This really is the most extraordinary proposal, that by transference of the hospitals of administration from the rates, which are collected by the boards of guardians, to county council you are making a great reform, or providing a great remedy in the Hospital Crisis with which we are faced.

I believe that we shall face an unprecedented Crisis in Our Hospitals within 10 years.

A special investigation covering all aspects of the Hospital Crisis was undertaken by the Lancashire Evening Post.

The article dealt, I grant, with the Hospital Crisis, but the Leader of the Opposition said that she would like to see in the hospital service - and we are entitled to look at her remarks as a possible Conservative answer in other areas - a cut in the number of ancillary workers, with those who are left taking a bigger share of the pay kitty.

They are appalled at headline after headline that identifies the Crisis in Our Hospitals and in south Manchester.

We are all well aware of the Crisis in Our Hospitals, but it has only just begun and things will get worse.

I repeat those words "Government policy" because in my opinion the current Crisis in Our Hospitals has been deliberately created as an act of policy.

We are back exactly where we were when we started, with a winter of Crisis in Our Hospitals.

Three years ago the health service faced a similar Crisis in Our Hospitals and that less caring, less gentle Government came up with extra money to stop the cuts.

The two most striking aspects of the debate have been, first, the extent of the pain and suffering that people must undergo because they cannot get the treatment they need because of the Hospital Crisis and, secondly, the absolute refusal of theGovernment and the new Secretary of State to acknowledge that pain and suffering.

We have before us an amendment by Her Majesty's Government which has the cheek to welcome the NHS changes and to talk about therecord numbers of patients being treated",when waiting lists are increasing, operations are being cancelled and, as we all know, across the country there is a real Crisis in Our Hospitals.

The Crisis in Our Hospitals in London has been brought about by two factors.

The reason for the Crisis in Our Hospitals and for the plummeting morale of doctors and nurses is obvious: more than one in six NHS hospital beds have been closed.

On 19 October 1995, the Ilford Recorder reported: Hospital Crisis sparks bed plea.

Their only new ideas for primary care are that GPs should take on casualty work to help out the hospitals because of the Hospital Crisis, and backing private GPs to set the standard for all other GPs.

it is a view shared by the British Medical Association, which has today published new evidence of the continuing Crisis in Our Hospitals.

That is not just our view; it is a view shared by the British Medical Association, which has today published new evidence of the continuing Crisis in Our Hospitals.

Is the Prime Minister aware of the Crisis in the Hospitals in the north area of Manchester since four out of five hospitals were closed by the Government?

There is a Crisis in the Acute Hospitals.

That has created a bed-blocking Crisis in Our Hospitals, which reached the point a fortnight ago where a 97-year-old woman had to wait two nights in casualty for a bed.

It is important to say that, because I do not want to create the impression that there is an on-going Crisis in the Hospitals.

Twenty years ago, as an unqualified social worker in a Hospital Crisis intervention team, I heard the same call for consistent responses to the needs of minority communities within the mental healthcare system.

The Crisis in Our Hospitals has worsened.

Surely that is why there is a bed blocking Crisis in Our Hospitals.

Well, 150 years on from Florence Nightingale's work in the Crimea, I think that we can fairly say that it was not the first such campaign - but what did it tell us about the Government's response to the Crisis of Hospital-acquired infection?

In his maiden speech, he rightly highlighted the plight of the health service in Manchester, Withington and what he described as the Crisis in Our Hospitals, the closure of the accident and emergency department at Withington hospital at weekends and the threats to cancer services at Christie hospital.

It is a Crisis of Hospitals.

What will he do to reverse the cuts in social care that have created the Crisis in Our Hospital?

Given that there is a Crisis in Hospitals near the border in Telford, in Shropshire, and in Cheltenham and Gloucester, where Welsh patients are traditionally sent, is it not now time for the Secretary of State to renew his efforts to get the PM to stop talking about Offa's Dyke as though it were a line between life and death?

There is a Crisis in Hospitals in Greece.