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Clostridium Difficile

Secondary information

Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

464 c557-9 

Session

2006-07

Department

Department of Health

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

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Clostridium Difficile
Monday, 15 October 2007
Proceeding contributions
House of Commons

Proceeding contributions

Lord Lansley | 464 c557-9 (Link to this contribution) (urgent question): To ask the Secretary of State for Health to make a statement about clostridium di...

Alan Johnson | 464 c557-9 (Link to this contribution) The Healthcare Commission's report on the outbreaks of clostridium difficile at Maidstone and Tunbri...

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Alan Johnson | 464 c568 (Link to this contribution) I do not think that anything has gone wrong with the promise, in the sense that the vast majority of...

David Lidington | 464 c568 (Link to this contribution) May I remind the Secretary of State that it was as long ago as 19 July 2005 that the then Health Min...

Lord Lansley | 464 c559-62 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Secretary of State for responding to my urgent question. I am sorry that he did...

Alan Johnson | 464 c566-7 (Link to this contribution) I can give the hon. Gentleman that assurance and I know that he and his colleagues are coming to see...

Hugh Robertson | 464 c569-70 (Link to this contribution) The accusation that targets played some part in all of this was not dreamt up by the Opposition; it ...

Alan Johnson | 464 c559-62 (Link to this contribution) Let me point out that I laid a written statement this morning, although I accept that the hon. Gentl...

Greg Clark | 464 c566-7 (Link to this contribution) The report makes clear that the physical condition of Kent and Sussex hospital has contributed to th...

Alan Johnson | 464 c569-70 (Link to this contribution) That is just a variation on the Opposition policy of a moratorium on reconfigurations. In respect of...

Alan Johnson | 464 c569 (Link to this contribution) I accept that the hon. Gentleman is taking this opportunity to ask us to look again at that matter. ...

Julian Brazier | 464 c569 (Link to this contribution) Eight years ago, the Government took the decision to put the cancer ward at the Kent and Canterbury ...

Jamie Reed | 464 c567-8 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State will be well aware that the different nursing regimes that apply in different...

Alan Johnson | 464 c567-8 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right; the good practice that is going on day in, day out is essential, which is w...

David Winnick | 464 c564 (Link to this contribution) Blaming targets is an unacceptable argument for incompetence and worse, and I am glad that my right ...

Richard Taylor | 464 c567 (Link to this contribution) I accept the Secretary of State's assertion that there are more nurses employed in the NHS. Has anyb...

Norman Lamb | 464 c563-4 (Link to this contribution) I add my deepest sympathy to the families affected by this awful business. It is a traumatic and dis...

Alan Johnson | 464 c563-4 (Link to this contribution) I will consider the occupancy rate throughout the country to see whether it is causing problems, but...

Alan Johnson | 464 c570 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman's experience allows him to talk with authority about the Salmon report and the hi...

Alan Johnson | 464 c562-3 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right to talk about the clinicians, such as the medical director and th...

Alan Johnson | 464 c567 (Link to this contribution) I do not know whether such an assessment has been made, but I undertake to ensure that one is made. ...

Alan Johnson | 464 c566 (Link to this contribution) Unfortunately, I must take issue with my hon. Friend. There is no correlation between this problem a...

Alan Johnson | 464 c564 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend will appreciate that that is a matter for the police. The Health and Safety Executive...

John Hemming | 464 c568-9 (Link to this contribution) In my constituency, there is a sheltered scheme for everyone who has returned from hospital in the p...

Gwyneth Dunwoody | 464 c562-3 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State was right to take urgent action against the members who had responsibility fo...

Anne Main | 464 c570 (Link to this contribution) Is there any correlation between trusts mired in debt and those performing badly on C. diff rates? M...

Jim Devine | 464 c566 (Link to this contribution) I agree with my right hon. Friend that this is a scandal, and that we all have responsibilities. Whe...

Alan Johnson | 464 c570 (Link to this contribution) Look, there is no correlation here. The simple fact is that trusts must live within the extremely ge...

Alan Johnson | 464 c564-6 (Link to this contribution) I do agree with that. If the role of the ward sister or matron is got right, we will go a long way t...

Alan Johnson | 464 c570-1 (Link to this contribution) That is an important point that we need to look at. If the hon. Gentleman remembers, the document on...

Michael Fallon | 464 c567 (Link to this contribution) The chairman has now resigned, but is the Secretary of State aware that the chief executive was allo...

Charles Walker | 464 c570-1 (Link to this contribution) We must not be sidetracked in this debate by the question of whether cleaning is done in-house or ou...

Ann Widdecombe | 464 c564-6 (Link to this contribution) May I draw the Secretary of State's attention to the debate in the House on 23 January 2007? After l...

Alan Johnson | 464 c568-9 (Link to this contribution) I agree with all the hon. Gentleman's points about the key issues in respect of cleanliness, but I w...

Alan Johnson | 464 c567 (Link to this contribution) As I said, a strategic health authority review of the leadership is taking place and I have asked fo...

Nicholas Winterton | 464 c570 (Link to this contribution) Having opposed the Salmon report those many decades ago, which changed the role of matron, may I say...

Subjects

Disclosure of information Hospitals Finance Disease control Infectious diseases NHS MRSA Standards Clostridium Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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