Labour's lying Lord- Baron Warner health minister
Norman Reginald Warner- Baron Warner (PC) was born 8 September 1940 and is a Labour member of the House of Lords. One of Tony's Cronies he was created Baron Warner of Brockley in the London Borough of Lewisham on 29 July 1998 and has been a Minister of State at the Department of Health since the summer of 2003. He was appointed to the Privy Council in June 2006, and was sworn in on 19 July 2006.
Before entering the House of Lords he was Director of Social Services for Kent County Council between 1985 and 1991. In the mid 1990s he was Senior Policy Adviser to Jack Straw when he was the Home Secretary. He has also held the Chair of the Youth Justice Board, National Council for Voluntary Organisations and the London Region Sports Board.
His posts under Labour include:
* Minister of State (Reform), Department of Health (23 May 2006 to 3 Aug 2006)
* Minister of State (NHS Delivery), Department of Health (9 Jan 2006 to 23 May 2006)
* Minister of State, Department of Health (11 May 2005 to 9 Jan 2006)
* Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Department of Health (13 Jun 2003 to 11 May 2005)
Other Lord Warnerisms where is was economical with the truth include:
On waiting times- "Almost everyone in England can now see a GP within 48 hours". Lord Warner put the figure at 99.98 per cent.
Strangely a YouGov poll for The Daily Telegraph suggested that almost half of patients cannot get an appointment to see a family doctor within two days, despite the fact that this is supposed to be a key Government achievement. August 22, 2005 Fantasy of the 48 hour wait to see a GP
when Labour ministers were accused of living in "a fantasy world" after new evidence contradicted Government claims that almost everyone can see a GP within 48 hours.
The survey of nearly 2,500 adults also indicated that there is little public support for Tony Blair's idea that patients should be given a choice of hospital.
On Labour's red tape costs- Lord Warner, the health minister, said foundation trusts would not be charged administration fees for labour's red tape surveys "because it has always been clear that foundation trusts are part of the NHS".
December 01, 2004 Private hospitals face 60% rise in inspection costs when private hospitals and treatment centres, including those that treat National Health Service patients, are to be charged the full cost of their inspection and regulation as part of the government's efficiency drive.
"If everyone is working to the same NHS tariff, then everyone should face the same regulatory costs," said the forum. Without that the competition would not be fair, it said. Where the full cost of inspection had been introduced in Wales, the few private facilities there had seen a 60 per cent jump in the cost, the forum said. The department estimated fees in England covered only 40 per cent of the cost of inspections.
On the balkanisation of the NHS- Lord Warner accepted that a procurement notice mighty have given a "false impression". As a result, he said, the advertisement had been withdrawn because of "drafting errors". However, the department was unable to spell those out yesterday.
July 01, 2006 NHS reform falters as Labour ministers pull advert- when the sense that the Labour government is losing its grip on plans to reform the National Health Service gathered momentum yesterday as ministers pulled a procurement notice inviting the private sector to bid to purchase NHS services in the face of all-out opposition from unions. Patricia Hewitt, the health secretary, and Lord Warner, minister for NHS reform, said there had been "drafting errors" in the advertisement.
On the trebling of the cost of the NHS's new IT system: "The national contracts remained on budget, he said. But they essentially covered the infrastructure and applications and not the additional local spending needed to train staff, buy computer screens, assimilate existing systems and convert data and other costs."
Much like buying a new car- without the steering wheel and controls. And about as useful.
May 31, 2006- Health service faces up to costly IT operations when the National Health Service is likely to spend close to £20bn over the next decade on its ambitious programme to create an electronic record for every patient in England, Lord Warner, the health minister in charge of the programme, has said yesterday.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Warner%2C_Baron_Warner
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld199798/minutes/981012/ldminute.htm
http://www.theyworkforyou.com/peer/lord_warner
Before entering the House of Lords he was Director of Social Services for Kent County Council between 1985 and 1991. In the mid 1990s he was Senior Policy Adviser to Jack Straw when he was the Home Secretary. He has also held the Chair of the Youth Justice Board, National Council for Voluntary Organisations and the London Region Sports Board.
His posts under Labour include:
* Minister of State (Reform), Department of Health (23 May 2006 to 3 Aug 2006)
* Minister of State (NHS Delivery), Department of Health (9 Jan 2006 to 23 May 2006)
* Minister of State, Department of Health (11 May 2005 to 9 Jan 2006)
* Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Department of Health (13 Jun 2003 to 11 May 2005)
Other Lord Warnerisms where is was economical with the truth include:
On waiting times- "Almost everyone in England can now see a GP within 48 hours". Lord Warner put the figure at 99.98 per cent.
Strangely a YouGov poll for The Daily Telegraph suggested that almost half of patients cannot get an appointment to see a family doctor within two days, despite the fact that this is supposed to be a key Government achievement. August 22, 2005 Fantasy of the 48 hour wait to see a GP
when Labour ministers were accused of living in "a fantasy world" after new evidence contradicted Government claims that almost everyone can see a GP within 48 hours.
The survey of nearly 2,500 adults also indicated that there is little public support for Tony Blair's idea that patients should be given a choice of hospital.
On Labour's red tape costs- Lord Warner, the health minister, said foundation trusts would not be charged administration fees for labour's red tape surveys "because it has always been clear that foundation trusts are part of the NHS".
December 01, 2004 Private hospitals face 60% rise in inspection costs when private hospitals and treatment centres, including those that treat National Health Service patients, are to be charged the full cost of their inspection and regulation as part of the government's efficiency drive.
"If everyone is working to the same NHS tariff, then everyone should face the same regulatory costs," said the forum. Without that the competition would not be fair, it said. Where the full cost of inspection had been introduced in Wales, the few private facilities there had seen a 60 per cent jump in the cost, the forum said. The department estimated fees in England covered only 40 per cent of the cost of inspections.
On the balkanisation of the NHS- Lord Warner accepted that a procurement notice mighty have given a "false impression". As a result, he said, the advertisement had been withdrawn because of "drafting errors". However, the department was unable to spell those out yesterday.
July 01, 2006 NHS reform falters as Labour ministers pull advert- when the sense that the Labour government is losing its grip on plans to reform the National Health Service gathered momentum yesterday as ministers pulled a procurement notice inviting the private sector to bid to purchase NHS services in the face of all-out opposition from unions. Patricia Hewitt, the health secretary, and Lord Warner, minister for NHS reform, said there had been "drafting errors" in the advertisement.
On the trebling of the cost of the NHS's new IT system: "The national contracts remained on budget, he said. But they essentially covered the infrastructure and applications and not the additional local spending needed to train staff, buy computer screens, assimilate existing systems and convert data and other costs."
Much like buying a new car- without the steering wheel and controls. And about as useful.
May 31, 2006- Health service faces up to costly IT operations when the National Health Service is likely to spend close to £20bn over the next decade on its ambitious programme to create an electronic record for every patient in England, Lord Warner, the health minister in charge of the programme, has said yesterday.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Warner%2C_Baron_Warner
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld199798/minutes/981012/ldminute.htm
http://www.theyworkforyou.com/peer/lord_warner
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