Sentences with phrase «conservative health secretary»

The Conservative health secretary, Andrew Lansley, promised the food industry he would not impose regulations they disliked.

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Former Conservative health secretary Andrew Lansley has revealed he has bowel cancer, and has called on the government to improve the NHS's current screening programme for the disease.

Not exact matches

«Most people will see this bill for what it is — a cynical attempt to deflect growing public concern about the behaviour of rich corporate lobbyists representing hedge funds and private health companies, many of whom donate substantial sums to the Conservative party,» general secretary Frances O'Grady said.

Television footage of the health secretary being heckled and jostled by angry protesters outside Downing Street yesterday could have attracted support from the 57 % of Lib Dems and 31 % of Conservatives who said they were opposed to the changes.

Would - be health secretaries, Labour's Andy Burnham, Conservative Andrew Lansley and Liberal Democrat Norman Lamb answered questions from nurses, doctors, NHS workers, health experts, and members of the public.

The Health Secretary has gradually moved, partly under pressure from Conservative backbenchers, to put some of the blame where it belongs - on the consequences of Labour's command and control targets regime.

On Friday, 50 MPs, including 34 Conservatives, wrote a letter to the Health Secretary, Andrew Lansley, expressing their «serious concerns» with the Department of Health's proposal to introduce plain packaging for tobacco products.

David Cameron's bid to detoxify the Conservatives on the NHS this weekend has been undermined by his health secretary's abortion comments.

What some may have missed is the strong support given to the Health Secretary by Conservative backbenchers.

Hunt, South West Surrey's MP, has been Britain's Health Secretary since September 2012 prior to which he spent more than two years as the Conservative Party's Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport Secretary.

Launching the recent Conservative Draft Health Manifesto, Shadow Health Secretary Andrew Lansley recognised the current problems in the NHS, noting that under Labour, health inequalities have widened and public health problems, such as obesity and alcohol abuse, are increasing at soaring Health Manifesto, Shadow Health Secretary Andrew Lansley recognised the current problems in the NHS, noting that under Labour, health inequalities have widened and public health problems, such as obesity and alcohol abuse, are increasing at soaring Health Secretary Andrew Lansley recognised the current problems in the NHS, noting that under Labour, health inequalities have widened and public health problems, such as obesity and alcohol abuse, are increasing at soaring health inequalities have widened and public health problems, such as obesity and alcohol abuse, are increasing at soaring health problems, such as obesity and alcohol abuse, are increasing at soaring rates.

How surprised we all were, therefore, when the Conservative - Liberal Democrat government, with Tory health secretary Andrew Lansley at the helm, proposed exactly that.

Health Secretary John Reid has said that voters at the next election have a real choice to make between Labour and Conservative health Health Secretary John Reid has said that voters at the next election have a real choice to make between Labour and Conservative health health plans.

[14][15] When the Conservative Party won the 1979 general election, he was appointed Parliamentary Under - Secretary of State at the Department of Health and Social Security.

Health secretary Andy Burnham and his Conservative and Liberal Democrat shadows Andrew Lansley and Norman Lamb appeared together on BBC1's The Politics Show to discuss the state of their proposals.

The health secretary used his keynote speech to defend the party's record on the NHS and question whether the Conservatives could be trusted with the institution.

Conservatives «must deliver for the NHS», the shadow health secretary has insisted, amid a row about the party's plans for privatising the service.

A future Conservative government would spend an additional # 28 billion a year on the NHS, shadow health secretary Andrew Lansley has pledged.

«This is a real vote of confidence in the Conservative party's policies for the NHS, from the people who have the greatest day to day responsibility for caring for patients,» said shadow health secretary Andrew Lansley.

While the Health Secretary denied that the report endorses Labour's vision, he said there were large parts of it that Labour and the Conservatives «can agree on».

Andrew Lansley was elected the Conservative MP for South Cambridgeshire in May 1997 and introduced controversial sweeping reforms of the NHS when he was Health Secretary between 2010 and 2012.

Representative Tom Price (R — GA), the orthopedic surgeon and six - term congressman who President - elect Donald Trump yesterday picked to be his secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), is a conservative spending hawk and fierce opponent of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and abortion.

Mary Bousted, general secretary of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers, told a Conservative party conference fringe event, hosted by Schools Week and the Education Policy Institute (EPI) on Wednesday, that the DfE's «latest thinking» was that it should «reinstate in local authorities the same functions that they have for health».