Sentences with phrase «as health secretary»

He has been in parliament since 2001 and has worked as health secretary; culture, media and sport secretary; and chief secretary to the treasury.

Shadow Health Secretary Andy Burnham has denied trying to prevent a hospital failings scandal becoming public knowledge when he was serving as health secretary in 2009.

He took his third cabinet post as health secretary in 2009, having served previously as chief secretary to the Treasury and culture secretary.

The winner will succeed Republican Tom Price, who resigned to joint Trump's Cabinet as health secretary.

It was one of the last big Cabinet jobs to be announced but the Prime Minister has chosen to stick with Jeremy Hunt as Health Secretary.

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.

Jeremy Hunt has taken over from Andrew Lansley as health secretary, in a move which stunned Westminster insiders.

After five turbulent and exhausting years as Health Secretary, surely it's time for him to be substituted.

The only two top ministers confirmed to have remained in place are Jeremy Hunt and Michael Fallon, who keep their jobs as Health Secretary and Defence Secretary respectively.

Energy Secretary Rick Perry is the latest member of Trump's Cabinet who has been caught flying on a private charter plane at taxpayer expense, reportedly taking a flight to Ohio, only a day before Tom Price resigned as health secretary for doing the same.

Meanwhile, Jeremy Hunt's appointment as health secretary was attacked for his support for homeopathic medicine, his questionable record on the NHS and his support for a radical reduction in the time limit for abortions.

The dictionary defines crisis as «a time of intense difficulty or danger» which perhaps applies more to Andrew Lansley's tenure as health secretary than to the service he oversees.

His days as Health Secretary must surely be numbered after he was sidelined by the PM and Home Secretary after the NHS cyber attack during the election campaign.

[21][22] A wider public inquiry, again led by Robert Francis, was launched in 2010 by his successor as Health Secretary, Andrew Lansley.

With Andrew Lansley having being sacked as health secretary in mid-term and Michael Gove just shunted out of education, sacking Duncan Smith would have reflected too badly on this government's public service reform agenda.

He served as health secretary under Gordon Brown and previously as culture secretary and chief secretary to the Treasury.

A recent Freedom of Information request submitted to the Department of Health shows that Jeremy Hunt had spent six months as Health Secretary before visiting his first A&E unit.

I would put Mrs Whale in charge of finance, Peter Stringfellow as Foreign Secretary, Chris Moyles as Education Secretary, Elton John in charge of the arts and George Michael as Health Secretary.

The senior roles remain largely unchanged: George Osborne remains as chancellor, Theresa May remains as home secretary, Philip Hammond remains as foreign secretary, Jeremy Hunt remains as health secretary, Nicky Morgan remains as education secretrary, and Iain Duncan Smith remains as work and pensions secretary.

Of the nearly three quarters of doctors polled who questioned his ability as Health Secretary, almost half believe Hunt does not properly understand the needs of the NHS.

Burnham, who was forced on to the defensive earlier this year over his actions as health secretary relating to the Mid-Staffordshire scandal, is viewed as the most at - risk figure from the final year of the New Labour government.

Thousands of medics were left without training placements last year after a series of errors in the new recruitment process, prompting junior doctors to take to the streets demanding Patricia Hewitt's resignation as health secretary.

Most intriguingly, Jeremy Hunt also remained in place as health secretary and Greg Clarke kept his job as business secretary - despite plans to shift both men.

Hunt has once again escaped the chop, surviving as health secretary despite clashing bitterly with striking doctors.

Asked to confirm that Andrew Lansley was safe as Health Secretary, Mr Cameron said yes, describing Mr Lansley as «magnificent».

Alan Milburn, one of Blair's allies, regularly briefed against by Brown's henchmen during his time as Health Secretary, was more than willing to get his revenge during Smeargate.

Now, with both of them in the White House (and with anti-abortion extremist Tom Price close to joining the administration as Health Secretary), it's time to watch out and fight back.

As the health Secretary Alan Johnson said:» It is actually getting harder for people... to leave the income group, professional body or social circle of their parents».

He has served as health secretary and chief secretary to the Treasury, and has told his constituents, who he has represented since 1992, he is standing down to find «the right balance between my work life and my family life».

Other appointments include Ken Clarke as Lord Chancellor and Justice Secretary, Liam Fox as Defence Secretary and Andrew Lansley as Health Secretary.

Her two years as health secretary were turbulent and she survived a no - confidence vote in the Commons that was brought because of criticism of the applications system introduced to reduce the time taken by junior doctors to train as consultants not long before she quit.

But Jeremy Hunt, whose catastrophic handling of the junior doctors» strike enraged tens of thousands of NHS staff, grinned, waved and trolled critics on Twitter as he kept his job as Health Secretary.

Despite this, pressure continued to mount on her to resign as Health Secretary.

It seemed a miracle that Hunt had survived, but somehow he remains in the Cabinet as health secretary.

David Cameron appointed Jeremy Hunt as Health Secretary - after the BSkyB debacle - with a view to installing an accomplished communicator in an attempt to salvage some political capital from the wreckage of Andrew Lansley's Health & Social Care Act.

As health secretary, the 61 - year - old helped launch the «bowelscope» screening programme for people over 54, but governments cuts, a lack of endoscopists and problems with IT systems have hampered the system's delivery, currently only available to around half of the population, Lansley told the Daily Telegraph.

As a speechwriter, I've worked with people at all levels of the NHS over the years: including Alan Johnson as Health Secretary, NHS managers, doctor's trade unions and, more recently, some of the healthcare charities.

As the health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, led a cabinet fightback on behalf of Feldman, who denies having described activists as «mad, swivel - eyed loons», a member of the Tory party board said he would be asking Feldman to explain himself.

As the Health Secretary, Andy Burnham, quite reasonably pointed out:

Mr Cameron is said to owe Mr Lansley, his old boss at the Conservative Research Department, after he fired him as Health Secretary.

As Health Secretary, Reid had been in favour of limiting the government's proposed smoking ban as much as possible.

You had two courageous options: to insist that Andrew Lansley had done a great job in pushing through vital reforms and keep him as Health Secretary; or admit that the reform bill was botched and appoint a new health secretary whose job was to put things right.

He remains one of Trump's «go to guys» in Congress and is expected to maintain a high profile throughout the weekend, despite a recent controversy over stock trades he made in tandem with Rep. Tom Price, the Georgia Republican Trump nominated to serve as health secretary.