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Debate between Lord Lansley and Heather Wheeler(14 years ago)
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Mr Lansley
Perhaps I can remind the right hon. Gentleman that the major part of the reorganisation is to eliminate strategic health authorities and primary care trusts, to focus resources on the front line, to get them into the hands of those who are responsible for delivering care and, in the process, to deliver £1.9 billion a year of savings on administration costs.
Heather Wheeler (South Derbyshire) (Con)
12. What steps he is taking to prioritise funding for dementia research from his Department’s research budget.
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Debate between Lord Lansley and Heather Wheeler(14 years, 5 months ago)
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Heather Wheeler (South Derbyshire) (Con)
I welcome my right hon. Friend’s statement. Only yesterday, I wrote to him regarding a constituent in South Derbyshire who had gone through a four-hour wait and was then admitted, to make sure that the four-hour rule was not broken, and had to stay in a ward for six hours and see even more people when he could have been on a bus going home much earlier. There are lessons to be learned across the whole country, and I look forward to the report coming through.
Mr Lansley
I am grateful to my hon. Friend. We will take not only the clear evidence from the first Francis report, but evidence from many other places, including that from many of the leading clinical professions that the way in which the four-hour target has been administered has undermined the quality of patient care. We will focus on quality and help the NHS to deliver what it knows is the right quality.