Results 1-7 of 7 for foundation hospital speaker:David Taylor
- National Health Service (8 Feb 2005)
Mr David Taylor: ...relationship. I referred earlier to the King's Fund and Bristol university study, which was published in the British Medical Journal. The study showed that 92 per cent. of the population have two hospitals within 60 minutes' travel time. Other members of the Health Committee and I saw a demonstration of this really complicated choose-and-book system at the Department of Health. It reminded...
- Oral Answers to Questions — Health: Foundation Hospitals (29 Apr 2003)
Mr David Taylor: What recent representations he has received in relation to his plans for foundation hospitals; and if he will make a statement.
- Oral Answers to Questions — Health: Foundation Hospitals (29 Apr 2003)
Mr David Taylor: The Government's commitment to a primary care-led NHS with high national standards and free from excessive bureaucracy is most welcome, but does not the foundation hospital ideology run directly counter to those values? Is not the Secretary of State engineering a US-style system of health care rooted in market morality and private provision that is not old values in a new setting, but a...
- Foundation Hospitals (8 Jan 2003)
Mr David Taylor: My hon. Friend said that he endorsed much of what the hon. Lady has said in the past, but does he agree with her comment just now that foundation hospitals would be freer to pay at local rates? Does he agree that trusts have had that power to negotiate local pay for more than a decade, but only a handful have done so, and that some of those have backed off because of the difficulties? Was...
- Hospice Movement (29 Nov 2001)
Mr David Taylor: ...psychology of the service and environment provided by the voluntary sector often has important advantages for the patient over NHS provision, where beds are typically found for palliative care in a hospital or, at least, on an adjacent site. Even if practical, NHS provision does not offer psychological or psycho-social sanctuary to terminally ill people in the way that hospices have...
- Private Finance Initiative (17 Jul 2001)
Mr David Taylor: ...the PFI: the inflexibility and rigidity of service provision, reduced access, decreased diversity and, ultimately, the failure to meet public need. We should resist the PFI-inspired erosion of the foundations of our public services that usher in the expansion of user charges and show the door to the principle of the public funding of services that are free at the point of delivery. My...
- Primary Care (Cancer) (17 Feb 2000)
Mr David Taylor: ...collaboratives with their nine pilot national networks, including one part based in north-west Leicestershire, which involves the local primary care group, the Measham medical unit and Glenfield hospital near Leicester. I know, from talking to Dr. Orest Mulka and Dr. Pawan Randev at the Measham practice and from listening to patient and carer stories, that the way in which cancer...