Results 1-17 of 17 for foundation hospital speaker:Richard Taylor

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

Richard Taylor: ...37 states that "Many clinical staff told us of their concerns about the quality of care at the trust and gave specific examples." Further on, the report states: "In September 2006, a paper to the hospital management board highlighted how the one in two on-call rota, with the two consultants taking turns to cover, was not tenable." Page 45 refers to the same paper's reference to the...

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

Richard Taylor: ...to levels of nursing staff. It says: "In 2002, the review of clinical governance by the Commission for Health Improvement pointed out that the number of nurses was low compared with other similar hospitals." It also says: "In 2005, the trust had more wards with below the national average number of nurses than wards with above the average, by almost two to one." Anybody who reads page 93...

Written Answers — Health: Patient Advice and Liaison Services: Manpower (31 Mar 2009)

Richard Taylor: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many full-time equivalent staff are employed in the patient advice and liaison services of each NHS (a) hospital trust and (b) foundation hospital trust.

NHS Resources (18 Mar 2009)

Richard Taylor: ...as opposed to the situation with other preventive measures. One thing that they are doing involves the better care, better value indicators, which originally identified 10 general practitioner and hospital practices through which we could save the country about £2 billion a year if best practices were followed for all of them. I should very much like to know the progress of those...

Points of Order: Summer Adjournment (22 Jul 2008) has video

Richard Taylor: ...best treatment protocols. The second is compassion, which includes dignity and kindness. The third is communication: communication between clinical staff and patients and their relatives at home and in hospital, and communication between hospitals and GPs and between GPs and hospitals. An article in this week's British Medical Journal asked: "Can we call this failure of information...

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

Richard Taylor: ...was to put the patient to bed and hope. Patients were kept in bed for four to six weeks, and if they did not get a pulmonary embolism, the doctor was really lucky. I was working at the London chest hospital when external cardiac massage was discovered. We were staggered by its effectiveness; people were awake when we did it. I was involved with the very first pacemakers used. Since then,...

Opposition Day — [15th Allotted Day]: Management of the National Health Service (9 May 2006)

Richard Taylor: I take that point. The debate is about management of the NHS, so I shall refer first to reforms. In 2002-03, the Health Committee's report inquiring into foundation trusts started with a table quoted from the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, which listed the reforms that had taken place between 1982 and 2003 under Governments of different colours. There were 12 reorganisations...

NHS Reorganisation (7 Feb 2006)

Richard Taylor: ...only the answer that the Government wanted. One question, about the shifting of care, asked "To what extent do you support or oppose providing more services closer to home including community hospitals, if this means that some larger hospitals concentrate on specialist services and some merge or close?" Of course, not many would vote against that proposal, but if people had been given the...

Young People and Democracy (9 Mar 2004)

Dr Richard Taylor: ...clearly alluded to such conduct in that debate. Another example would be that of a debate on a very difficult issue that is derailed by being taken into the fields of party politics, of which the foundation hospitals Bill was an absolute classic. When this House considered Lords amendments to the Bill, we spent little time debating foundation hospitals; instead, it became an issue of party...

NHS Performance Indicators (7 Jan 2004)

Dr Richard Taylor: ...performance indicators and some of the possible unwanted effects of the system. As other hon. Members have pointed out, the indicators are incredibly important; the ratings carry rewards and foundation trust status. As an aside, it is no wonder that staff who are about to receive foundation status welcome it—it brings rewards. However, that high importance can bring risks. The Royal...

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

Dr Richard Taylor: ...I agree that it is vital to decentralise control, but the proposal is the wrong way of decentralising services. It is wrong because it drives a wedge between primary and secondary care, and between hospitals, at exactly the time when the Government are looking for partnerships, collaboration and networking. It is ill thought out because of the lack of patient forums, at exactly the time...

NHS Hospitals (10 Jun 2003)

Dr Richard Taylor: ...pretty crude. Community health councils, as the Minister knows very well, were valuable, with their visits, tours of inspection and reports. The charter mark institution was invaluable, because a hospital that applied for a charter mark got it only if everybody involved—including the patients—was consulted. Possibly the most important measure of quality that was, and still is,...

Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill (7 May 2003)

Dr Richard Taylor: ...hit by 17 reorganisations since 1982. Surely primary care trusts are due a certain amount of time to get used to their new role before having to contend with another new organisation in the form of foundation trusts. I have to examine my conscience. If there were still a hospital trust in my constituency, I could well be speaking on the other side of the argument. The trust that was in my...

Written Answers — Health: Reconfiguration of Hospitals (27 Jan 2003)

Dr Richard Taylor: To ask the Secretary of State for Health when the document on reconfiguration of hospitals will be published; and whether it includes an assessment of the place of foundation hospitals in the re-organisation of hospital services.

Foundation Hospitals (8 Jan 2003)

Dr Richard Taylor: ...because the tsar of cardiac services told us how waiting lists for cardiac surgery are improving. The hon. Member for Oxford, West and Abingdon (Dr. Harris) said that there is one good point about foundation hospitals, and I agree. That one extremely good point is devolution. Most hon. Members want much more power to be given to local people. I was interested in a recent intervention in...

Regions, Transport and DEFRA (19 Nov 2002)

Dr Richard Taylor: ...of charges on social services departments for delayed discharges. The national health service may be at fault, and indeed is at fault on many occasions. I know of an 81-year-old lady who went into hospital. Although her treatment finished after five days, she was in hospital for three weeks and two days because no effort was made to engage in discharge planning. I could also give examples...

Decision-making in the NHS (5 Nov 2002)

Dr Richard Taylor: ...consultation was then carried out to force measures through. The authority had a closed mind to any alternative. It used spin and half-truths to force measures through. It said that a comprehensive hospital would remain in Kidderminster, but normal people would not consider a hospital to which they could not go for any in-patient emergency treatment comprehensive. Statistics were used in...