Results 1-10 of 10 for foundation hospital speaker:Vera Baird
- Women and Pensions (12 Jul 2005)
Vera Baird: ...my elderly mother a Sunday lunch and a couple of suppers a week to help her out, does that make me a carer? Probably not. On the other hand, if I give her a meal every night and I take her to the hospital a couple of times a week, does that make me a carer? It is difficult to find a way of getting better credits for carers, because of the difficulty of defining a carer. The other problem...
- Written Answers — Health: Sexual Assault Referral Centres (6 Oct 2003)
Ms Vera Baird: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) whether it is his policy that foundation hospitals will accommodate sexual assault referral centres; (2) if he will make it his policy that in areas where there are no foundation hospitals in the short term sexual assault referral centres should be located at major general hospitals.
- Equal Pay (25 Jun 2003)
Ms Vera Baird: ...the public sector. Such measures as public-private partnerships, private finance initiatives, large-scale voluntary transfer of council housing, the introduction of public interest companies to run foundation hospitals and the use of private contractors to deliver more and more public services will put more and more people outside the ambit of government and public sector pay reviews....
- Written Answers — Health: Foundation Hospitals (1 May 2003)
Ms Vera Baird: To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether Department of Health funding for foundation hospitals will vary according to the revenue a foundation hospital receives from other sources.
- Written Answers — Health: Foundation Hospitals (28 Apr 2003)
Ms Vera Baird: To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether under Clause 15 of the Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill organisations other than NHS trusts who gain foundation hospital status will be limited as to the percentage of private patients they treat in their first year of foundation hospital status; and whether they will be able to treat the same percentage in each year...
- Written Answers — Health: Foundation Hospitals (28 Apr 2003)
Ms Vera Baird: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how hospitals in less prosperous areas will be empowered by the Secretary of State to obtain investment levels equivalent to those of Foundation Hospitals in more prosperous areas which sell non protected assets at high value.
- Written Answers — Health: Foundation Hospitals (28 Apr 2003)
Ms Vera Baird: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what his policy is on whether Foundation Hospital borrowing, on the basis of income from trading it may establish with its non-protected assets, will be off the public sector borrowing requirement.
- Written Answers — Health: Foundation Hospitals (28 Apr 2003)
Ms Vera Baird: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how he will compensate the central NHS funding pool for the loss of the value of assets sold for their own use by foundation hospitals.
- Written Answers — Health: Foundation Hospitals (14 Apr 2003)
Ms Vera Baird: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what plans he has to protect smaller local hospitals from becoming unable economically to carry out particular procedures and treatments in the face of competition from foundation trusts.
- Written Answers — Health: Foundation Hospitals (14 Apr 2003)
Ms Vera Baird: To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether foundation hospitals will be able to set up limited companies with which to conduct trade with their non-protected assets.