Sentences with phrase «health minister in»

The Expert Council advises the federal health minister in analyzing medical and economic impacts of new developments and technologies.

Part of that process has seen the departure of Ms Kennedy, Liverpool Wavertree MP, who has quit the government before - as health minister in 2006 over NHS reforms.

Consequently, five new ministers, including Sir Ara Darzi — a consultant surgeon who became a health minister in the House of Lords, Sir Digby Jones — a former director general of the CBI who became minister of state for trade and investment and Sir Alan West — the former head of the Royal Navy who became a security minister at the Home Office.

On 8 October 2013, Abbott was sacked as shadow public health minister in a reshuffle by Labour leader Ed Miliband, [29] and replaced as Shadow Public Health Minister by Luciana Berger.

I am two and a half stone lighter which, as a former shadow public health minister in the Scottish Parliament, is just as well, given how much time we witter away about taking personal responsibility for one's own health!

In 1984, Harman became a Shadow Social Services minister and served as a Shadow Health minister in 1987.

Norman Lamb: Liberal Democrat MP and former health minister in the coalition government was the only MP to speak.

On the other side of the fight is an old sparring partner, Michael Moore, who was an independent but also health minister in Carnell's government.

Lord Fowler was Margaret Thatcher's health minister in the 1980s when she introduced Section 28, which stopped teachers referring to gay relationships as «normal».

Take for example Quebec Premier Bernard Landry, who appointed David Levine as a junior health minister in 2002 only to see him lose a by - election shortly afterward.

The Health Star Rating scheme was initially signed off by Federal, State and Territory food and health ministers in June 2013 and was expected to be implemented under a voluntary code run by the grocery industry body the Australian Food and Grocery Council.

The response to a joint consultation held on behalf of health ministers in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland on front of pack nutritional labelling.

Asked why WHO convened the emergency committee only this week, WHO Assistant Director - General Keiji Fukuda this morning said the organization was initially focused on coordinating the response on the ground and on raising awareness and drumming up political support, for instance at a meeting of health ministers in Accra in early July and a meeting with Chan and West African presidents last week.

A significant domestic application of the right to health in an Australian domestic context occurred with the endorsement of the Australian Charter of Healthcare Rights (the Charter) by Australian health ministers in July 2008.

Not exact matches

In a country that has been devoutly Catholic for centuries, Varadkar is Ireland's first openly gay leader; his coming out in 2015, when he was the country's Minister for Health, was a key factor in clinching the law to legalize gay marriagIn a country that has been devoutly Catholic for centuries, Varadkar is Ireland's first openly gay leader; his coming out in 2015, when he was the country's Minister for Health, was a key factor in clinching the law to legalize gay marriagin 2015, when he was the country's Minister for Health, was a key factor in clinching the law to legalize gay marriagin clinching the law to legalize gay marriage.

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, a leading candidate to be the next World Health Organization director - general, is facing a stunning allegation: covering up three cholera outbreaks in his home country of Ethiopia while he was its health minHealth Organization director - general, is facing a stunning allegation: covering up three cholera outbreaks in his home country of Ethiopia while he was its health minhealth minister.

«Our teenagers consume nearly a bathtub of sugary drinks each year on average, fuelling a worrying obesity trend in this country,» Public Health Minister Steve Brine said.

But there was widespread agreement among the working group's on - the - ground experts — including Panjabi; Ngozi Okonjo - Iweala, the former Nigerian finance minister who now chairs Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance; Helle Thorning - Schmidt, CEO of Save the Children International; and Andrew Youn of the One Acre Fund — that only a more comprehensive health strategy would make any real dent in childhood mortality.

Finance Minister Carole James says only five per cent of businesses will be paying the full tax rate and those covering the existing health premiums for their employees will see savings as the fees are cut in half and then eliminated.

Still, Brazilian health minister Ricardo Barros said all 27 states in the country will be targeted in a vaccination campaign aiming to reach 78 million people by 2019, according to the Associated Press.

More than 30 people were injured in the town, according to Kurdish Health Minister Rekawt Hama Rasheed.

Earlier in the week, health and labour leaders wrote a letter urging Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to pull Morneau from the national pharmacare file over comments he made the morning after his budget announced the council's formation.

The advisory council is being led by former Ontario health minister Eric Hoskins, who resigned from his post in the provincial legislature the day before the federal budget.

«I'd been a health minister for five years, if you count provincial time plus federal time,» he says, leaning forward on an armless lounge chair in his office.

«I would not score very highly on religious value,» said Lee, then 82, still in good health, and a sort of Minister Emeritus.

A series of events, being co-hosted by the World Bank and WHO on 13 - 14 April, as part of the World Bank Group - International Monetary Fund Spring Meetings in Washington DC, is bringing ministers of finance, development agencies, academic experts and practitioners together to discuss how to put mental health at the centre of the health and development agenda globally and in countries.

«In addition, he was the Deputy Minister of Health at the time many of the actions that were the subject of the investigation happened.

«It is questionable, however, whether the public will share this view, particularly in light of Premier Christy Clark's and Minister of Health Terry Lake's public statements in October which suggested that the review would have a broad rather than a limited scope,» he wrote.

«Comments of the type that have been recently made that are designed to place blame on Mr. Whitmarsh for the events in 2012 must cease and desist,» it said, noting such comments had come from Clark, Lake, Dyble and current health deputy minister Stephen Brown.

When the British Columbia government launched a review last month to probe the controversial firings of seven health ministry staffers in 2012, Graham Whitmarsh, the former deputy health minister, worried that senior government officials had already decided to blame him.

Health Minister Sussan Ley's flight to the sin bin leaves premium rates covering 13.5 million health fund members and the $ 20 billion private health fund sector up in thHealth Minister Sussan Ley's flight to the sin bin leaves premium rates covering 13.5 million health fund members and the $ 20 billion private health fund sector up in thhealth fund members and the $ 20 billion private health fund sector up in thhealth fund sector up in the air.

On December 19, 2011, the federal Minister of Finance announced that the federal government had decided that, beginning in 2017 - 18 and through to 2023 - 24, the annual increase in the Canada Health Transfer (CHT) would be linked to a three - year moving average in nominal Gross Domestic Product (GDP).

«We are writing to set out Mr. Whitmarsh's concerns with respect to the manner in which the Public Service Agency's review is being conducted, as well as the damaging public comments that have been made about him recently by the Minister of Health Terry Lake, Premier Christy Clark and others in Government,» wrote Adams.

In August of 2007, for example, Health Minister Tony Clement referred to one of the RCMP studies when he told a pivotal meeting of the Canadian Medical Association, «There has been more research done, and some of it has been questioning of the research that has already taken place and questioning of the methodology of those associated with Insite.»

Eventually, MacDiarmid lost her Vancouver - Fairview seat in the 2013 election, and Whitmarsh was removed from his position as deputy health minister.

Private health insurer nib said it sees significant opportunity in the federal health minister's review as it lifted its profit forecasts.

In a late - summer cabinet shuffle, Trudeau moved Jane Philpott, who had earned solid reviews during her stint as health minister, into a newly created role as Indigenous services minister.

International U.K. health minister says breast - cancer - screening failure may have shortened 270 lives, Globe and Mail Protesters block roads across Armenia in stand - off with authorities, Reuters

At a federal - provincial finance ministers» meeting in December 2012, the Finance Minister announced that, starting in 2017 - 18, the rate of growth in the Canada Health Transfer (CHT) would be reduced from 6 per cent per year to grow in line with a three - year moving average in nominal GDP, with a funding guarantee to grow by at least three per cent per year.

David Dodge, a former Deputy Minister of Finance, Deputy Minister of Health, and Governor of the Bank of Canada, has recently released a study on the growing costs of health care in Canada in the coming decades and the impact they could have on all governments — federal and proviHealth, and Governor of the Bank of Canada, has recently released a study on the growing costs of health care in Canada in the coming decades and the impact they could have on all governments — federal and provihealth care in Canada in the coming decades and the impact they could have on all governments — federal and provincial.

In December, labour minister Yasir Naqvi announced changes to labour legislation that would bring unpaid workers under the Occupational Health and Safety Act and boost workplace inspections this spring.

Bank brings in former minister in the department of health as it works on significant tie - ups in the sector

Ms. Young replaces former Rural and Remote Health Minister Tim McMillan, who resigned in September to become the President of the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers.

VICTORIA — Health Minister Terry Lake needs to answer questions about what will be included — and who will be consulted — in the upcoming review of the Fraser Health Authority, say New Democrats.

Y ’ know, I'm reading Heather Scoffield's somewhat bone - chilling interview with David Dodge, who was a deputy minister of Health and Finance before becoming Bank of Canada chairman — the one where he calls a return to surpluses in 2013 «totally unrealistic.

Finance minister Doug Horner, former deputy premier Thomas Lukaszuk, Health minister Fred Horne, Service Alberta minister Doug Griffiths, former Energy minister Ken Hughes and anti-bullying minister Sandra Jansen all found themselves sitting in the backbenches.

Doctors confronted Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq in Hamilton yesterday.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's whirlwind visit to Canada last week — the first bilateral visit by an Indian prime minister in 42 years — saw the completion of several memoranda of understanding in a range of areas, including civil aviation, rail regulation, space co-operation, education andMinister Narendra Modi's whirlwind visit to Canada last week — the first bilateral visit by an Indian prime minister in 42 years — saw the completion of several memoranda of understanding in a range of areas, including civil aviation, rail regulation, space co-operation, education andminister in 42 years — saw the completion of several memoranda of understanding in a range of areas, including civil aviation, rail regulation, space co-operation, education and health.

In Edmonton - Rutherford, Tory Health Minister Fred Horne «s $ 108,327.30 campaign easily outspent a wide field of challengers.

In the 2018 federal budget, the government announced the creation of an Advisory Council on the Implementation of National Pharmacare, which will be headed up by former Ontario health minister Dr. Eric Hoskins.