Sentences with phrase «former public health minister»

The former public health minister and boisterous 2010 intake MP made headlines in Total Politics complaining that the PM had given her a «soft bloody girly option» in appointing her in a role that has only ever been filled by women.

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HQCA advisory committee The appointment of former Liberal Deputy Prime Minister Anne McLellan and retired Judge Allan Wachowich to an advisory panel to the Health Quality Council of Alberta may weaken opposition calls for a full Public Inquiry into the intimidation of health care professiHealth Quality Council of Alberta may weaken opposition calls for a full Public Inquiry into the intimidation of health care professihealth care professionals.

Speakers include Dr. Suraiya Dalil, Minister of Public Health, Afghanistan; Sir Sherard Cowper - Coles, former British Ambassador to Afghanistan and Frances Guy, the UN Women Representative for Iraq.

Norman Lamb, the former Health Minister who set up the Lib Dems» expert panel, said ORB's findings about licensed cannabis sales showed that the public were way ahead of most politicians who, he claimed, doggedly support prohibition despite its disastrous consequences.

It is fitting that shortly after losing my friend and former boss Tessa Jowell to brain cancer I'm able to pay tribute to her trailblazing work in this area as the first minister for public health.

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!

Former Health Minister Lord Warner, said that «I think it is important that public service broadcasters such as the BBC provide a proper opportunity for the alternative to the faith - based viewpoint to be heard regularly.

The former deputy prime minister also said senior Conservatives, such as David Cameron and George Osborne, have failed to act on drug reform because they saw the issue as a «naughty recreational secret» at Notting Hill dinner parties instead of a public health crisis.

Former Minister of Education, Oby Ezekweisili, has faulted the Presidency over the handling of information issued to the public on the health status of President Muhammadu Buhari.

Public Health Minister Aileen Campbell was joined by former footballer John Hughes, Scotland Rugby 7s captain Scott Riddell and founder of Gold and Gray Soccer Academy Ross Gray at Castleview Primary School in Edinburgh to relaunch the website.

Former minister of public safety, health and justice in the Liberal governments of Jean Chrétien and Paul Martin and also a former law professor at the University of Alberta, Anne McLellan most recently was appointed chairwoman of the Task Force on the Legalization and Regulation of Cannabis, the panel that submitted recommendations to the federal government on the design of a new system to legalize, strictly regulate and restrict access to canFormer minister of public safety, health and justice in the Liberal governments of Jean Chrétien and Paul Martin and also a former law professor at the University of Alberta, Anne McLellan most recently was appointed chairwoman of the Task Force on the Legalization and Regulation of Cannabis, the panel that submitted recommendations to the federal government on the design of a new system to legalize, strictly regulate and restrict access to canformer law professor at the University of Alberta, Anne McLellan most recently was appointed chairwoman of the Task Force on the Legalization and Regulation of Cannabis, the panel that submitted recommendations to the federal government on the design of a new system to legalize, strictly regulate and restrict access to cannabis.

But it sets a tone and direction for future reform that will deeply worry many people working in public health, the community sector, and Indigenous affairs — no real surprise given the members of the Commission are mostly drawn from business — headed by former Business Council of Australia president Tony Shepherd and including former Howard Government Minister Amanda Vanstone.

Plenty of Mr Barnes» advice mirrors that given by former Health Minister, and Labor Party MP, Nicola Roxon in a recent interview for the Sax Institute's journal Public Health Research & Practice.