Results 1-20 of 38 for foundation hospital speaker:George Young

Bill Presented: Health Bill [ Lords] (8 Jun 2009) has video

George Young: ...that he made about tobacco. May I pick up on a point that my hon. Friend the Member for Basingstoke (Mrs. Miller) made about clause 34, which caps the private income that can be generated by a foundation trust? When the Bill setting up foundation trusts was going through the House of Commons, I remember objecting to that provision because it would freeze the activity of a hospital such as...

Public Bill Committee: Housing and Regeneration Bill: Clause 172 (29 Jan 2008)

George Young: ...the issue again and engage opinions on it before Third Reading. That was helpful, but I am worried that he is relying on meetings with Treasury officials. Treasury officials are not omniscient. They were wrong about foundation hospitals—they said that they would be off balance sheet, but they turned out to be on balance sheet. There is a risk in relying on Treasury opinion. I am...

Orders of the Day: Housing and Regeneration Bill (27 Nov 2007) has video

George Young: ...there will be substantial reductions in other parts of the housing budget and particularly those parts of it that go to private sector renewal. I am the chairman of a small national charity, the Foundations Independent Living Trust, which helps elderly or disabled people on low incomes to stay in their homes, or to return to their homes after they have been in hospital, by working through...

Residential Care (Public Funding) (17 Jan 2007)

George Young: ..., he chose not to. In fairness to the Government, they recognise that there is a problem and they have called for a "shift in the centre of gravity of spending", with more "care undertaken outside hospitals and in the home". If that is their ambition, however, they will have to provide the resources to deliver the outcome. At the same time as we have this downward pressure on resources,...

NHS Funding (9 Feb 2005)

Sir George Young: ...to the NHS from whichever political party it may come. Is the Secretary of State aware that the two PCTs in my constituency are running at a substantial deficit, which is why, in turn, two hospitals were unable to become foundation trusts? Is he concerned about the gap between the rhetoric in Westminster and the reality on the ground in constituencies such as mine, where ill people read of...

Summer Adjournment (22 Jul 2004)

Sir George Young: ...Member for Mitcham and Morden (Siobhain McDonagh) will understand if I do not follow her on the local issues that she raised. However, I want to pick up a point that she made about star ratings and hospitals. The House should address three issues before we rise for the summer recess, all of which have an impact on my constituency; they concern the Learning and Skills Council, the...

Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation (22 Mar 2004)

Sir George Young: ...being devoted to the NHS. The Secretary of State said when he opened the debate that we still have a long way to go, which is indeed the case. I got a fax last week from the Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust about a constituent waiting for a scan appointment at the Wessex neurological centre. I quote what it said: "The waiting list for such an examination currently runs at around...

Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation (22 Mar 2004)

Sir George Young: ...a general election, possibly 12 months away, I would be deeply worried about ending up with egg on my face because of that new policy, under which the trusts that have been encouraged to apply for foundation status may find that they are worse off. In passing, I mention the senseless cap on private patient income for foundation trusts. Hospitals in my constituency could increase their...

Scottish Constituencies (Members' Voting Rights) (21 Jan 2004)

Sir George Young: In a moment. The position is compounded by the West Lothian question, whereby Scottish Members can impose foundation hospitals on my constituents, but not on their own. As an English MP with English constituents, I find it impossible to defend the status quo.

Scottish MPs (Voting Rights) (6 Jan 2004)

Sir George Young: ...and measured response to the powerful case made by my hon. Friend the Member for North Wiltshire (Mr. Gray), whom I compliment on his choice of subject. As we heard, last month, one vote on foundation hospitals was carried by the votes of Scottish Members. Yesterday, when I spoke on the Traffic Management Bill, which covers only England and Wales, I raised the question of whether it was...

Scottish MPs (Voting Rights) (6 Jan 2004)

Sir George Young: ...is a fact and that we should make it work. They are prepared to do so, but there is a consequent inequity. While they can no longer influence whether their Scottish friends have top-up fees or foundation hospitals, their Scottish friends can influence whether such policies happen in England. It is impossible to defend or explain that to my constituents. The problem is compounded by the...

Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill: Clause 1 — NHS Foundation Trusts (19 Nov 2003)

Sir George Young: ...agrees with the Lords in their amendments. Two issues that have run through the debate this afternoon and evening remain wholly unanswered by the Government. The first relates to funding. If a foundation trust successfully raises money privately and uses those resources to construct a building that would not otherwise have been built, the consequence will be that another hospital does not...

Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill: Clause 1 — NHS Foundation Trusts (19 Nov 2003)

Sir George Young: ...not answer the point that has been made time and again, for the following reason: he will never be able to get from the Treasury the totality of the money that he would like to spend on the NHS. If foundation hospitals were to be allowed to spend in addition to the provision made, there would be some advantage in their creation, but I repeat what I said a few moments ago: every success by...

Public Bill Committee: Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill: Clause 14 - Authorised services (3 Jun 2003)

Sir George Young: ..., which amends clause 15. The amendments to clause 15 have been grouped with those to clause 14. I do not understand clause 15. On Second Reading the Secretary of State said: ''The Bill frees NHS foundation trusts from powers of direction from Whitehall that have been in place for umpteen years.''—[Official Report, 7 May 2003; Vol. 404, c. 710.] Yet under the Bill he is introducing...

Public Bill Committee: Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill: Clause 14 - Authorised services (3 Jun 2003)

Sir George Young: I accept that point, but in relation to those trusts that are not planning to be foundation trusts, will the Minister confirm that if a hospital does not become a trust until 2008, its baseline for those purposes is 2003?

Public Bill Committee: Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill: Clause 14 - Authorised services (3 Jun 2003)

Sir George Young: Following the Minister's logic, why do the caps not apply to hospitals that do not become foundation trusts?

Public Bill Committee: Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill: Clause 12 - Prudential borrowing code (22 May 2003)

Sir George Young: ...I must observe that the Minister is caught between a rock and a hard place. If he agrees with his hon. Friend and says that despite the heroic work envisaged in the Bill no extra money would go to foundation trusts, he must then confront the chief executives of the foundation trusts, who will ask what is the point of it all. In replying to that question, he must disappoint either his hon....

Public Bill Committee: Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill: Clause 11 - Power of Secretary of State to give financial assistance (22 May 2003)

Sir George Young: ...which we are operating. I want to return to clause 11 and the question of grants. I am sure that my hon. Friend the Member for South-West Devon (Mr. Streeter) was right when he said that although foundation trusts are interested in pioneering a new form of social ownership, they are much more interested in whether they can be free of the shackles of the Treasury, access more capital and...

Public Bill Committee: Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill: Clause 11 - Power of Secretary of State to give financial assistance (22 May 2003)

Sir George Young: The best way for the Minister to resolve the matter is to take the case of a typical hospital trust and tell us what would happen if it were to become a foundation trust, how much of its existing capital it would continue to receive and what proportion it would no longer receive but would be expected to get through the new route that is being opened up under this part of the Bill. If the...

Public Bill Committee: Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill: Clause 9 - Variation of authorisation (22 May 2003)

Sir George Young: ...local government. The Government are keen for good co-operation between health services and social services. Concern has been expressed to the Select Committee on Health that when the concept of foundation care trusts is being developed, emphasis may be placed on acute services, and the needs of the wider health economy may be disregarded. The King's Fund posed the following question...