Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust

Lord Walney Excerpts

Tuesday 26th March 2013 Commons Chamber

[Mr Hunt]

Yes, I can confirm that. My hon. Friend is right, because part of the big change that we need is to see a big increase in provision of domiciliary care, and an increase in the standard of that care.

[John Woodcock (Barrow and Furness) (Lab/Co-op)]

The Secretary of State talks about severance and follow-on employment. Does he think it is acceptable that when the former chief executive of Morecambe Bay hospitals trust had to step down in February last year, because of the problems there, he was kept on the books in secret and paid £250,000 from local trust budgets—which could otherwise have gone to local health care—and was transferred to the NHS Confederation where his responsibilities could include teaching future leaders and helping to redesign the system?