Results 1-12 of 12 for foundation hospital speaker:Norman Lamb

Opposition Day — [11th Allotted Day]: Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust (18 May 2009)

Norman Lamb: ...performance, including effecting necessary improvements, lay and lies with the trust and its performance manager, the Strategic Health Authority, the commissioning PCT and, after the award of Foundation Trust status, Monitor. These performance managers"— it seems to me that there are too many of them— "are able to visit any trust and call for whatever information that they...

Opposition Day — [11th Allotted Day]: Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust (18 May 2009)

Norman Lamb: ...before the four-hour point, with large numbers of patients being discharged as the clocked ticked away towards it. Surely we need to explore whether the same pattern of discharge applies in other hospitals to see whether the same pressures might be applying elsewhere. The Government seem blind even to considering that possibility and so defensive about the four-hour target that they are...

Opposition Day — [11th Allotted Day]: Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust (18 May 2009)

Norman Lamb: That is the sort of evidence that needs to be properly and fully considered by a public inquiry. A few weeks ago, the press reported on the fact that some 22 hospital trusts have been given foundation trust status despite failings, sometimes of a serious nature, in meeting basic health care standards. A lot of work on Staffordshire hospital has been done by The Sunday Telegraph, which...

Opposition Day — [11th Allotted Day]: Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust (18 May 2009)

Norman Lamb: Does the hon. Gentleman share my concern at the apparent drift towards more secrecy for board meetings at foundation trusts? More and more foundation trusts are routinely excluding the public and hospital governors. That is a trend in the wrong direction; there should be more openness and more accountability.

Stafford Hospital (1 Apr 2009)

Norman Lamb: ...and under a lot of pressure, but each of them had a duty to their patients. Did any of them speak out at any stage? What happened about the clinicians who were responsible for care in those hospital units? Has action been taken in respect of any of them, or have we quietly moved on? As the hon. Gentleman said, the comments of the British Medical Association are not adequate to address the...

Stafford Hospital (1 Apr 2009)

Norman Lamb: I am sorry, but I do not have time. Surely there is a duty on the Government to look beyond what happened in that hospital and consider other factors, such as the four-hour target. Wherever I go in the country, I am told by hospital clinicians that, yes, the four-hour target has been beneficial, but I am also told about the bullying culture that surrounds its enforcement. If the Government...

Oral Answers to Questions — Health: NHS Chief Executives (24 Mar 2009) has video

Norman Lamb: Whenever the chief executive of a failing trust, such as the Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust, is suspended it raises questions about where responsibility really lies. Is not the Patients Association right to repeat the demand for an independent inquiry, looking particularly at the regulation and supervision of hospital care? Is that not particularly the case in the light of the letter...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust (18 Mar 2009) has video

Norman Lamb: ...being reminiscent of the workhouse, which is a shocking comparison to make. There has clearly been an absolute dereliction of the duty of care, which should shock us all. Stafford is not a private hospital, for which we can all blame uncaring shareholders. This is the NHS, and that is what makes it so utterly shocking. I, too, pay tribute to the relatives who refused to be fobbed off and...

Opposition Day — [15th Allotted Day]: NHS (60th Anniversary) (24 Jun 2008) has video

Norman Lamb: ...of income, should have the same access to care, based on need, not on ability to pay. As the other two Members who have spoken have acknowledged, it was a Liberal, William Beveridge, who laid the foundation stones of the NHS. It is a pity that the Liberal Democrats have not yet had the opportunity to administer the national health service, but one day our turn will come. We should never be...

Orders of the Day: Health and Education (13 Nov 2007)

Norman Lamb: ...so far has been for Whitehall to determine the needs of the patient. My view, and my passion, is that patients should be empowered to make decisions about their health care, not just about which hospital to be treated in, but about all aspects of their treatment. I was fascinated to see the Conservative amendment. It refers to empowerment, but is that empowerment of patients? No, it is...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Health and Social Care (10 Oct 2007)

Norman Lamb: ...overdue. There are many people languishing on incapacity benefit who could be helped back to work but who are not getting the help that they need. I also welcome the announcement on screening for hospital-acquired infections—a necessary change. I hope the Secretary of State agrees that there should be a zero tolerance of low hygiene standards, following the Dutch example, which nails...

Opposition Day — [13th Allotted Day]: NHS IT Programme (6 Jun 2007)

Norman Lamb: ...situation or failing to acknowledge the concerns of people working in the system about the problems that are occurring here and now. In April this year, 79 doctors and admin staff in Milton Keynes hospital wrote that the patient administration system was "not fit for purpose". It was reported in May this year that the Royal United hospital in Bath had still not had its Cerner software...