Results 1-6 of 6 for foundation hospital speaker:Phil Willis

Estimates Day — [2nd Allotted Day] — Supplementary Estimates, 2006-07: NHS Deficits (12 Mar 2007)

Phil Willis: ...on the way to that point, but I would like to think that the whole House would coalesce around that specific objective. The real issue is that we cannot allow primary care trusts, individual hospital trusts or any other trusts that provide care to be told that they must control their budgets and manage within them, but then to be given directions from the centre, over which they have no...

Orders of the Day: Adjournment (Summer Recess) (25 Jul 2006)

Phil Willis: ...to be found anywhere in the UK. Those GPs have embraced reform, modernisation and the move to enhance the opportunities to deliver ever more services by primary care. We also have a general hospital, the Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust, which was ranked as a three star hospital for three consecutive years before achieving compliance status as a foundation trust in 2006. It...

Orders of the Day: Adjournment (Summer Recess) (25 Jul 2006)

Phil Willis: ...a statutory requirement, not an add-on, in future. The GP referral issue impacts directly on both secondary and tertiary care, which means a direct impact on the Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust. Again, relationships have not simply broken down, because the two bodies are about to end up in court, where the worst case scenario is the closure of one of the country's most modern...

Prime Minister: NHS Performance (7 Jun 2006)

Phil Willis: ...dedication and professionalism of the staff. However, what would the Secretary of State advise me to tell my constituents who are seeing a ward close—not as the result of inefficiency; the hospital is run effectively—while the salaries of the foundation trust's chairman and board members are being doubled? Right across the country, every foundation trust's non-executive...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (19 Apr 2006)

Phil Willis: ..., where the play, "Cut and Run", is being performed? He will know that that is a classic farce about the running of the national health service. Will he then visit with me the local three-star foundation hospital, which has delivered on every target that he and his Government have set and has exercised financial prudence every year in balancing its budget? This year, however, it must close...

Higher Education (22 Jan 2003)

Mr Phil Willis: ...departments and to increase the commitment to teaching. We are especially pleased that the Secretary of State recognises the work in further education colleges and their vital role in expanding the foundation degree base, in particular for work-based degrees. So those are the positives. But Labour has been in government for six years. It recognised the problems in higher education...