Via TheyWorkForYou, my recent question on NHS Foundation Trust mergers: Steven Baker (Wycombe, Conservative) To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether he has powers to refuse the merger of NHS foundation trusts covering two adjacent counties. Simon Burns (Minister of State (Health), Health; Chelmsford, Conservative) Under the National […]
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Meeting with Secretary of State agreed in topical questions to discuss Wycombe Hospital consultation
Yesterday, via House of Commons Hansard, Steve Baker (Wycombe) (Con): The present Wycombe hospital consultation has proceeded with a number of hiccups, not least because of the false sense of local accountability engendered by Labour’s top-down system of health management. Will the Secretary of State meet me and a small delegation […]
Read MoreVia the Bucks Free Press: ‘Public given false hopes by hospital consultation’
Via The Bucks Free Press, A CONSULTATION process over planned changes to Wycombe Hospital has given the public “unrealistic expectations”, says a Bucks MP. As the article explains, it has emerged that only clinical evidence would substantially sway these clinically-led proposals. As the article reports, I think that should have been […]
Read MoreA transport and health Parliamentary question
Further to my trip to Stoke Mandeville Hospital using the bus service from Wycombe, I asked a Parliamentary Question on the centralisation of health services and the impact this has on transport options for patients. The Minister’s reply is reproduced below: Norman Baker: The Department for Transport has received no representations […]
Read MoreA tempestuous hospital consultation meeting yesterday
The consultation meeting yesterday about changes to local health service affecting Wycombe Hospital brought doctors making the proposals and concerned residents face to face. That there were around 100 members of the general public present — which was significantly more than at other similar meetings in the county — and showed how high feelings are […]
Read MoreWycombe Hospital consultation meeting today
Wycombe’s Better Healthcare in Bucks consultation meeting is today from 10:00 to 13:00 in the King’s Centre on Desborough Road. I’ll be there and I hope the meeting will be well-attended by local people.
Read MoreComing up: Wycombe’s Better Healthcare in Bucks Consultation
Tomorrow, there will be a Better Healthcare in Buckinghamshire consultation meeting in High Wycombe at 10am at the King’s Centre on Desborough Road. I’ll be there and I hope to be joined by the many people who care passionately about our local health services.
Read MoreExploring the bus route from High Wycombe to Stoke Mandeville hospital
This morning, I took the number 300 from High Wycombe bus station to Stoke Mandeville hospital, as if for a 10 am outpatient’s appointment or a visit to an inpatient. Via the Arriva site: Stoke Mandeville Hospital is now easily reached by two services making it easy to reach for […]
Read MoreA brief history of Wycombe hospitals
With another consultation in progress on proposals to change health services in Wycombe, I despatched my researcher to discover something of the history of our hospitals. It turns out Wycombe has had three main hospitals and two smaller ones since the 19th Century. As I have said before, I would like to […]
Read MoreThe scandal of government dodging tax and employment law – in health
While consultants in the software industry have long had to worry about IR35 rules designed to promote employment and enforce higher tax rates, it seems the British Government previously chose to use just the arrangements it sought to stop. The Telegraph reports: Jonathan Baume, general secretary of the First Division Association […]
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![😡 A wise building site carpenter once said to me,
🗣️”A Labour government is the worst kind of government for the working man [and woman].”
🇬🇧 True then. True today. We battle on.](https://www.stevebaker.info/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/442413775_18432903037051538_3387178564604183858_n.jpg)
