Sentences with phrase «foundation trusts»

Monitor oversees NHS foundation trusts and assesses applications for foundation status.

Monitor is currently the independent regulator of foundation trusts.

The first 10 NHS hospitals to become foundation trusts were announced in 2004.

The peers also want foundation trusts to be required to receive permission before carrying out extra private work.

He moves onto foundation trusts, the trouble isn't with trusts, it's with focusing so much on converting them that patient care slips down the list of importance.

I want to see 3 million foundation trust members by 2012 - up from 1 million today - and give them an even greater say in the workings of their trust.

In April 2007 NHS Direct became an NHS Trust, giving it the opportunity to apply for foundation trust status.

King's College hospital NHS foundation trust in south London announced on Monday that cladding at one of its buildings was being taken down following tests.

Some in the NHS claim that the surgeons» position stems in part from Lansley's bid to allow NHS foundation trust hospitals to earn as much as 49 % of their revenue from treating private patients.

And to drive up performance we will not just increase the freedoms and autonomy of our local NHS — giving hospital clinicians and GPs stronger incentives to work together and allowing foundation trusts the freedom to provide primary care services where this is in the interests of patients — but we will also increase accountability of local services to local people.

Lansley will announce the cap will be raised from October 1st, because it «prevents foundation trusts from pursuing the kind of innovations that will benefit patients in the future and put more of our hospitals on the map internationally».

Labour's Jonathan Ashworth, the shadow health secretary, highlighted news this week that the Royal Marsden foundation trust predicted it would receive an income of # 210m over two years from providing private healthcare.

They have become so common that one trust, North East London foundation trust, had a total of 633 last year — almost two a day.

It objects to the removal of the cap on how much foundation trusts can generate from private patients, fearing that access to NHS patients could be cut as a result.

12:32 - John Woodcock (Lab, chortle) asks about foundation trusts.

However, he says that more money is not always the answer, highlighting the success of Sheffield NHS health and social care foundation trust which has — by reforming services and allocating existing budgets in a different way — treated all acute mental health patients within its own district for the past three years.

When Tony Blair first sought support for independent foundation trusts nearly a decade ago, he was vehemently attacked by an unholy alliance that included elements of the Labour Party and the trade union left plus new - found friends in Britain's private hospitals.

On foundation trusts (which labour and Tories support): Has this made the PM reassess the timetable for other trusts to achieve foundation status.

«If you look at the changes we are making to the NHS - extending foundation trusts, opening up the supply of healthcare, GP commissioning and improving patient choice - these are all changes that are grinding to a slow and tortuous halt under Labour,» he said.

Monitor, in a letter to NHS foundation trusts dated 27 April and released on Thursday, said the higher efficiency savings were partly due to inflation rising above predicted levels.

«The Department acknowledged that some health trusts and some GP practices had some way to go to achieve foundation trust status or become commissioning consortia.

These financial struggles are being compounded by a drive to deliver efficiency savings worth # 20 billion, as well as the requirement for all NHS hospitals to become part of foundation trusts before 2014.

In a vote to set up foundation trusts in the English NHS, Blair's majority was cut to 35 because many English Labour MPs rebelled or failed to vote; Blair needed 67 Scottish and Welsh MPs to push the trusts through.

Other areas of concern include forcing all NHS trusts to become foundation trusts, uncertainty over whether the secretary of state will have ultimate responsibility for a comprehensive health service and the proposed «quality premium» for commissioners - which may be judged against financial performance, not well - defined quality measures.

She accepted that more should have been done by the watchdog, which gave Morecambe Bay unconditional permission to upgrade to foundation trust status in 2010.

In conjunction with his visit, Downing Street issued a statement detailing the progress made in the NHS under Labour, including a fall in waiting times, and expansion of choice and the growth of foundation trusts.

I have advised a number of NHS foundation trusts and CCGs on their governance arrangements, on the scope and limitations of their powers, and in drafting their constitutions.

The British Medical Journal has also pointed out that the bill extends powers of charging - giving consortia a general power to change for services and foundation trusts the power to charge for hospital accommodation.

And so it came to pass that Gordon Brown watered down the foundation trust bill while the Conservatives opposed it on the grounds that «it did not go far enough».

«These voices were ignored, indeed the hospital was updated to foundation trust status in this period.»

That is of course true inasmuch as New Labour converted NHS trusts into independent businesses (foundation trusts), introduced ISTCs (private treatment centres paid by public funds irrespective of the number of patients treated), gave NHS work to private hospitals and clinics and encouraged NHS patients to choose them, and developed HMO - style commissioning as in the US.

He also points out that many trusts and foundation trusts «are deep in deficit, the STPs require the closure of services and the sale of infrastructure to produce savings which the BMA estimates at # 26bn, with financial penalties for failure.»

We may see more mergers and collaboration between foundation trusts, private and the charity sector, as foundation trusts look to build capacity or outsource non-core operations.