Tag: NHS Cambridgeshire

Government Damaging The NHS

10:17 Thursday 27th September 2012
Mid Morning Show
BBC Radio Cambridgeshire

RONNIE BARBOUR: Looking for your experiences and thoughts about the NHS this morning, six months on from the Health and Social Care Bill, paving the way for the biggest changes since it was formed in 1948. Cambridgeshire has led the way in giving GPs and private companies a bigger role in our treatment. On line, Martin Booth works at Addenbrookes Hospital, and is a member of Unison. Martin welcome to the programme.
MARTIN BOOTH: Good morning.
RONNIE BARBOUR: Changes are inevitable in all walks of life, but this is quite a massive one. Is your union going to endorse it, embrace it? Continue reading “Government Damaging The NHS”

Andrew Lansley in BBC Ding Dong Over Circle Deal

08:18 Wednesday 1st February 2012
Peterborough Breakfast Show
BBC Radio Cambridgeshire

PAUL STAINTON: NHS history has been made in Cambridgeshire today. Hinchingbrooke Hospital in Huntingdon has become the first in the country to be run by a private company. Circle are working in partnership with the hospital NHS Trust to provide services, manage staff and repay some of the £40 million debt. Circle are announcing 16 new initiatives this morning proposed by hospital staff to improve patient care, safety and efficiency, they say. Well earlier we spoke to Phil Gooden from Unison, who described the move as a disaster for the NHS, and called for more details to be released. (TAPE)
PHIL GOODEN: On the surface you can’t argue with it. Greater patient experience, greater staff engagement, free telephone service, all this sort of stuff, but what it’s not doing is proposing in any detail how the £40 million is going to be recovered. (LIVE)
PAUL STAINTON: Well let’s speak to the man in charge of our health service, Cambridgeshire MP and Health Secretary Andrew Lansley. Morning.
ANDREW LANSLEY: Good morning.
PAUL STAINTON: Well how? How are they going to repay this £40 million Andrew, first of all? Continue reading “Andrew Lansley in BBC Ding Dong Over Circle Deal”

A Severe Case of Boardroom Bloat at NHS Peterborough and Cambridgeshire

07:33 Monday 16th August 2011
Peterborough Breakfast Show
BBC Radio Cambridgeshire

ANDY GALL: More on the ongoing GP surgeries consultation at NHS Peterborough. The Primary Care Trust is looking at closing and expanding certain surgeries, as it looks to save money. Well one set of campaigners angry at the possible closure of Alma Road surgery say other bigger Trusts in places like Manchester and Liverpool only have 6 or 7 Executive Directors, but NHS Peterborough have 12. We can speak now to Geoff Catlin who is one of those campaigners. Good morning Geoff.
GEOFF CATLIN: Good morning Andy.
ANDY GALL: So why do you think NHS Peterborough has too many directors? Continue reading “A Severe Case of Boardroom Bloat at NHS Peterborough and Cambridgeshire”

Peterborough News 8th December 2010

A summary of the Peterborough Breakfast Show from BBC Radio Cambridgeshire broadcast from 06:00 to 09:00 on Wednesday 8th December 2010.

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Full Council meeting tonight: concerns have been raised that Neighbourhood Councils will in future receive funding only as a by-product of housing developments in the ward.
The local LibDems are of the opinion that the current Conservative administration is suffering from a bout of megalomania.
As the numbers of homeless are predicted to rise, Peterborough Soup Kitchen wants a city-centre facility for the homeless, just as Cambridge do. The Council Leader thinks it’s a great idea, which doesn’t necessarily mean that anything will happen.
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Peterborough News 26th November 2010

A summary of the Peterborough Breakfast Show from BBC Radio Cambridgeshire broadcast from 06:00 to 09:00 on Friday 26th November 2010.

Topics:
A conflict of interest row is brewing after it was announced that Marco Cereste Leader of Peterborough City Council has taken up the Chairmanship of Larkpoint, which is involved in construction in the city. A question has also been raised over Mr Cereste’s level of commitment to his Council role, given the number of outside interests he pursues.
Osborne, who are engaged in the refurbishment of Cathedral Square and a year behind schedule, have responded to claims that some of their work is also unsatisfactory.
Guild House in Oundle Road, a 50,000 sq ft. building with a glass facade on a four acre site, is in the process of being refurbished and renovated, and will provide a training centre for 500 Anglia Ruskin student nurses when it opens in March.
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Peterborough News 10th November 2010

A summary of the Peterborough Breakfast Show from BBC Radio Cambridgeshire broadcast from 06:00 to 09:00 on Wednesday 10th November 2010.

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Investigators into the multi million spend by Peterborough City Council on consultants, in an inquiry originally launched in March of this year and promised by September, defend their decision to delay publishing their findings again, for another three months, until February 2011.
The ousted Chairman of the Scrutiny Committee wonders why after almost a year he still has no straight answers to his questions about Peterborough City Council’s use of consultants.
Peterborough City Council is one of the local authorities planning to turn off street lighting to save money.
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Peterborough News 4th October 2010

A summary of the Peterborough Breakfast Show from BBC Radio Cambridgeshire broadcast from 06:00 to 09:00 on Monday 4th October 2010.

Topics:
Queensgate Centre Manager Roger Hutchins leaves after six years to pursue other interests in East Devon.
Two companies Serco and Circle are now in the running to operate Hinchinbrooke Hospital.
Peterborough United FC brought three points back from Carlisle over the weekend.
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Peterborough News 1st October 2010

A summary of the Peterborough Breakfast Show from BBC Radio Cambridgeshire broadcast from 07:00 to 09:00 on Friday 1st October 2010.

Topics:
Accent Nene have submitted revised plans for the Thurston House site on Lincoln Road which retain the facade of the old building and the view from Lincoln Road. Council originally approved demolition, but a campaign by Stewart Jackson MP, Cllr. John Peach and the Civic Society has saved the building from demolition.
The GP Consortia scheme launched in Cambridgeshire gives control of budgets to groups of GPs who will effectively choose services from competing providers. Some within the BMA and elsewhere view it as a step towards privatisation of the NHS.
The recordings from an inquest into the death of a local man treated by a locum GP and which are required by the family for further legal proceedings have been inexplicably lost.
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