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MP meets Prime Minister to discuss fears over fate of troubled hospital
Written by ADRIAN JENKINS
BURTON’S MP has met the Prime Minister to discuss the potential effect on Burton’s Queen’s Hospital should key services be withdrawn from its scandal-hit Stafford counterpart.
Andrew Griffiths and five fellow Staffordshire MPs met David Cameron days after the trust running Stafford Hospital was put into administration by Monitor, the health regulator.
MP turns up heat on hospital over disabled parking
Written by RICH GUTTRIDGE
BOSSES at Burton’s Queen’s Hospital are refusing to budge over the controversial decision to introduce parking charges for the disabled following a challenge from the town’s MP.
Andrew Griffiths has hit out at the decision, as reported by the Mail yesterday, and has stepped up a campaign to derail the policy.
Mr Griffiths has now officially launched his petition against the measures and also revealed he had written personally to Helen Ashley, the chief executive of the NHS Trust which runs Queen’s, asking her to reconsider the move.
MP takes on Dawn's fight to get sight-saving care
Written by ADRIAN JENKINS
AN MP has asked the Government to review the availability of treatments for a rare eye condition in a bid to help a sufferer denied sight-saving care.
Burton Tory Andrew Griffiths wrote to Health Secretary Andrew Lansley after being asked for help by Dawn Thomas, a Branston mother refused medication despite its availability elsewhere.
MP demands transport plans
Written by ADRIAN JENKINS
BURTON’S MP has requested details of the transport service health chiefs promised to introduce to meet the Margaret Stanhope Centre’s closure conditions.
Andrew Griffiths asked for details of the proposed link from Burton to Tamworth and Stafford in a letter to Neil Carr, chief executive of South Staffordshire and Shropshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, which runs Burton’s psychiatric unit.
MP wants action to relieve A&E pressure
Written by JOSH TAYLOR
STAFFORD Hospital’s A&E department must be reopened to reduce the ‘untenable strain’ on medical services in Burton, an MP has said.
Conservative Andrew Griffiths has written to Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt to warn of the dangers to Burton’s Queen’s Hospital if casualty services in Stafford remain closed each night.
MP questions amount of cash spent on consultants
Written by ADRIAN JENKINS
HOSPITAL bosses have admitted spending another £820,000 on management consultants — prompting an MP to demand answers about their use of taxpayers’ money.
The spending by directors at Burton Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, which runs Burton’s Queen’s Hospital, is explained in a letter from its chief executive, Helen Ashley, to Burton MP Andrew Griffiths.
The Tory backbencher triggered the response after seeking ‘clarification’ following Ms Ashley’s admission last month that the trust had spent, or planned to spend, almost £1 million on consultants.
MP's clinic campaign support 'brings hope'
Adrian Jenkins
THE decision by Burton MP Andrew Griffiths to back the fight to save a psychiatric centre ‘has given the disempowered, marginalised and frightened real hope’, according to the campaign leader.
Dr Matt Long, head of the Friends of Margaret Stanhope Forum, spoke after Mr Griffiths said he ‘will campaign strongly’ to save the unit, located on the Outwoods site of Burton’s Queen’s Hospital, if moves are made to axe it.
MP backs campaign to save mental health clinic
Adrian Jenkins
BURTON’S Tory MP has said he ‘will campaign strongly’ to save a psychiatric centre if moves are made to axe it.
Andrew Griffiths warned he would fight for the Margaret Stanhope Centre, on the Outwoods site of Burton’s Queen’s Hospital, in a letter to the health chief overseeing a consultation on the unit’s future.
He told Andrew Donald, director of commissioning at South Staffordshire Primary Care Trust, that his fears for the centre had grown following reports in the Mail.
Standing up for the NHS
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GOVERNMENT DECLARE PATIENT CARE AS TOP PRIORITY FOR NHS
Box ticking, form filling and Whitehall bureaucracy have all been slashed in a Government shake-up of the NHS. Andrew Lansley MP, Secretary for Health, has said that some targets are to be scrapped and management costs cut almost by half as part of measures to replace waiting time targets with patient outcomes at the forefront of the NHS agenda.
Andrew Griffiths, MP for Burton, said:
