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Gove, Lord
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If she will make a statement on the future of Surrey's hospitals.
If she will make a statement on the future of Surrey's hospitals.
Asked by
Lord Gove
(Conservative)
Answered by
Caroline Flint
(Labour)
Answering body
Department of Health
Oral questions - Lead
Status
Answered
Tabled on
12 July 2006
For answer on
18 July 2006
Answered on
18 July 2006
NHS organisations in Surrey recognise that health services must change and adapt to meet the challenges of the 21st century. The local NHS is therefore looking at how it organises, delivers and uses health care, as part of creating an NHS fit for the future programme. Any proposals that emerge from the review will be subject to a full public consultation later this year, probably in the autumn.
Subjects
Hospitals; Finance; NHS; Surrey
Date
18 July 2006
Reference
449 c147; 85849
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
House
House of Commons
I thank the Minister for her answer. She will be aware that the Prime Minister visited Frimley Park hospital in my constituency only last month to congratulate the workers of Surrey NHS on the superb service that they deliver. However, only last week primary care trust representatives told me and colleagues from Surrey that there would have to be cuts in all five of our district general hospitals, and that one of those hospitals might have to close. Can we have a guarantee from the Minister that hospitals will not close in Surrey as a result of the Minister’s mismanagement of NHS funding?
I thank the Minister for her answer. She will be aware that the Prime Minister visited Frimley Park hospital in my constituency only last month to congratulate the workers of Surrey NHS on the superb service that they deliver. However, only last week primary care trust representatives told me and colleagues from Surrey that there would have to be cuts in all five of our district general hospitals, and that one of those hospitals might have to close. Can we have a guarantee from the Minister that hospitals will not close in Surrey as a result of the Minister’s mismanagement of NHS funding?
Asked by
Lord Gove
(Conservative)
Answering body
Department of Health
Oral questions - 1st Supplementary
Status
Answered
Answered on
18 July 2006
I am sure that there are some excellent examples of service in Surrey. The hon. Gentleman is coming to see me next Tuesday, I understand, to talk through some of his concerns. I cannot promise what he asks. It is important that we ensure that hospitals are fit for service. For example, I know that in north Surrey there has already been the relocation from acute community settings, dermatology services and vascular surgery services. In north Surrey there is a full service that provides out-of-hospital support for older people, particularly, who fall through therapy and ambulance services that work together to prevent hospital admissions.
There are different approaches, which I saw in Doncaster on Friday. There are community matrons. Ken and Bill, two of my constituents, each had half a dozen visits to hospital last year. This year, they have not attended hospital. That is the sort of service that we want. We want hospitals that work for the community and services that we hope can keep people out of hospital and enable them to enjoy better health for much longer.
Subjects
Hospitals; Finance; NHS; Surrey
Date
18 July 2006
Reference
449 c147-8
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
House
House of Commons
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what steps she has taken to aid the provision of training schemes for Surrey Heath residents over 50 years old.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what steps she has taken to aid the provision of training schemes for Surrey Heath residents over 50 years old.
Asked by
Lord Gove
(Conservative)
Answered by
Phil Hope
(Labour)
Answering body
Learning and Skills Council for England
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Tabled on
19 December 2005
For answer on
9 January 2006
Answered on
1 February 2006
We are committed to safeguarding a wide range of adult learning opportunities in every area, including provision for learners over 50, and we will ensure that adult learning provision in Surrey Heath is provided through the funding from the Learning and Skills Council (LSC) to further education colleges, local authorities and other providers. As this is an operational matter, Mark Haysom, the LSC's Chief Executive has written to the hon. Member with further information and a copy of his reply will be placed in the House Library.Letter from Mark Haysom, dated 23 January 2006:"I refer to the written reply by Phil Hope to your Parliamentary Question. The Minister has asked that I write to you with further information.""Adult and Community Learning (now called Personal and Community Development Learning) is an important source of provision for older people. We are safeguarding funding for this provision for future years.""For other forms of provision, the LSC has agreed clear funding priorities with the Government as public resources are necessarily finite. Our highest priorities are to support increased participation and achievement of 16–18 year olds and to support adults without skills for life and full level 2 qualifications which are important for basic levels of employability. Many older people come within these latter priority categories and around a quarter of enrolments in LSC funded provision in Surrey are by people over the age of 50.""Surrey County Council, our Adult and Community Learning provider in the county, has developed provision for older people in two communities with high levels of multiple deprivation, one of which is in Surrey Heath. Building on earlier work by the Pre-Retirement Association, the purpose of these was to develop a transferable and innovative curriculum of recreational learning to encourage older people to regard learning and skills acquisition as a positive and natural accompaniment to growing older. Amongst other things, this led to the formation of an ‘older and bolder club1 for health activities and recreation. The University of the Third Age has a presence in Surrey Heath to encourage lifelong learning for older people not in employment and relevant courses are also delivered by the WEA (with funding from the LSC.)""To help shape future provision, the Surrey Lifelong Learning Partnership has run focus groups on our behalf, involving older learners, to identify provision of particular interest. Analysis of needs against provision on a geographic basis means that we can now identify where there is relatively high and low participation in learning for over 50s to provide a basis for review of future provision.""Our future provision in Surrey will also be influenced by our South East Region's annual statement of planning priorities in which we have a commitment to ““pilot curriculum opportunities for older workers to change their occupations or extend their careers””. To this end, we are developing a project, with European funding support, to identify different ways of delivering learning to older people. This will include targeted information, advice and guidance and the development of courses specifically to meet the needs of older people seeking to extend their careers.""Looking further forward, demographic changes—with fewer young people entering the labour market and an expectation of longer working life—mean that, nationally, we will need to provide a broader programme of support for older people to keep their skills up to date. We will be working with the Department for Education and Skills to define and plan the nature of this broader support.""I hope this further information is helpful."
Subjects
Adult education; Finance; Training; Surrey
Date
1 February 2006
Reference
39769; 442 c503-4W;442 c503-4W
House
House of Commons