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Written Question
Members: Correspondence
Thursday 19th March 2015

Asked by: John Stanley (Conservative - Tonbridge and Malling)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will issue a direction to the Chief Executive of NHS Care Services to reply to the letter of 13 February 2015 sent by the right hon. Member for Tonbridge and Malling to his company's Head of Communications, Dr Belinda Webb-Blofeld, for urgent response.

Answered by Jane Ellison

We understand my Rt. hon. Friend is referring to NSL Care Services.

Departmental offcials have passed my Rt. hon. Friend’s concerns to the local National Health Service.

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Tuesday 6th May 2014

Asked by: John Stanley (Conservative - Tonbridge and Malling)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what specific steps he will take to place the Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust on a stable and secure long-term financial footing.

Answered by Dan Poulter

The National Health Service Trust Development Authority (TDA) is working with the Trust to determine its financial recovery plans. The Trust's five year sustainability plan is currently being developed, and is due to be submitted on 20 June 2014.

The NHS TDA has also been involved in the recruitment of the Trust's new Finance Director, and is supportive of the appointment of the Trust's Turnaround Director.

NHS West Kent clinical commissioning group is also working with the Trust to ensure its future sustainability.

Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 16 Oct 2012
Tonbridge Hospital/Edenbridge Hospital

"It is a pleasure to see you in the Chair, Mrs Osborne.

My constituents are most fortunate in that they have within my constituency geographical boundary not one community hospital, but two. We have the Edenbridge and District War Memorial hospital, and Tonbridge Cottage hospital. Both were founded between the …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 16 Oct 2012
Tonbridge Hospital/Edenbridge Hospital

"The league of friends and I have pursued these issues in detail over a considerable period with the local PCT. Does the Minister not agree that under primary legislation, the Secretary of State ultimately has a responsibility for addressing issues of NHS trusts’ compliance with statute?..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 16 Oct 2012
Tonbridge Hospital/Edenbridge Hospital

"Before the Minister concludes, will she respond to my request that before Ministers take a final decision on whether individual hospital properties go to NHS providers or NHS Property Services Ltd, they consult on the proposed final destination of the properties, so that local people have an opportunity to express …..."
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