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22:53 Stephen Dorrell: A&E problems are getting worse On air
On Air | Stephen Dorrell MP | Conservative MP, Chair of Comm... | Newsnight, BBC 2
Stephen Dorrell warned the problems with accident and emergency care in the UK were “getting worse”. “Crisis is a word that is best avoided, certainly for practicing politicians, but it’s undoubtedly something that is getting worse and n... Continue to article
- = Key Development Wednesday 15th May
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22:56 Stephen Dorrell: Tory party united over Europe On air
On Air | Stephen Dorrell MP | Conservative MP, Chair of Comm... |
Stephen Dorrell said he fears the electorate will perceive the Conservative party as being "disunited" over Europe, when, in fact, they are "united in delivering the Prime Minister's policy. "I could have voted for the amendment, w... Continue to article
- = Key Development Tuesday 14th May
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12:24 Chris Heaton-Harris: Bizarrely the Tories are united on Europe On air
On Air | Chris Heaton-Harris MP | | Daily Politics, BBC Two
Chris Heaton-Harris said the Tories were united on Europe. "I think, bizarrely, the parliamentary party is remarkably united, now, with the Prime Minister’s speech at Bloomberg and now with a draft bill, if you can get people across the ... Continue to article
- = Key Development Monday 13th May
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22:52 Stephen Dorrell: David Cameron's policy on Europe has not changed one iota On air
On Air | David Cameron MP | Prime Minister |
Stephen Dorrell said David Cameron was not "appeasing" rebels and that policy had not changed "one iota". "I don’t think it’s appeasement at all, I think it’s simply confirming the policy the Prime Minister put in January, that there ar... Continue to article
- = Key Development Tuesday 7th May
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13:33 Stephen Dorrell: Referendum should wait until the next parliament On air
On Air | Stephen Dorrell MP | Conservative MP, Chair of Comm... | Sky News
Stephen Dorrell said that it was important to change Britain’s relationship with the EU but stressed any referendum should wait until the next parliament. “I think what’s important is that there is a change and there is then a referendum... Continue to article
- = Key Development Friday 19th April
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15:59 In Brief Events
15:59 | Events | PoliticsHome
Health secretary Jeremy Hunt (15.30) and health committee chair Stephen Dorrell MP (10.45) speak at an AgeUK event on health and care in later life in London Care minister Norman Lamb is expected to make an announcement on care and suppo... Continue to article
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07:00 PAC: Invaluable experience and skills were acquired in Olympics Press Release
07:00| Press ReleasePublic Accounts Committee press release The Rt Hon Margaret Hodge MP, Chair of the Committee of Public Accounts, today said: "Following the extraordinarily successful 2012 London Games, a mood of confidence and pride swept the nation-a... Continue to article
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07:00 PAC: Invaluable experience and skills were acquired in Olympics Press Release
07:00| Press ReleasePublic Accounts Committee press release The Rt Hon Margaret Hodge MP, Chair of the Committee of Public Accounts, today said: "Following the extraordinarily successful 2012 London Games, a mood of confidence and pride swept the nation-a... Continue to article
- = Key Development Wednesday 17th April
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15:42 Hunt to be grilled on Leeds surgery suspension PoliticsHome News
Hunt to be grilled on Leeds surgery suspension
By Heather Spurr Jeremy Hunt will face a grilling from MPs next week on the suspension of child heart surgery at the Leeds General Infirmary, PoliticsHome has learned. Appearing before the Health Select Committee next Tuesday, the Hea... Continue to article
- = Key Development Friday 12th April
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13:29 Stephen Dorrell: Leeds General needs an indepedent and public process On air
On Air | Stephen Dorrell MP | Conservative MP, Chair of Comm... | World at One, BBC Radio 4
Stepehen Dorrell said there needed to be “independent advice publicly given” as part of the process of assessing Leeds General’s quality of service “The responsibility of the Government, of the NHS, is to ensure that there is a process t... Continue to article
- = Key Development Friday 15th March
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16:13 In Brief Events
16:13 | Events | PoliticsHome
Prime minister David Cameron and veterans minister Mark Francois present the arctic star and bomber command medals to veterans at Downing Street Energy secretary Ed Davey is expected to make an announcement on the Hinckley planning decis... Continue to article
- = Key Development Tuesday 12th March
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11:33 Committee chief blasts care service 'silos' PoliticsHome News
Committee chief blasts care service 'silos'
By Heather Spurr Health and care services are guarding data like “silos” and should do more to share information, the chair of the Health Select Committee has urged. Stephen Dorrell complained that protocols were preventing the flow o... Continue to article
- = Key Development Tuesday 5th March
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19:12 Stephen Dorrell: Sir David Nicholson made an important case about the NHS system On air
On Air | Stephen Dorrell MP | Conservative MP, Chair of Comm... | Channel 4 News
Stephen Dorrell said Sir David Nicholson had made an important case to the Health Select Committee. “The issue is whether Sir David Nicholson is the right person to manage a very complex process of change. And one of the points he made, ... Continue to article
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17:17 Stephen Dorrell: Nicholson explained that authorities weren't equipped to monitor health services On air
On Air | Stephen Dorrell MP | Conservative MP, Chair of Comm... | PM, BBC Radio 4
Stephen Dorrell defended Sir David Nicholson's evidence to the Health Select Committee today. "What it seemed to me David Nicholson was saying today was that in the West Midlands Strategic Health Authority, but actually right around the ... Continue to article
- = Key Development Thursday 28th February
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07:30 Junior doctors disruption ‘profoundly unsatisfactory’ - Health Committee chair PoliticsHome News
Junior doctors disruption ‘profoundly unsatisfactory’ - Health Committee chair
A disruptive error in the marking of NHS junior doctors’ exams is “profoundly unsatisfactory” and needs to be urgently addressed, the Chair of the Health Committee has told PoliticsHome. Stephen Dorrell said the UK Foundation Programme O... Continue to article
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26/09/2011 in NHS
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Calls for rethink on nurse degrees
Patient care in the NHS is suffering because the implications of giving nurses degree-level training haven't been "fully thought through", according to Heatlth Select Committee chair Stephen Dorrell. Mr Dorrell said not enough attention had been paid to the question of “who does the basic care” which more highly qualified nurses often no longer carry out.
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08/04/2011 in NHS
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Lansley to face nurses
Andrew Lansley will attend the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) congress next week to listen to nurses’ concerns over the Government’s health plans, PoliticsHome can reveal.
The RCN has confirmed that although the Health Secretary will not be making the keynote speech at the conference, he will take part in a seminar with rank and file staff.
The listening exercise follows the decision by the Prime Minister and the Deputy Prime Minister this week to “pause, reflect and engage” before going ahead with their controversial Health and Social Care Nill on GP commissioning.
Conservative chair of the Health Select Committee Stephen Dorrell said today that the way new GP consortia would be constituted under the Government's controversial NHS reform agenda "sounds like sofa government".
He told the Financial Times that new NHS commissioners will have budgets bigger than any council. “Would we contemplate district councils meeting in private without public access to papers and proper minutes and declarations of interest? Of course not. It is self-evident that there has to be proper governance.”
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29/09/2010 in Social Care
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Elderly 'forced to pay for care'
Chairman of the Commons health committee, Stephen Dorrell has said that vulnerable elderly people are being unfairly forced to pay for health care. Meanwhile, over 40 care homes and agencies have been shut down after action from the Care Quality Commission.
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14/09/2011 in NHS
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MPs criticise CQC
MPs have accused the Care Quality Commission of a “distortion of priorities” which saw the number of drop-in inspections fall by 70%. The report by the Health Select Committee said that the CQC faced unrealistic expectations, but chairman of the Committee Stephen Dorrell said the regulator had taken its “eye off the ball”.
The former Conservative health secretary and current chair of the health secretary Stephen Dorrell has criticised government plans to ring-fence spending on the NHS. Mr Dorrell said that ring-fencing health would mean that other areas would face deeper cuts, which would lead to greater strain on the NHS.
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