Ivan Lewis: ...Commission and to rely on the good faith of a company that has been involved in this kind of activity. What lessons have been learnt from this sorry episode? In matters of media ownership and mergers, politicians should never again fulfil a quasi-judicial role. Market share and power, and not simply plurality, must now be at the heart of the debate we are to have on the future. We welcome...
Ivan Lewis: Project closure occurs for a number of reasons including: completed delivery; evaluation that further expenditure will not deliver sufficient value-for-money for the project to remain viable; merger with another project; transfer of the project to another donor. For the financial years 2001-02 to 2005-06 inclusive, the information requested is not held centrally and could be provided only at...
Ivan Lewis: ...Trust are a matter for the local national health service. The information requested about South Central strategic health authority's (SHA's) assessment of the clinical and financial effects of a merger between the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre and another health organisation is not collected centrally. The SHA has advised that it is committed to working with its partners in the local health...
Ivan Lewis: Information is not available prior to 2005-06. Due to trust mergers and demergers, data are not comparable. The number of beds available at Suffolk Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust in 2005-06 was 205 and in 2006-07 it was 258. The reduction in mental health bed numbers reflects the increasing provision by the national health service in England of treatment for patients with mental health...
Ivan Lewis: ...will, in previous years, have been included within an 'other/miscellaneous' category. They are for redundancy, but it is not known whether all costs included will relate to redundancy following mergers or re-organisation. The second (stand-alone) measure is 'PCT reorganisation; redundancies and early retirement'. It is expected that these are costs relating to organisations involved in mid...
Ivan Lewis: The Department has not made an assessment of the impact of strategic health authority mergers on the access to, and use of, the £3 million capital allocation to purchase dual X-ray absorptiometry scans from the private sector. The Department no longer views the detailed monitoring of cash allocations as the best way forward. Instead, we are focusing on benefits to patients and the national...
Ivan Lewis: ...to high-quality, responsive services. As my hon. Friend said, the history of the coming together of four primary care trusts is difficult because each of the four had a deficit at the point of merger. Therefore, it was never going to be an easy management task for the leadership of the new PCT. I am pleased that he praised the leadership of the PCT and the hospital trust for the way they...
Ivan Lewis: ...September 2005. At that time 3,645 qualified nursing, midwifery and health visiting staff were employed by University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust. This trust was formed in 2000, through the merger of the three NHS trusts of Leicester Royal Infirmary, Glenfield hospital and Leicester general hospital. Figures for the three individual hospitals are not available post-2000. In September...
Ivan Lewis: ...legal basis for the provision of NHS continuing health care will remain the same regardless of which criteria is used. We would not anticipate a change in an individual's eligibility following the merger of the SHAs as long as their assessed health care needs have not changed. The public consultation on the national framework for NHS continuing health care closed on 22 September. We have...
Ivan Lewis: ...figures for 2001-02 and earlier years up to 1998-99 are the total activity for RR9 and RTA. It is not possible to provide comparable data for RTR in years earlier than 2002-03 due to a complex merger that took place to set up RTR in 2002-03. RVW did not exist prior to 1999-2000. There is no data in the HES database for RVW for 2001-02. 2. Finished consultant episode (FCE). An FCE is...
Ivan Lewis: ...Residential data are for Bexley authority. (2) Nursing data in 1997 are for Bexley health authority, whereas nursing data for 2001 are for the Bexley and Greenwich health authority. This followed a merger of the two Health authorities Bexley and Greenwich health authority; the number of nursing homes in Greenwich was not recorded in 1997. (3) Nursing data include places in general nursing...
Ivan Lewis: ...of the Exchequer announced in his Budget statement made on 16 March 2005 that CSCI and the Healthcare Commission will merge to form a single inspectorate for health and social care. The planned merger reflects increasingly close collaboration on the ground between people working in these two fields. It also reflects shared objectives for the highest possible standards for everyone using...
Ivan Lewis: ...College and Middlesbrough College to merge and to form Middlesbrough College has been submitted by the LSC to the Secretary of State. A feasibility study has been completed into the possible merger of Oxford College and North Oxfordshire College. The LSC has proposed that an area wide review of provision should be carried out before any decisions are made. Additionally, the organisation of...
Ivan Lewis: ...Higher Education (HE) Institutions. They are: New Institutions The Brooke House Sixth Form College (FE) The Conservatoire for Dance and Drama (HE) New Institutions established as a result of the merger of existing Institutions The Bolton Sixth Form College (FE) The Leicester College (FE) The East Durham and Houghall Community College (FE) The Harrow College (FE) The Wiltshire College (FE)...
Ivan Lewis: ...This expenditure is contained within the costs of departmental publications. Advertising costs given do not include spending by agencies. Some figures for 1995–96 are not available because of the merger of the Employment Department and Department for Education. Real term expenditure is calculated using 1999–2000 base year prices. All the expenditure given in the answer is from...