§ Mr. SimsTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list the names of those people appointed to be chairmen and non-executive directors of national health service trusts.
§ Mr. MaddenTo ask the Secretary of State for Health when he intends to announce the names of those appointed to the chair and trustees of the Bradford NHS trust:, and if he will make a statement.
§ Mrs. Virginia BottomleyI have today placed in the Library a list of appointments to those trusts established today. A list of those people to be appointed as chairmen and non-executive directors of the trusts to be established on 21 December will be placed in the Library shortly.
§ Mr. Robin CookTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if the procedure followed for public consultation62W for second wave trust will differ from those in the first wave; and if hospitals which were not approved in the first wave will be obliged to put any second wave applications out for public consultation.
§ Mrs. Virginia BottomleyThe procedure to be followed for public consultation for second wave trusts will not differ from the first wave. The applications from those hospitals and units which were not approved in the first wave have already been the subject of full public consultation. It would, therefore, suffice for the region concerned to write to the bodies to whom it had sent the original consultation document, stating that my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State would be willing to consider trust status subject to specific issues having been addressed, specifying the conditions and seeking further comments.