HC Deb 14 December 1989 vol 163 cc795-6W
Mr. Gerald Bowden

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if, pursuant to his answer on 28 November,Official Report, column 228, he will name the 20 hospitals who will move into full resource management in this financial year; if he will give details of the programme for the remaining sites; and if he will make a statement.

Mr. Freeman

I am able to announce the names of 20 hospitals which will proceed further with the implementation of resource management. This involves the purchase of computerised databases and nurse information systems in this financial year. All these hospitals have been preparing for resource management since my announcement in March 1989 that we were extending the programme. I am pleased we have made such rapid progress. This is a tribute to the hard work of the Health Service and augurs well for the future. The hospitals are:

Region and hospital

Northern

  • Darlington Memorial
  • Royal Infirmary, Sunderland
  • Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle
  • North Tyneside General

Yorkshire

  • Airedale General Hospital
  • York District General Hospital
  • St. James's University Hospital, Leeds
  • Pontefract General Infirmary

Trent

  • Sheffield Children's Hospital
  • Northern General, Sheffield
  • Chesterfield and North Derbyshire Hospital
  • Doncaster Royal Infirmary
  • Leicester Glenfield

East Anglian

  • Addenbrookes

South East Thames

  • Greenwich District Hospital
  • St. Thomas' Hospital

Oxford

  • Radcliffe Infirmary

Mersey

  • Southport District General Hospital
  • Whiston St. Helens Hospital
  • Leighton Hospital, Crewe

Of the remaining sites I expect that the 30 sites of the original 50 announced in March 1989 will themselves move to full resource management during 1990–91. I expect others to join them and the National Health Service management executive is finalising details of a further 50 hospitals which will commence their preparation for resource management as soon as possible. This preparatory phase is crucial in determining how to involve doctors in the management of hospital resources with the aim of improving patient care; the management executive is discussing with the JCC what guidance can be given on this.

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