Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Jesse Norman and Dan Poulter

Tuesday 21st October 2014 Commons Chamber

[Jesse Norman (Hereford and South Herefordshire) (Con)]

5. What steps he is taking to encourage hospital trusts to manage their PFI costs more effectively.

[The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health (Dr Daniel Poulter)]

PFI schemes have had their contracts reviewed for potential cost savings. A major data collection on the results is currently under way. In 2013, the Treasury launched a code of conduct for operational PFI contracts which contained a number of new guidelines for better working relations between the public and private sector parties.

[Jesse Norman]

Thanks to determined work with which I have been closely associated and with outside experts’ advice, Hereford hospital has managed to save several million pounds on its exorbitant PFI contract—money that is already being ploughed back into medicine and services for local people. My studies make it clear that there are hundreds of millions, if not billions, of pounds still to be saved on the PFI across other NHS hospital trusts. Will my hon. Friend press Monitor and the NHS Trust Development Authority to do everything they can to encourage hospitals to take on specialist PFI contract advisers to help them make these savings?

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Jesse Norman and Dan Poulter

Tuesday 15th July 2014 Commons Chamber

[Dr Poulter]

The most important thing in delivering local services is to ensure high-quality patient care and patient safety, so I would want the TSA’s plans to be delivered as quickly as possible to ensure that high-quality services are delivered locally and that patients’ best interests are protected.

[Jesse Norman (Hereford and South Herefordshire) (Con)]

13. What steps he is taking to improve care for people affected by stroke.

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Jesse Norman and Dan Poulter

Tuesday 10th June 2014 Commons Chamber

[The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health (Dr Daniel Poulter)]

As the hon. Gentleman will be aware, patients need to be treated according to clinical need, and bed stays should not be determined by anything other than that. So if what he describes is actually the case, it would be very disturbing. If he would like to raise the issue further with me, I would be happy to look into it for him.

[Jesse Norman (Hereford and South Herefordshire) (Con)]

T5. Like other rural communities, Herefordshire has long suffered from chronic underfunding in health care. Does the Secretary of State share my view that setting clinical commissioning group allocations should be an evidence-based process that takes into account factors including sparsity and old age? Also, will he ignore the calls from the shadow Health Secretary, who was seeking to cut the previous NHS allocations in areas such as Herefordshire?

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Jesse Norman and Dan Poulter

Tuesday 14th January 2014 Commons Chamber

[Dr Poulter]

It is the right hon. Gentleman who needs a lesson about not rewriting history. Dr Mann said that this issue had been building for the past decade. When the right hon. Gentleman was Secretary of State and before that a Minister in the Department, he failed to make those long-term work force decisions and also signed up to the European working time directive, which exacerbated the problems on medical rotas. Those were decisions that he made. He created this crisis; we are fixing it and increasing the number of doctors working in A and E.

[Jesse Norman (Hereford and South Herefordshire) (Con)]

5. What steps he is taking to promote the health and well-being of older people.