Financial Crisis In Pembrokeshire Nhs

EDM number 1186 in 1993-94, proposed by Nick Ainger on 09/05/1994.

That this House is appalled that the Independent Review of the Pembrokeshire NHS Trust and Pembrokeshire Health Authority by the Chief Executive of Clwyd Health Authority and the Finance Director of the Maelor Hospital Trust concluded that a minimum of ú750,000 per annum has been diverted from purchasing health care for the Pembrokeshire population into additional purchasing management costs, that administrative costs increased by 90 per cent. in two years and that there was a significant increase in the salaries of a number of senior managers in the trust's first operational year; believes that the financial crisis this caused has significantly affected patient care, including a 100 per cent. increase in the number of people waiting over one year for in-patient treatment and that the possible loss of up to 100 jobs from the trust will undoubtedly reduce the provision of patient care; and therefore calls on the Secretary of State for Wales immediately to provide funding for the 2.9 per cent. pay rise for nurses, doctors and midwives, to establish an independent public inquiry into the running of health care in Pembrokeshire, to instruct the trust not to make anyone redundant until that inquiry is complete and to remove his appointees from the two health quangos should they fail to do the honourable thing and resign.

This motion has been signed by a total of 49 MPs.