South Glamorgan Health Authority Applications For Trust Status

EDM number 1845 in 1992-93, proposed by Rhodri Morgan on 22/04/1993.

That this House is concerned at the upside-down way in which South Glamorgan Health Authority has itself set up three trust steering groups with only marginal connections with the provider units concerned to oversee the preparation of application for trust status at the University Hospital of Wales and Cardiff Royal Group of Hospitals, the community and priority nursing unit, and Velindre Cancer Hospital; and believes that this imposition of those steering groups by the health authority by secondment of senior staff on the relevant hospital or community health units entirely contradicts the Ministerial sales line on the spontaneous desire for self-management for those hospitals and community units and is an indication of how little there is in common between the reality of opinion at the hospital coalface on the one hand and the cosy world of health ministers and top management of the National Health Service establishment on the other.

This motion has been signed by a total of 30 MPs.