Results 1-7 of 7 for foundation hospital speaker:Baroness Tonge
- NHS: Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust — Statement (18 Mar 2009)
Baroness Tonge: ..., an organisation of which I have always been proud. As well as the House sending condolences to the relatives of patients who may have lost their lives as a result of incompetence at Stafford Hospital, I offer my condolences to the Minister, because it cannot be easy to deliver a Statement such as this. However, could she comment on a few points? The reductions in expenditure that the...
- Botswana (13 Mar 2006)
Baroness Tonge: ...first 10 years, as it has been for many decades. Grant loans are given for university education, which many Botswanans take advantage of. Healthcare is largely free and there are good clinics and hospitals. Botswana has had one of the world's highest economic growth rates since independence in 1966 and is now classed as a middle-income country. I will give no more details of the economy of...
- Cancer Treatment (21 Jul 2005)
Baroness Tonge: ...to the modern and sophisticated techniques used in nuclear medicine nowadays. I should also declare an interest in that my husband, Dr Keith Tonge, is a consultant neuroradiologist at St Thomas's Hospital across the river who, many years ago, worked on combining CT scanning with PET scanning. It gives a much better and more comprehensive image, as the noble Lord, Lord Campbell-Savours,...
- Humanitarian Crisis (Southern Africa) (26 Jun 2003)
Dr Jenny Tonge: ...fields. They become a huge burden on their families, because they need to be helped. They need food and water, and to be nursed in the villages. When I was in Malawi, I visited the Queen Elizabeth hospital in Blantyre, which looked a bit like my local hospital. It was a lovely, airy building with nice corridors and windows on each side. However, when I went into one of the wards, I saw...
- Health and Pensions (14 Nov 2002)
Dr Jenny Tonge: ...they are preventing money from reaching the patient. I wish that the Government would take that point on board. An example of bureaucratic meddling recently occurred in my own area, in Kingston Hospital NHS trust. In August the chief executive was suddenly magicked away. The hospital needed refreshing, we were told, and he went just after the new strategic health authority was formed. He...
- Health and Pensions (14 Nov 2002)
Dr Jenny Tonge: ...; there is no question about that. On this occasion I am speaking on behalf of colleagues and ex-colleagues in the NHS and not for myself or as a Liberal Democrat. Hon. Members have observed that foundation hospitals in the south-east with a great deal of land would become rich, but that those riches would no longer be shared with the rest of the health service. However, what happens if...
- Prayers: Montserrat (18 Feb 1998)
Dr Jenny Tonge: ...made readable. I found one sentence in Sir Robert May's report particularly enlightening. On page 2, he says: We should be wary of placing too much faith in the predictions of future activity as a foundation for making decisions. Elsewhere in the report, Sir Robert says: do not place too much emphasis on results…never before done a risk assessment on an erupting volcano". Sir Robert...