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John Hemming MP for Yardley has tabled a motion in the house of commons calling for an "urgent and public review by the government of the financial status of the NHS so that urgent remedial action can be taken."

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John Hemming, MP for Birmingham Yardley

John Hemming MP for Yardley has tabled a motion in the house of commons calling for an "urgent and public review by the government of the financial status of the NHS so that urgent remedial action can be taken."

"All the reports I receive", he said, "indicate that there is a growing and urgent problem caused to the Primary Care Trusts by the implementation of payment by results. The more time that is taken to resolve this problem the harder it will be to resolve it. The government needs to move quickly to both tell everyone what is happening and also to work out how to resolve it."

ENDS

Text of EDM

EDM

John Hemming

Title: Financial Crisis in the Health Service

That this house notes persistent statements from health service managers implying that both 25% of NHS bodies are insolvent and that the NHS in aggregate is insolvent, recognises that much of this results from simplistic, ideologically driven meddling in the operation of the Health Service which has been underpinned by a failure to understand where market mechanisms are appropriate and where they are not appropriate and calls for an urgent and public review by the government of the financial status of the National Health Service so that urgent remedial action can be taken.

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