Results 1-8 of 8 for foundation hospital speaker:Gareth Thomas

Anti-Malarial Treatments (13 Jan 2004)

Mr Gareth Thomas: ...and is also assiduous in promoting the interests of his constituents and of those who serve his constituents. In that sense, I, too, want to congratulate Professor Khrishna of St. George's hospital, and the team who work with him, on their recent success in identifying how artemisinin works. Scientists have been trying to understand that since the 1970s, so the breakthrough of Professor...

HIV/AIDS (11 Dec 2003)

Mr Gareth Thomas: ...1,000 medical staff in four Nigerian states found that 10 per cent. of doctors and nurses admitted having refused to care for an HIV/AIDS patient or having denied HIV/AIDS patients admission to hospital. We know, too, that people with HIV/AIDS suffer discrimination in the workplace. They may be removed from their jobs, or have to experience the withdrawal of health and insurance benefits....

Public Bill Committee: Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill: Clause 10 - Register of NHS foundation trusts (22 May 2003)

Mr Gareth Thomas: I support the amendments of my hon. Friend the Member for West Bromwich, West (Mr. Bailey). One of the main attractions of foundation hospitals is that they offer direct democracy and truly put the ''public'' back into public ownership. Fundamental to the democratic elements of foundation hospitals will be a thriving, active and substantial membership. I am tempted to look to my experience...

Public Bill Committee: Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill: Clause 10 - Register of NHS foundation trusts (22 May 2003)

Mr Gareth Thomas: ...of local people's campaigning will achieve the result that the local community wants. In a case such as the one to which I have just referred, a thriving membership and active work by the local foundation hospital would not be necessary, because people would flock to join. Foundation hospitals generally need to take a much more active stance by recruiting a membership that reflects the...

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

Mr Gareth Thomas: ...in how one defines an NHS patient. Nevertheless, I hope that my hon. Friend the Under-Secretary will be sympathetic and look at this issue outside of the Committee. The essential point is that foundation hospitals will remain NHS hospitals. They will serve NHS patients, operate according to NHS standards and use NHS revenues. Therefore, why should the electorate for the management boards...

Co-operatives and Community Benefit Societies Bill: Clause 9 — Short Title and Extent (4 Apr 2003)

Mr Gareth Thomas: ...success. I welcome the Bill. I particularly welcome clause 1 as a further guarantee against demutualisation. Unlike my hon. Friend the Member for West Bromwich, West (Mr. Bailey), I think that foundation hospitals are an interesting example to touch on briefly in the context of clause 1. By the time that the Bill is passed by the House of Commons and the other place—I hope that that...

Health and Pensions (14 Nov 2002)

Mr Gareth Thomas: As someone rooted in the co-operative traditions to which my right hon. Friend refers, I warmly welcome the proposals for foundation hospitals, not least because they offer the prospect of replacing local quangos, which are too often not accountable to local people, with democratically elected boards. Will my right hon. Friend be sympathetic to those local communities that are unhappy with...

Prayers: Rural and Urban White Papers (26 Jan 2001)

Mr Gareth Thomas: ...Hatch End association organised a triathlon, and I have just about recovered from the experience of taking part in it. The Pinner association has an imaginative partnership with the Heath Robinson foundation to devise the beginnings of a future for West house, an important historic building in Pinner that has been neglected for some time. Many suburbs remain leafy and affluent, but a...