Finchley Memorial Hospital

HC Deb 18 July 1995 vol 263 c1445

11. Mr. Booth

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will make a statement about the Finchley Memorial hospital. [33189]

Mr. Bowis

The Finchley Memorial hospital is an excellent example of a community hospital providing a range of services to local people including rehabilitation and respite care, out-patient clinics and therapy services.

Mr. Booth

My hon. Friend commends the Finchley Memorial hospital as a community hospital and for its excellent work. In launching the neighbouring community hospital in Edgware, will he hold up the Finchley Memorial hospital as an example of best practice, and so take the scare out of the scaremongering of Opposition Members?

Mr. Bowis

My hon. Friend is absolutely right. The hospital is part of a pattern for the modern health service in providing community services, and those services have been backed by a further £15 million of primary care from Barnet health authority. That should provide a pattern for the future of which my hon. Friend can be proud.