that we want the new foundation trusts to work closely with social services committees and to listen carefully to reports made to...

Public Bill Committee: Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill: Clause 4 - Application by NHS trusts (20 May 2003)

Mr Gary Streeter: Does my hon. Friend agree that the Government might be putting the cart before the horse? If a primary care trust were to become a foundation trust with local accountability, democracy and ownership, it would be the unit that buys in services from hospitals and it would not commission services from hospitals that did not deliver high-quality services. That would create gaps in the market for...

Public Bill Committee: Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill: Clause 3 - GENERAL DUTY OF REGULATOR (20 May 2003)

Mr Gary Streeter: ...Cambridgeshire. I wish to read out clause 3, which, as my right hon. Friend says, is important. I am concerned about transparency and accessibility. Members of the public who become members of a foundation hospital trust, some of whom will sit on boards of governors, will want to know the legal framework within which they will operate. One of their first questions will be on the duty of...

Public Bill Committee: Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill: Clause 3 - GENERAL DUTY OF REGULATOR (20 May 2003)

Mr Gary Streeter: ...produce are not realised in practice. It is very important that the regulator has a duty, in accordance with his wider duties, to make sure that professionals who are running services in foundation hospital trusts have a mind to partnerships with voluntary sector organisations. That should be expressly included in the Bill. It is to be hoped that the Minister will not just pay...

Public Bill Committee: Health and Social Care(Community Health and Standards) Bill: Schedule 2 - Independent Regulator of NHS Foundation Trusts (20 May 2003)

Mr Gary Streeter: The Minister is right to say that the hon. Lady has raised an important point, and he is trying to deal with it maturely. Once the Bill is passed, will the NHS foundation trusts have any more flexibility than non-foundation hospitals over what they pay, or over their employees' terms and conditions?

Public Bill Committee: Health and Social Care(Community Health and Standards) Bill: Schedule 1 - Constitution of public benefit corporations (20 May 2003)

Mr Gary Streeter: ...important. The Minister responded to the debate before the arguments were actually made on the amendments. However, I invite her to think again. She will know that under paragraph 21 of schedule 1, foundation hospital trusts must prepare and produce accounts that run to the end of a financial year, which is defined as 31 March in every case. That is straightforward and sensible. Schedule...

Public Bill Committee: Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill: Schedule 1 - Constitution of public benefit corporations (15 May 2003)

Mr Gary Streeter: I may be missing something, but if 30 PCTs are bidding into a foundation hospital and each wanted to appoint someone to the board of governors, who would oversee that and prevent it from happening?

Public Bill Committee: Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill: Schedule 1 - Constitution of public benefit corporations (15 May 2003)

Mr Gary Streeter: ...me back to a point that I sought to make, probably inadequately, the other day. Are public benefit corporations limited liability organisations? The Under-Secretary's answer was no. Let us test that. If a hospital foundation trust should fail and become insolvent—I have read the provisions for dealing with that situation—the assets of that hospital trust will stay in the...

Public Bill Committee: Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill: Schedule 1 - Constitution of public benefit corporations (15 May 2003)

Mr Gary Streeter: My hon. Friend makes a valuable point. However, paragraph 5(2) does not just judge people harshly; it writes them off for all time. Once bankrupt, a person cannot become a member of a foundation hospital trust. That is not right, and I do not think that that is what was intended. I hope that the Under-Secretary will consider that. My third point is about something that increasingly concerns...

Public Bill Committee: Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill: Clause 1 - NHS foundation trusts (13 May 2003)

Mr Gary Streeter: ...and the Minister keeps saying that there is nothing in the Bill to preclude it. Those two things are, of course, very different. We are talking about whether there is authorisation in the Bill for foundation hospital trusts to service people from, for example, Wales. Of course they are not precluded from doing that, but that is not the same as being authorised. I believe that amendment No....

Public Bill Committee: Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill: Clause 1 - NHS foundation trusts (13 May 2003)

Mr Gary Streeter: ...benefit of this country's well-established company law? If they are considered to be bodies corporate, why is the Minister insisting that the title in every constitution includes the words ''NHS foundation trust''? Trusts and bodies corporate are very different things under English law. I wonder whether it is not misleading to suggest that these are trusts, when in fact they are bodies...

Orders of the Day — International Development Bill (6 Mar 2001)

Mr Gary Streeter: ...of poverty. It is by encouraging the private sector and foreign investment that we will help economies to grow and living standards to rise. Conservative development policy will help to lay the key foundations of stability, on which developing nations can then build. We want to empower developing countries committed to change, so that they can govern responsibly for all their citizens. In...