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Ministerial statement on Tuesday, 16 May 2006, in the House of Commons, led by Andy Burnham.

Primary Care Trusts and Ambulance Trusts

Statement on primary care trusts and ambulance trusts.

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Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
446 c849-66 
Session
2005-06
Department
Department of Health
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Related items
Staffordshire Ambulance Service
Wednesday, 17 May 2006
Written questions
House of Commons
Proceeding contributions
Andy Burnham | 446 c863 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for his kind words. People have long complained about a democratic deficit wi...
Roger Berry | 446 c863 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for his statement. I join the growing number of hon. Members in all parts of ...
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Gerald Howarth | 446 c862 (Link to this contribution) Blackwater Valley and Hart PCT and North Hampshire PCT have just gone through a painful reorganisati...
Andy Burnham | 446 c862 (Link to this contribution) As my hon. Friend knows, the changes will lead to a Leeds PCT that could provide a powerful voice fo...
Paul Truswell | 446 c862 (Link to this contribution) Great concern has been expressed in Leeds about the continued development of the strong local focus ...
Andy Burnham | 446 c862 (Link to this contribution) The point of the changes is to ensure that PCTs can take a balanced view across a broad area to ensu...
Michael Fallon | 446 c862 (Link to this contribution) Given that half the beds at Sevenoaks hospital that were temporarily closed in February for financia...
Crispin Blunt | 446 c863 (Link to this contribution) The Minister has talked about the need for strong community support and coterminosity. Perhaps he wi...
Andy Burnham | 446 c863 (Link to this contribution) This is my second week in the job, and I have just discovered that I am not responsible for police, ...
Andy Burnham | 446 c864 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for another bouquet from the Back Benches, but, before I am accused of being a fraud f...
Michael Jack | 446 c864 (Link to this contribution) The consultation document on the creation of the North West ambulance service did not contain a busi...
Andy Burnham | 446 c864 (Link to this contribution) I assure the right hon. Gentleman that we will put into the public domain any information that we ca...
Tony Wright | 446 c864-5 (Link to this contribution) May I give two cheers for my hon. Friend’s announcement about Staffordshire ambulance service? It is...
Andy Burnham | 446 c865 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for his two cheers. Again, I will pass them on to others who have worked ...
Stephen Dorrell | 446 c865-6 (Link to this contribution) Can the Minister confirm that the effect of his announcement is that in future commissioning in the ...
Andy Burnham | 446 c866 (Link to this contribution) I am intrigued by the right hon. Gentleman’s line of questioning. There are very important differenc...
Lord Mann | 446 c866 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the Secretary of State on rejecting Trent strategic health authority’s aggressive cam...
Charlotte Atkins | 446 c863-4 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend has given the House absolutely brilliant news on Staffordshire ambulance service, and...
Andy Burnham | 446 c866 (Link to this contribution) I know that my hon. Friend has run a characteristically dogged and tenacious campaign on this issue ...
Andy Burnham | 446 c849-51 (Link to this contribution) With permission, Mr. Speaker, and in the unavoidable absence of my right hon. Friend the Secretary o...
Stephen O'Brien | 446 c851 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister for providing me with a copy of his statement in advance, and for putting local...
Stephen O'Brien | 446 c852-4 (Link to this contribution) Indeed, it does say it here, because that is what I wrote. First, let us look at ambulance trusts. ...
Andy Burnham | 446 c856-7 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for his constructive response. In the course of his remarks, he made the ...
Andy Burnham | 446 c854-5 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr. Speaker, and in that long speech, I will seek to pick out the points of substance tha...
Speaker | 446 c854 (Link to this contribution) Order. The Opposition spokesman took longer than the Minister. I do not want to see that practice co...
Andy Burnham | 446 c857-8 (Link to this contribution) That is proof that we listened to the hon. Gentleman’s representations. It is obviously for the cham...
Alan Milburn | 446 c857 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for his statement, which will be widely welcomed. It is good news in my const...
Andy Burnham | 446 c857 (Link to this contribution) I thank my right hon. Friend for his comments. He has done more than anybody in the House to bring a...
Jim Dobbin | 446 c858 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for his statement. He will be aware that the strategic health authority recom...
Andy Burnham | 446 c858-9 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for the hon. Gentleman’s warm welcome for the proposal. I hope that we will not see th...
Nicholas Winterton | 446 c858 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friends and am sure that the Minister got the gist of what I was saying. I...
Nicholas Winterton | 446 c858 (Link to this contribution) I warmly thank the Minister, his predecessor and the Department of Health for listening to the overw...
Andy Burnham | 446 c858 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for his comments. I am pleased that my primary care trust will still be calle...
Kevin Barron | 446 c859 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the statement and am pleased that the Government have taken notice of local consultation. ...
Andy Burnham | 446 c859 (Link to this contribution) I thank my right hon. Friend for his comments and am grateful to him for making an important point. ...
Lord Cormack | 446 c859 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister for recognising the special qualities of the Staffordshire ambulance service. W...
Andy Burnham | 446 c859-60 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes an extremely important point. He can see from the proposals that we have re...
Vincent Cable | 446 c861 (Link to this contribution) In addition to their local commissioning and partnership functions, how many national targets will t...
Andy Burnham | 446 c861 (Link to this contribution) May I pay tribute to my hon. Friend’s efforts to ensure that the voice of people in his constituency...
Tom Levitt | 446 c860-1 (Link to this contribution) I accept the logic of coterminosity between social and health services, but I congratulate my hon. F...
Andy Burnham | 446 c860 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman makes an important point. May I refer him to my statement, in which I gave ...
David Curry | 446 c860 (Link to this contribution) North Yorkshire PCT will be the third largest in the country with a population at 765,000, behind on...
Andy Burnham | 446 c860 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for those comments—more like it would be much appreciated—and for my hon. Friend’s mea...
Janet Dean | 446 c860 (Link to this contribution) I, too, welcome my hon. Friend’s statement. The people of Staffordshire will be pleased that Ministe...
Andy Burnham | 446 c861-2 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an extremely important point. General practitioners in her area are at the fore...
Andy Burnham | 446 c861 (Link to this contribution) I would make a stanch defence of targets. By providing clarity from the centre, we have been able to...
Laura Moffatt | 446 c861 (Link to this contribution) I firmly believe that the development of primary care trusts has developed a system for GPs that pro...
Steve Webb | 446 c855-6 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister for advance sight of his statement. The Government abolished health authoritie...
Charles Walker | 446 c857 (Link to this contribution) When we in Hertfordshire were faced with the prospect of one PCT, we campaigned for two, so we are d...
Andy Burnham | 446 c862-3 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman raises an important point. Competing demands must be balanced in reaching the rig...
Subjects
Ambulance services Finance Health authorities NHS Primary care Primary care trusts NHS trusts Reorganisation
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