Results 1-7 of 7 for foundation hospital speaker:Hywel Williams

Orders of the Day: Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Bill [ Lords] (19 Jun 2006)

Hywel Williams: ...but short speech. I too shall try to be short. The Bill is significant for us in Wales because of the abuse scandals that have occurred in Wales, and the results of those scandals. We had the Ely hospital scandal in the 1960s, which led to the establishment of the all-Wales strategy for people with learning difficulties. There were the child abuse scandals in north Wales, and there were...

Orders of the Day — Smoking in Public Places (Wales) Bill (18 Mar 2005)

Mr Hywel Williams: ...in favour of the ban, by 39 to 10, with representatives of all four parties supporting it. It should also be noted that the Bill has received the support of BMA Cymru Wales, the British Heart Foundation, Cancer Research, Action on Smoking and Health and many others. Yet although we are pressing for this piece of legislation, we will be left waiting. I am sure that the people of Wales will...

Written Answers — Health: Foundation Hospitals (16 Jul 2003)

Mr Hywel Williams: To ask the Secretary of State for Health in what way foundation hospitals in England will be accountable to their patients from Wales.

Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill: Clause 1 — NHS Foundation Trusts (8 Jul 2003)

Mr Hywel Williams: My party's standpoint is abundantly clear, as is that of the Scottish National party: we do not want foundation hospitals in Wales or Scotland and we are worried about cross-border effects. As was said earlier, the standpoint of the newly democratically elected Labour Government in the National Assembly for Wales is clear: they are against foundation hospitals. As the hon. Member for...

Oral Answers to Questions — Wales: National Health Service (4 Jun 2003)

Mr Hywel Williams: What discussions has the Secretary of State had with colleagues here and in Cardiff about the impact of the establishment of foundation hospitals along the border with Wales? What has been the effect of recruitment of staff from Welsh hospitals, and the treatment of patients from Welsh hospitals in the English foundation hospitals?

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

Mr Hywel Williams: ...considered, as it came up in a recent conference in Cardiff and was certainly an issue for the outgoing Minister for Health and Social Services in the Assembly. Under the Bill, Wales will have no foundation hospitals—we have that on the authority of no less a personage than Mr. Rhodri Morgan, newly triumphant in the polls, who said that Wales will be a foundation hospital-free zone....

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

Mr Hywel Williams: ...refer to that later in my speech. Unfortunately, given the recent election results, my party is scarcely in a position to think in those terms. If the Prime Minister is right and we are to have foundation hospitals in Wales, I do not see how that can be achieved in the face of opposition from the Labour party in Wales and my party. We might wonder what the red water of independence might...