Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 20 Jun 2018
Gosport Independent Panel: Publication of Report
"Does not every instance of people being scared to speak out and relatives finding it too difficult to complain underline the importance of the Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch, which the Secretary of State has established? I remind him that I am chairing the Joint Committee of both Houses that is …..."Bernard Jenkin - View Speech
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Written Question
Monday 11th December 2017
Asked by:
Bernard Jenkin (Conservative - Harwich and North Essex)
Question
to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the Government's policy is on the future of (a) NHS Property Services Ltd and (b) Community Health Partnerships; what the purpose and remit is of each of those organisations; and for what reasons their functions have not been amalgamated.
Answered by Philip Dunne
NHS Property Services Ltd (NHSPS) was established and became operational on 1 April 2013 to hold many of the properties that had been owned by the primary care trusts that were abolished at that time under the Health and Social Care Act 2012. The ongoing high level objectives for NHS Property Services Ltd can be broadly summarised as:
- The provision of a high quality property service and the achievement of significant efficiency savings; and
- Timely and value for money disposals of assets declared surplus by the National Health Service to release capital for investment for the benefit of frontline NHS services.
Community Health Partnerships (CHP) was established much earlier to improve access to community based health and social care services by improving the NHS estate through public private partnerships established by the NHS Local Improvement Finance Trust (LIFT) programme.
CHP is the public sector shareholder in each of the 49 LIFT Companies across England, which currently provide 339 serviced buildings for the provision of primary and community healthcare. In 2013, CHP became head tenant for the NHS LIFT estate, collecting the rents and ensuring that the buildings are adequately managed to support the provision of the services delivered in them.
Sir Robert Naylor’s review of the NHS estate published in March 2017 recommended the establishment of a ‘powerful new NHS Property Board’. The Government is giving careful consideration to the recommendations of the Naylor Review and will respond in due course.
Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 14 Mar 2017
Primary Care: North Essex
"I am most grateful to the hon. Gentleman for inviting us to take part in his debate, and I commend him for securing it. We are now in the throes of the so-called sustainability and transformation plans, which are being constructed on the acknowledgment, confirmed by the Boston Consulting Group, …..."Bernard Jenkin - View Speech
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 14 Mar 2017
Primary Care: North Essex
"A moment ago the Minister mentioned some extra money for primary care. Who is responsible for investing that money? Does it come from NHS England and not from the CCG? How do we influence how that money is spent, so that there is some accountability in the process?..."Bernard Jenkin - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 02 Feb 2017
Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee
"I am grateful for the opportunity to present to the House the seventh report of PACAC this Session, “Will the NHS Never Learn?”, a follow-up to the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman report on the NHS in England, “Learning from Mistakes”.
Over the past decade, written complaints regarding NHS services …..."Bernard Jenkin - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 02 Feb 2017
Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee
"I confess I am not sighted on the proposal to cap litigation costs, but people resort to litigation only because they feel that their complaints are not being heard and that the problems they have identified in the service are not being addressed. People resort to litigation because they do …..."Bernard Jenkin - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 02 Feb 2017
Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee
"I am most grateful to my Welsh hon. Friend for his question. It gives me an opportunity to highlight not only my agreement with the point that he makes, but that this is just about healthcare safety investigations in England. By pursuing this policy to set up HSIB, the Government …..."Bernard Jenkin - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 02 Feb 2017
Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee
"I certainly agree that the vast majority of our constituents who experience the care of hospitals or GP practices are extremely grateful for the quality of care that they receive. However, we cannot underestimate how corrosive the blame culture has been throughout our health system. Crises such as those at …..."Bernard Jenkin - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 02 Feb 2017
Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee
"I am most grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his question and for his support. I am also extremely grateful to my Committee for its work on this report.
I hesitate to lose the progress that we have made. We have approved the appointment of the chief investigator of HSIB, …..."Bernard Jenkin - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 02 Feb 2017
Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee
"I am most grateful to the Minister for his question and for the fact that he has personally appeared at the Dispatch Box today with his opposite number from Her Majesty’s Official Opposition. I know that his presence here underlines the commitment of the Secretary of State to this programme …..."Bernard Jenkin - View Speech
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