Results 1-7 of 7 for foundation hospital speaker:Joan Walley
- Written Answers — Health: North Staffordshire University Hospital: Pay (5 Dec 2007)
Joan Walley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will take steps to ensure that University Hospital Birmingham Foundation Trust makes full and accurate payments to staff at the North Staffordshire University Hospital in line with their entitlement to remuneration for hours worked and pay award, within the timescale specified in their contracts.
- Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation (28 Mar 2006)
Joan Walley: ...whether through environmental improvements to our own homes, informing our constituents or getting our local authorities to adopt a leadership role on environmental issues. The Budget provides the foundations for real progress on environmental issues, not least in respect of microgeneration, at work, in schools and in all the public finance undertakings. The Environmental Audit Committee...
- Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill: Clause 1 — NHS foundation trusts (19 Nov 2003)
Ms Joan Walley: ...the resource allocations working party and the inequalities that there have been in health? I am looking for some assurances about "Agenda for Change". In chapter 8 of that document, it says that foundation trusts will be able to pay their staff far more than other hospitals. That will increase health inequalities, not decrease them. What will he do to ensure that the ability of foundation...
- Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill (7 May 2003)
Ms Joan Walley: ...having more flexibility in the NHS and that local decisions should not have to be agreed nationally. However, he still has not convinced me that his way of doing that is the right way in respect of foundation hospitals. Surely, we have self-governing trusts at a local level. Why cannot we start where the inequalities are greatest, in areas such as north Staffordshire, where we have...
- Foundation Hospitals (7 Jan 2003)
Ms Joan Walley: ...all that the Government have done to improve health care. If improvements are needed anywhere, they are needed in Stoke-on-Trent, North. There are prospects of a new training centre and a new hospital in my constituency, but there is considerable progress to be made following the years of under-investment by Conservative Governments. How do we take forward the huge improvements that we...
- Written Answers — Health: Foundation Hospitals (25 Jan 2002)
Ms Joan Walley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what process will be used to select managers for the proposed foundation hospitals.
- Health Inequality (25 Feb 1998)
Ms Joan Walley: ...-arching concept of sustainable development, which recognises that the principles behind public health are part and parcel of all aspects of public policy. I welcome the White Paper, as it lays the foundation for beginning the process of modernisation and especially accountability, so that we can deliver uniformly high standards of health care. It consults, and puts a clinical focus on the...