Results 1-20 of 21 for foundation hospital speaker:Kevan Jones

Written Answers — Defence: Armed Forces: Mental Health Services (26 Oct 2009)

Kevan Jones: ...contract with the Priory Group has been replaced by a new one, awarded in November 2008 following open competition, with a partnership of seven NHS trusts led by South Staffordshire and Shropshire NHS Foundation Trust. Costs for its first full 12 months of operation will be available in spring 2010. Prior to April 2004, in-patient care was provided at MOD's Duchess of Kent Psychiatric...

Written Answers — Defence: Armed Forces: Mental Health Services (12 Oct 2009)

Kevan Jones: ...number of military patients who need it, in-patient care is currently provided by a group of seven NHS trusts located throughout England and Scotland, led by South Staffordshire and Shropshire NHS Foundation Trust (SSSFT) through a central MOD contract. The Department has issued guidance to commanders on substance misuse and all three services have robust drug and alcohol policies in...

Written Answers — Defence: Armed Forces: Mental Health Services (14 Sep 2009)

Kevan Jones: ...number of military patients who need it, in-patient care is currently provided by a group of seven NHS trusts located throughout England and Scotland, led by South Staffordshire and Shropshire NHS Foundation Trust (SSSFT) through a central MOD contract. When personnel leave military service their healthcare becomes the responsibility of the NHS. Ex-Service personnel receive good treatment...

Written Answers — Defence: Armed Forces: Health Services (21 Jul 2009)

Kevan Jones: The arrangements in place for the three services are as follows. All newly qualified military doctors have to undertake two years of foundation training after qualifying from medical school. They then have to complete the course for new entry officers relevant to their particular service, normally six months for the Royal Navy and Army, five months for the Royal Air Force. In the case of the...

Written Ministerial Statements — Defence: Haslar Hospital Site (20 Jul 2009)

Kevan Jones: The Royal Hospital Haslar is an important historical site. It opened to patients in 1754 and formally ceased to be a military hospital in 2007, although it continued treating NHS patients until July this year when clinical facilities and Defence Medical Services personnel were transferred to the Queen Alexandra Hospital, Cosham, and elsewhere. The future use of this site, which extends to...

Written Answers — Defence: Armed Forces: Health Services (20 Jul 2009)

Kevan Jones: ...cost. However, during the period 2004-05 to 2007-08 a total of 100,112 treatments have been delivered through accelerated access arrangements in England. A detailed breakdown of this activity by hospital is provided in the following table. Derriford Frimley Park Northallerton Peterborough Portsmouth RCDM( 1) Royal Surrey 2004-05 2,491 5,897 3,106 4,985 6,895...

Written Answers — Defence: UK Health Departments Partnership Board: Meetings (14 Jul 2009)

Kevan Jones: ...10 Feb 16 Jun Joint Chairs DMSD—DCDS (Health) Present Present Present Present Present Present Present Present DH—Chief Executive Sheffield Teaching Hospitals Present — Present Present Present Present Present Present MOD attendees DMSD—Surgeon General Present Present Present...

Written Answers — Defence: Departmental Health Insurance (20 Apr 2009)

Kevan Jones: ...Financial year £ 2004-05 45,755,000 2005-06 43,790,000 2006-07 43,720,000 2007-08 45,450,000 2008-09 51,283,000 These figures include secondary health care contracts with German hospitals; non-contracted extra-contractual costs for specialist care; primary care contract costs with SSAFA Forces Help and Guy's & St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust (i.e. not all...

Written Answers — Defence: Armed Forces: Health Services (19 Mar 2009)

Kevan Jones: ...the exemplary level of operational healthcare and rehabilitation services. We look forward to the relocation of the Royal Centre for Defence Medicine's clinical facilities from Selly Oak to the new NHS hospital being built for the University Hospital Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, which will start admitting patients in 2010 and will be Europe's largest and most modern critical care...

Business of the House: Armed Forces Personnel (29 Jan 2009) has video

Kevan Jones: ...have been delays but the momentum exists. The work on a successor to Land Securities Trillium is well advanced and an announcement will be made shortly. Reference was made to stand-alone military hospitals and Haslar. I have to say to the hon. Member for Westbury that I wish the Opposition would not make a political issue out of that. When his party was in power, it closed military...

Written Answers — Defence: Ex-servicemen: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (20 Jan 2009)

Kevan Jones: ...NHS trusts across the UK are piloting a new model of mental health care for veterans, one of which is located in Camden and Islington, and another one is based at the Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust. These will provide a holistic service with social support networks complementing health care. Since 1996, the NHS Trauma Service in Hull has worked with veterans to develop and...

Written Answers — Defence: Charities (19 Jan 2009)

Kevan Jones: ...sport and other voluntary cadet groups" includes organisations to support service personnel. Their families and veterans, e.g. SSAFA, WRVS, Pre-school Learning Alliance, NAAFI, The Naval Families' Foundation, Help Information Voluntary Exchange (HIVE) and sports bodies. 2. Museums include, for example, the RAF museum and the National Army museum. 3. Voluntary cadet groups refer to...

Written Answers — Defence: Departmental Health Services (12 Nov 2008)

Kevan Jones: ...etc. British Forces Germany FY £ 2004-05 45,755,000 2005-06 43,790,000 2006-07 43,720,000 2007-08 45,450,000 These figures include secondary healthcare contacts with German hospitals, non-contracted extra-contractural costs, primary care contract costs with SSAFA Forces Help, and Guy's and St. Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, non contracted primary care costs,...

Written Answers — Defence: Armed Forces: Health Services (3 Nov 2008)

Kevan Jones: holding answer 11 March 2008 Defence Medical Services (DMS) only monitor waiting times for service personnel treated at NHS hospitals hosting Ministry of Defence Hospital Units (MDHUs)(1) and at the Royal Centre for Defence Medicine (RCDM)(2). Treatment at these hospitals is carried out under the MOD's Accelerated Access scheme and accounts for approximately 60 per cent. of our secondary...

[Mr. Edward O'Hara in the Chair] — Armed Forces Medical Care (17 Jul 2008)

Kevan Jones: ...8212;many are reservists or volunteers—taking such a great pride in their work, which they do with commitment and dedication. I shall cover four points. The first is the question of Selly Oak hospital. The second is how veterans are treaded in society. The third is mental health. The fourth is about operational issues to do with medical cover in Afghanistan and Iraq. The Committee's...

[Mr. Bill Olner in the Chair] — Cardiac Disease (Young People) (10 Jun 2008)

Kevan Jones: ...certain symptoms. The arguments show that screening is well overdue. CRY is setting up testing centres in different parts of the country, and I am working with it to try to get one in the Freeman hospital in the north-east. We are in negotiations on that. Having testing centres would help many families. Controversy over testing is caused by people saying that it raises anxiety levels among...

Oral Answers to Questions — Communities and Local Government: Defence Policy (16 Oct 2007) has video

Kevan Jones: ...on their very young shoulders. Sadly, some of them pay the ultimate price of losing their lives or having terrible injuries. We have heard again tonight about the "terrible" situation at Selly Oak hospital. I should like to put the following on the record, as it is important. An urban myth has built up that somehow the hospital is letting down our armed forces. Given the last two occasions...

Orders of the Day: Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Bill (22 Jan 2007)

Kevan Jones: ...local trusts in the north-east have made, they would be out on their ear at the next local elections. That is the issue. We have missed an opportunity to democratise local health provision, after the mess of foundation hospitals. I am glad that I voted against the idea when it came before the House, and I have been proved right: it did not work, and did not make health more accountable....

Written Answers — Health: Foundation Hospitals (28 Apr 2003)

Mr Kevan Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will estimate the annual costs to the trust boards of foundations hospitals of (a) maintaining and operating their lists of members and (b) conducting elections to the boards of foundation hospitals.

Foundation Hospitals (8 Jan 2003)

Mr Kevan Jones: Will my hon. Friend explain this example to me? My constituency is in the north-east. If Sunderland general hospital, which is a three-star trust, goes down the foundation route and attracts better staff and if people feel that it is better than the excellent University Hospital of North Durham, how could North Durham and neighbouring hospitals not be affected by that?