HC Deb 26 February 2002 vol 380 c1098W
31. Richard Burden

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will make a statement on the implementation of the NHS Plan in Birmingham. [34732]

Yvette Cooper

The NHS Plan is being implemented by the Birmingham health economy in a coherent and strategic way. The strong history of partnership working across Birmingham has allowed the local modernisation review process to continue to modernise and develop services for local people.

Plans for the development of acute services in the south of the city are well under way, and the emerging primary care trusts will build on the work already undertaken to improve the health and well-being of the people of Birmingham.