Andrew Lansley

“Hospitals will face financial penalties if patients are readmitted as an emergency within 30 days of being discharged, under government plans.”

“Over the last ten years emergency readmissions have increased by 50 percent. Not, it seems, primarily because patients were more frail, but because hospitals have been incentivised to cut lengths of …”

“Under the new plans hospitals would receive funding for the first hospital stay plus treatment for the patient's first 30 days after discharge.”

“He said he had been consistently told the unit should be maintained during meetings with staff and people in Bury over the past four years.”

“In particular, I have today asked the NHS locally to take no further action to close the maternity service at Fairfield and instead, to plan on the basis of the prospective choices of mothers to be i…”