division_name: Opposition Day &#8212; [15th Allotted Day] &#8212; Management of the National Health Service
motion: <p class="" pid="e.177.3/1" pwmotiontext="yes">I beg to move,</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="e.177.3/2" pwmotiontext="yes">That this House notes the current financial crisis and associated job losses, ward and bed closures and service reductions in the NHS; believes that these are consequences primarily of the failures of management at the Department of Health; further notes the Secretary of State for Health's denial of responsibility for this situation and her failure to recognise the realities within the NHS; sees a lack of leadership within the Department of Health; and, in addition to turnaround teams in NHS Trusts, calls on the Government to appoint a turnaround team to the Department of Health.</p>
  
  <p class="" pid="e.189.0/1" pwmotiontext="yes">I beg to move, to leave out from "House" to the end of the Question, and to add instead thereof:</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="e.189.0/2" pwmotiontext="yes">"recognises the effective leadership given by the Department of Health in managing the NHS; acknowledges that the majority of NHS organisations are living within their budget and providing patients with better services; welcomes the turnaround in the NHS since 1997 as a result of the dedication and commitment of staff, backed by the Government's programme of investment and reform; congratulates the Government for trebling investment in the NHS by 2008 compared with 1997; welcomes the recruitment of more than 300,000 extra staff in the NHS since 1997 including 85,000 more nurses; notes that waiting lists are now at their lowest since records began with over 370,000 fewer patients waiting for an operation than in March 1997; further welcomes the fact that all patients can now expect to wait no longer than six months for their operation and that 98 per cent. of patients are now seen, treated or admitted within four hours in accident and emergency departments; and applauds the NHS for saving more lives than ever before. Including 43,000 more people saved from cancer and 87,000 saved from coronary heart disease."</p>
  
  <p pid="e.276.1/1" pwmotiontext="yes"><i> Question put accordingly, </i>That the original words stand part of the Question:&#8212;</p>
  
  <p pid="e.276.1/2" pwmotiontext="yes"><i> The House divided:</i> Ayes 236, Noes 309.</p>