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Hospital Trusts (Essex)

Will the Secretary of State accept that the obsession with structures, trusts and foundation trusts is entirely irrelevant to the level of care that we expect in our hospitals? Will he understand that the spending of a million pounds a throw on foundation trusts is simply a waste of money, and that the best work he can do is to put more money into front-line services, get rid of all this "architecture"—I think that that is what new Labour calls it—and concentrate on delivering a health service worthy of the name?