Hospitals: Domestic Visits
(asked on 23rd May 2018) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 23 May 2018 to Question 145570, if he will publish a list of which private hospitals (a) Ministers and (b) Special Advisers of his Department have visited in each of the last 18 months; and what the subjects of those visits were for each of those hospitals so listed.
A list of visits made by Ministers over the past 18 months to private hospitals and the subject matter of those visits is shown in the following table.
A special adviser has visited the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston and Vanderbilt University Medical Centre, Nashville to discuss technology and innovation.
No other Ministers or Special Advisers have undertaken such visits during the past 18 months.
Title of Minister | Private Hospital | Subject of Visit |
The Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Jackie Doyle-Price) | Newton House, Independent Hospital, Blackpool. | To visit locked rehabilitation services, and meet staff and service users |
The former Minister of State (Mr Philip Dunne MP) | Texas Medical Centre, Texas, USA | Tour and discussion on service delivery and innovation |
Texas Children’s hospital, Texas, USA | ||
MD Anderson Cancer Centre, Texas, USA | ||
Visit to Brigham and Women’s hospital, Boston, USA | ||
Spaulding Rehabilitation hospital, Boston, USA | ||
Children’s Hospital, Boston, USA | ||
Vanderbilt University medical centre, Nashville, USA |