Sentences with phrase «labour health secretary»

We wonder if a Labour health secretary will be saying in May 2015 «The NHS ideal, within a mixed economy of healthcare providers.»

Smith, a self - styled ideological follower of Nye Bevan, the postwar Labour health secretary and founder of the NHS, admits to fears about what may come.

This morning, the Times («Hewitt «cashes in» on Bupa job» — #) revealed that Patricia Hewitt, former Labour health secretary and sometime Bennite, has taken a job with Bupa — # 52,000 a year to attend ten board meetings.

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James Mildred was speaking after Labour's newly appointed shadow health secretary Heidi Alexander said in an interview with the Mirror that she supports...

Today, the Labour Party's Shadow Health Secretary, Jonathan Ashworth, will announce a new commitment that a future Labour government would place hospital food standards on the same legal basis as school food standards.

Sustain has welcomed commitments from shadow Health Secretary Jon Ashworth that a future Labour Government would introduce legal standards for hospital food, extend the sugary drinks tax and ban junk food advertising during family TV, for the benefit of the nation's hHealth Secretary Jon Ashworth that a future Labour Government would introduce legal standards for hospital food, extend the sugary drinks tax and ban junk food advertising during family TV, for the benefit of the nation's healthhealth.

Writing for politics.co.uk today, the Fabian Society's general secretary Andrew Harrop argued that Labour's public health efforts were «a heroic effort at running up a down escalator».

Andrew Lansley, shadow health secretary, said: «If we are to avoid stigmatising children after being weighed then there needs to be sympathetic follow - up care but Labour have failed to address the chronic shortage of school nurses.»

The shadow health secretary Andrew Lansley said: «Doctors at the heart of our services are not only suffering poor morale but have now lost confidence in Patricia Hewitt and Labour's stewardship of the NHS.»

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 Blairite former health secretary caused a sensation this January when she and Geoff Hoon attempted to bring down Gordon Brown by urging Labour MPs to vote in a secret leadership ballot.

Labour leader Ed Miliband highlighted the issue in his response to the Queen's Speech when he pointed out former health secretary Andrew Lansley had said he thought children ought to be «protected from the start» from «glitzy designs on packets».

Miliband's announcements represent a victory in the shadow Cabinet for shadow health secretary Andy Burnham, who had been calling for Labour to integrate health and social care.

Under - used by Labour during the campaign, the Shadow Health Secretary has proved to be a competent critic of Jeremy Hunt and was strong on the Tories» social care funding muddle.

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.

Labour's Jonathan Ashworth, the shadow health secretary, highlighted news this week that the Royal Marsden foundation trust predicted it would receive an income of # 210m over two years from providing private healthcare.

Later, Cameron caught shadow health secretary Andy Burnham rejecting the PM's claim that Labour want to cut the NHS.

That was a reference to the then health secretary Patricia Hewitt who had repeatedly called Scotland's Labour first minister between 2001 and 2007 Jack McDonnell instead of Jack McConnell.

The shadow health secretary, Heidi Alexander, had to stage a physical sit - in outside Corbyn's office in order to get a decision from him on Labour party policy on the NHS.

He is followed by the Health Secretary Alan Johnson (18.1 per cent); the backbencher Jon Cruddas (11.3 per cent); the Justice Secretary Jack Straw (9.6 per cent); Labour's deputy leader Harriet Harman (6.6 per cent); the left - winger John McDonnell (6.5 per cent); the Work and Pensions Secretary James Purnell (3.2 per cent); and the Schools Secretary Ed Balls (2 per cent).

He had already blocked Brown's membership of Labour's ruling National Executive and brought in his own man, former health secretary, Alan Milburn, to run the 2005 election campaign, in place of Brown.

Jonathan Ashworth MP, Labour's Shadow Health Secretary, has pledged to introduce an additional mandated health visit at 3 - 4 months, as part of Labour's commitment to making Britain's children the healthiest... ReaHealth Secretary, has pledged to introduce an additional mandated health visit at 3 - 4 months, as part of Labour's commitment to making Britain's children the healthiest... Reahealth visit at 3 - 4 months, as part of Labour's commitment to making Britain's children the healthiest... Read more

Shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth, who played a frontline role for Labour in the election campaign, said the Tories were in an «utter mess».

However the shadow health secretary, Andy Burnham, accused the media of whipping up a narrative that unfairly declared «everything a disaster for Labour».

John Healey is the shadow secretary of state for health and the Labour MP for Wentworth and Dearne — next time Jim Murphy takes the hot seat

Shadow health secretary Andy Burnham has told the BBC that the Labour Party is united behind its leader Ed Miliband.

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.

Ministry of Health is expected to release N1bn, N735.04 m from the office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation and N1.09 billion from Ministry of Labour and Employment.

The shadow health secretary has big plans to join social care up with health - but this could make Labour some enemies

Labour frontbenchers have dismissed the idea of a new party emerging, with the shadow chancellor, John McDonnell, claiming it was «a party for the few, not the many», and the shadow health secretary, Jon Ashworth, calling it «a daft waste of time».

Tomorrow, Labour will show the leadership the health service needs by hauling the Secretary of State from his self - imposed exile to face the House of Commons.

Labour peer Clive Hollick has also donated # 10,000 to Kendall to help her leadership bid, while former health secretary Patricia Hewitt has handed over # 4,000.

Health secretary Patricia Hewitt also welcomed the comments made by both Mr Blair and Mr Brown, saying it was time for Labour MPs to put behind them the «damaging divisions of the last week» and get on with governing.

Shadow health secretary Andrew Lansley claimed the average length of hospital stays fell in the early 1990s quicker than at any time under the present Labour government.

Jeremy Hunt, the health secretary, and Andy Burnham, his Labour shadow, squabbled all week as A&E targets are missed.

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.

As Health Secretary Alan Johnson is, of course, responsible (a) for the NHS, through which New Labour induced public / private arrangements run like a bad bout of MRSA and (b) for declaring hypocritically that cancer patients could not combine NHS and privately funded treatments.

That twinkle, it turned out, was a Labour briefing document reminding MPs that Andy Burnham — once health secretary, now shadow heath secretary — had kept a risk report on the NHS secret himself not so long ago.

Corbyn loyalist and new Shadow Health Secretary Diane Abbott attacked the «circus» of Labour MPs staging a mutiny.

The Shadow Health Secretary, a close ally of the Labour leader, also argued party members would look unfavourably at Owen Smith's previous employment at pharmaceutical giant Pfizer in the upcoming leadership contest.

The Shadow Health Secretary said it would be «easy to guess» the kind of exchanges going on between members of Labour's ruling National Executive Committee.

The shadow health secretary joins a number of Labour MPs who are critical of Mandelson's decision to publish his memoirs while the leadership election is under way.

«The Labour party is the biggest it has ever been, with more than 450,000 members,» the Shadow Health Secretary wrote in a piece for the Guardian.

On 27 June 2016, after the resignations of many of Labour's ministerial team including Heidi Alexander in the aftermath of Brexit, Abbott was promoted to the position of Shadow Health Secretary.

Shadow Health Secretary Heidi Alexander was the first to resign, telling Jeremy Corbyn «a change of leadership is essential» if Labour is to win the next election.

Jonathan Ashworth MP, Labour's Shadow Health Secretary, has pledged to introduce an additional mandated health visit at 3 - 4 months, as part of Labour's commitment to making Britain's children the healthiest in the Health Secretary, has pledged to introduce an additional mandated health visit at 3 - 4 months, as part of Labour's commitment to making Britain's children the healthiest in the health visit at 3 - 4 months, as part of Labour's commitment to making Britain's children the healthiest in the world.

But due to various historical accidents, lost parliamentary seats and early retirements, the current parliamentary Labour Party lacks figures of this statute — with the possible exception of Harriet Harman, a former deputy party leader, and Alan Johnson, who has held previous roles as home secretary and security of state for health and education to his name.

Last week we had the crazy position of Shadow Health Secretary Andrew Lansley ATTACKING Labour for forcing the NHS to make efficiency savings and not immediately spending those savings.

Former Shadow Health Secretary Heidi Alexander, of the pro-EU campaign group Open Britain, said: «Without this, it is genuinely not clear how Labour members, supporters and the public are meant to contribute to the party's policymaking on the biggest issue we face as a country.

Burnham, a former health secretary under Gordon Brown, got several standing ovations at the Labour conference on Wednesday as he promised that the party would give people the right to be treated in their own home and make the NHS responsible for social care as well as medical problems.