Health - Second Report
Here you can browse the report together with the Proceedings of the Committee. The published report was ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 29 April 2003.
CONTENTS
Terms of Reference
REPORT
SUMMARY
INTRODUCTION
Report outline
1. WILL THE PROPOSED CHANGES BRING ABOUT
IMPROVEMENTS
FOR PATIENTS WHO ARE TREATED BY FOUNDATION TRUSTS?
How will management freedoms benefit the
patients of Foundation Trusts?
Will the proposals increase resources for
Foundation Trusts?
Social ownership
Membership of a Foundation Trust
Who will the members be?
What will membership really mean?
How will the Board of Governors work?
What if the Board of Governors is divided?
Local interests versus wider priorities?
The costs and benefits of democracy?
Lack of patient and public involvement forums
A marriage of convenience?
2. WHAT IMPLICATIONS WILL THE PROPOSED CHANGES
HAVE FOR
PATIENTS BEING TREATED IN THE REST OF THE NHS?
Are local communities being sufficiently
consulted?
Implementing Foundation Status across the
NHS
The Star ratings system
A system which is "fundamentally flawed",
"too blunt an instrument"?
Two-stars missing out
Star-stability
Managing performance within Foundation Trusts
Rolling out the system
Promoting integrated and non-hospital based
care - will Foundation Trusts reinforce divides?
Foundation Trust status for other NHS organisations
PCT capacity
Will competition corrode co-operation?
Will patient choice ultimately drag resources
away from poorer-performing hospitals?
Will staffing freedoms lead to inequities?
Inequitable access to resources - will this
compound health inequalities?
3. CONCLUSIONS
LIST OF RECOMMENDATIONS AND CONCLUSIONS
ANNEX
Background to Foundation Trusts
PROCEEDINGS OF THE COMMITTEE RELATING TO
THE REPORT
LIST OF WITNESSES
MINUTES OF EVIDENCE
Thursday 6 February 2003
Thursday 11 February 2003
Tuesday 4 March 2003
LIST OF MEMORANDA INCLUDED IN THE MINUTES
OF EVIDENCE
LIST OF APPENDICES TO THE MINUTES OF EVIDENCE
APPENDICES
LIST OF MEMORANDA REPORTED TO THE HOUSE BUT
NOT PRINTED
LIST OF REPORTS OF THE HEALTH COMMITTEE IN
THE CURRENT PARLIAMENT
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