Adjournment debate on Thursday, 10 May 2007, in the House of Commons, led by Kevin Barron. The answering member was Andy Burnham.

Independent Sector Treatment Centres

Westminster Hall debate on a motion for the adjournment on independent sector treatment centres.

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Type: Parliamentary proceeding
Reference: 460 c139-82WH
Session: 2006-07
Department: Department of Health
Chamber / Committee: Westminster Hall
Related items: Independent sector treatment centres. Government response to the Health Select Committee fourth report of session 2005/06 (HC 934).
Wednesday, 25 October 2006
Command papers
House of Commons; Independent Sector Treatment Centres. Memoranda in the form of evidence laid before the Health Select Committee.
Thursday, 16 February 2006
Parliamentary committees
House of Commons
Proceeding contributions: Hugh Bayley | 460 c150WH (Link to this contribution) I rise not as a Committee member but as the representative of a constituency that has an independent...; Howard Stoate | 460 c150WH (Link to this contribution) Does not it also drive a coach and horses through the idea of additionality? If the same consultants...; Hugh Bayley | 460 c150-1WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a valid point, and I hope that the Minister will respond both to that and to th...; Kevin Barron | 460 c151WH (Link to this contribution) Has Capio given any percentages for the number of local clinicians and doctors who are prepared to r...; Richard Taylor | 460 c154-6WH (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for City of York (Hugh Bayley), who put his finger on sev...; Hugh Bayley | 460 c151-4WH (Link to this contribution) I have not asked Capio that question, and it has not volunteered the answer, but my right hon. Frien...; Howard Stoate | 460 c156WH (Link to this contribution) Surely, if the work is part of the job plan and is therefore part of the NHS work load, how can capa...; Richard Taylor | 460 c156-8WH (Link to this contribution) Capacity could be increased because there are occasions when theatre lists are not used completely b...; Richard Taylor | 460 c158WH (Link to this contribution) That is one of the many questions that I hope the Minister will answer. I have talked for long enoug...; Charlotte Atkins | 460 c158-60WH (Link to this contribution) Not surprisingly, the Committee’s report concluded that there are major benefits to separating elect...; Hugh Bayley | 460 c158WH (Link to this contribution) I did indeed get the figure of 84 per cent. from the Government response. The Government are saying ...; Howard Stoate | 460 c161-5WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my right hon. Friend the Member for Rother Valley (Mr. Barron), the Chair of the Heal...; Andrew Murrison | 460 c165-9WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the Chairman and members of the Health Committee on producing the report, which is ex...; Howard Stoate | 460 c160WH (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree with me that there is a perverse incentive for companies on a take or pay ...; Charlotte Atkins | 460 c160-1WH (Link to this contribution) Absolutely. They are not willing even to contact patients on another hospital waiting list or to ove...; Kevin Barron | 460 c170WH (Link to this contribution) Witnesses made anecdotal allegations with no evidence whatever, and we asked them about that not on ...; Andrew Murrison | 460 c170WH (Link to this contribution) We must give the British Orthopaedic Association and the other professionals some credit for being o...; Kevin Barron | 460 c170WH (Link to this contribution) If the British Orthopaedic Association does not have evidence to back up its emotive language and th...; Andrew Murrison | 460 c170-2WH (Link to this contribution) I am not sure whether Angus Wallace, professor of orthopaedic surgery at Nottingham university medic...; Richard Taylor | 460 c177WH (Link to this contribution) I certainly welcome that relaxation. However, it still bothers me that the rules are not being relax...; Andy Burnham | 460 c177-80WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman raises an important point, and of course we keep such matters under review. He is...; Andy Burnham | 460 c172-6WH (Link to this contribution) I thank all right hon. and hon. Members who have contributed to the debate. They are an eminent gath...; Andrew Murrison | 460 c176WH (Link to this contribution) Why has the delay been so appallingly bad that the Nuffield group has pulled out of the west midland...; Andy Burnham | 460 c176-7WH (Link to this contribution) Let me give the hon. Gentleman some further information. Since Nuffield was appointed as preferred b...; Hugh Bayley | 460 c180WH (Link to this contribution) Will the Minister explain why his ability to get value for money would be limited if we knew what th...; Kevin Barron | 460 c182WH (Link to this contribution) With the leave of the House, I want to thank everyone who has taken part in the debate, particularly...; Andy Burnham | 460 c180-1WH (Link to this contribution) If the figures for any one contract were placed in the public domain, that would limit the Departmen...; Andy Burnham | 460 c181-2WH (Link to this contribution) I will not, because I want my right hon. Friend the Member for Rother Valley to have some time to co...; Andrew Murrison | 460 c181WH (Link to this contribution) Will the Minister give way?; Kevin Barron | 460 c139-41WH (Link to this contribution) This is my first debate in this or any other place where you have been in the Chair, Dr. McCrea. It ...; Andrew Murrison | 460 c141WH (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman said that there had been insufficient data gathering in and around ISTCs. H...; Kevin Barron | 460 c142WH (Link to this contribution) And still do. None the less, we tried to get the evidence, although only through adverse results of ...; Gordon Prentice | 460 c142WH (Link to this contribution) Is it not simply scandalous that we are pressing ahead with the second wave of ISTCs, even though th...; Kevin Barron | 460 c142WH (Link to this contribution) On the face of it, I would agree with the hon. Gentleman. Some clinicians were clearly drawing those...; Howard Stoate | 460 c142WH (Link to this contribution) Just to echo that point, we did seek evidence for the allegations being made that there was a higher...; Gordon Prentice | 460 c144WH (Link to this contribution) The summer.; Kevin Barron | 460 c144-5WH (Link to this contribution) In the summer—presumably he means summer 2007. I hope that he is right; that weakness among all side...; Kevin Barron | 460 c142-4WH (Link to this contribution) I stand by what we said in the report, and would therefore concur with my hon. Friend. Later, I will...; Gordon Prentice | 460 c147WH (Link to this contribution) Before the hon. Gentleman moves off that point, the Government told us in their response to the repo...; David Amess | 460 c145-7WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my colleagues on producing yet another splendid report. However, I do not congratulat...; Speaker | 460 c145WH (Link to this contribution) That is not a point of order. It is up to hon. Members whether they desire to attend the debate.; Andrew Murrison | 460 c145WH (Link to this contribution) On a point of order, Dr. McCrea. I am wondering whether the self-styled party of effective oppositio...; David Amess | 460 c147-9WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has helpfully fired a missile right at the point that I was trying to make. The M...; Gordon Prentice | 460 c149WH (Link to this contribution) Was the hon. Gentleman frustrated by the Committee’s inability to look at the terms of the contract ...; David Amess | 460 c149-50WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Member for Pendle has flushed out that point. Yes, the Committee was concerned about it. Su...
Subjects: Health services NHS Patients Waiting lists Treatment centres
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Independent Sector Treatment Centres

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