Sentences with phrase «health minister»

On the Today programme, the former health minister explained his stance.

She's been a shadow health minister for nearly a year and a half!

It is rare to hear a federal minister talk about addressing prison rates, let alone a federal health minister.

The events themselves may have occurred in the 80s, but the scandal came when the former junior health minister revealed her affair with the prime minister in 2002.

And you'd find the same point of view if health ministers were being more vocal here about the dangers of this.

She made the claim in 2005 before becoming health minister and there is no suggestion that the claim is in breach of the expenses rules.

The previous health minister has been public in his response to me.

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!

The Welsh Conservatives» Shadow Health Minister says the fall in blood collection by the Welsh Blood Service is another example of problems caused by underfunding of the NHS.

However, women comprise only 17 % of the Government's new Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) Review Taskforce, announced yesterday by Health Minister Sussan Ley.

(Croakey has asked the office of Health Minister Sussan Ley for details on when an appointment is likely and will update this post when we hear back.)

A highlight was having Federal Parliament's two leading Indigenous representatives, Liberal Assistant Health Minister Ken Wyatt and Labor Senator Nova Peris, in conversation.

Six weeks earlier, Al - Rabeeah had already been replaced as health minister by Adel Fakieh.

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

NATSIHWA says it was heartened by the Budget media statement from Indigenous Health Minister Ken Wyatt and welcomed funding for the Indigenous Australians» Health Program, to reduce and prevent rheumatic heart fever, and the strong representation of Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisations (ACCHOs) in rolling out Health Care Homes.

Department Of Health Minister of state - Dawn Primarolo Minister of state - Ben Bradshaw (and minister for the south west) Minister of state - Phil Hope (and minister for the east Midlands) Parliamentary under secretary of state - Lord Darzi of Denham Parliamentary under secretary of state - Ann Keen

The former shadow health minister said she had been loyal to the Labour leader but that she was dropped in last week's reshuffle because she spoke on her own terms.

Federal Indigenous Health Minister Ken Wyatt has stressed the critical importance of listening to and working with communities to develop local solutions to improve the health and well - being... Read more

Former Liberal Democrat health minister Norman Lamb dismissed the pledge as «meaningless rhetoric» and raised questions over the funding of the plan.

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

Mental health is again stated as being at the forefront of the Government's priorities with the new Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt announcing his commitment to frontline services.

«We support the crucial work of state and territory health ministers from across the nation in their efforts to reduce obesity and chronic diseases.

Shadow health minister Lord Hunt could be facing the sack from Jeremy Corbyn's frontbench after voting for a second Brexit referendum.

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.

He told delegates he was not going to slay them with data from the project, as all its details had been published in full in June under open access at the Medical Journal of Australia, and launched by Assistant Health Minister Fiona Nash.

The concern about the neglect of the English issue was echoed by Jamie Reed, the shadow health minister who wrote in Progress magazine: «It is in the peripheral areas outside of our major conurbations all over England where the next Labour government must concentrate its efforts.»

The pilot programme, announced by the UK public health minister Jane Ellison, will offer the shot to 40,000 men who have sex with men.

The government needs a mental health minister at Cabinet level, an influential economist will argue later.

«Health is across all three areas», Mundine said, but admitted he had yet to meet with Health Minister Peter Dutton and was not clear on the status of the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health plan, launched by the Labor Government shortly before it lost office.

At the foundation's launch, Bernard Kouchner, the French health minister at the time, said that the Paris centre would be opened within the year.

New Health Minister Greg Hunt has immediately come under pressure from the doctors» lobby to lift the amount they receive from the governme...

Today Public health minister Anne Milton launches the Start4Life campaign, which aims to help mothers - to - be have healthier pregnancies

Tory Public Health Minister Nicola Blackwood last night insisted the Government's programme — including the Sugar Tax — was the «most ambitious in the world».

Strong reactions to the Federal Government's Budget announcement of a $ 7 GP co-payment are still making headlines, and while The Guardian reported on Health Minister Peter Dutton's confidence of being able to get the policy through the Senate, PUP Senator Clive Palmer suggested he might be engaging in «wishful thinking».

Shadow health minister Liz Kendall was the first Labour MP to say they wanted a crack at the party's top job, saying a «fundamentally new approach» was needed.

It admits improvements are being made, noting that the first nine months of 2007 saw an increase from 47 per cent to 50 per cent, but describes the ten per cent «buffer zone» announced by health minister Ben Bradshaw as simply a means of lowering the target for this December.

Shadow mental health minister Luciana Berger added he was «one of Labour's best campaigners who's worked hard to widen access to the arts and sport.»

Questions loom about the Alberta Health Services $ 100 - million surplus in the midst of nurse layoffs and whether Health Minister Fred Horne approved the agency's controversial bonuses for its senior executives before he fired the entire board of directors.

VICTORIA — New Democrat health spokesperson Judy Darcy is urging Health Minister Terry Lake to make sure that public health care is protected by investigating private medical clinics and compliance with the Medicare Protection Act.

While Leona Aglukkaq writes to the provincial health ministers about OxyContin and prescription drug abuse, John Geddes questions the Harper government's approach.

EDMONTON — New Democrat candidate for Edmonton Whitemud, Dr. Bob Turner, called on Health minister Stephen Mandel to commit to a full...

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The figures, obtained by Mr Pritchard in a written ministerial answer from public health minister Dawn Primarolo, show 54 women terminated their eighth or more pregnancy in 2006.

Income tax should be increased by 1p to deliver a # 4.6 bn boost to the struggling NHS while a long - term funding solution is found, the former Liberal Democrat health minister Norman Lamb has said.

The Ontario Hospital Association has stated it wants hospitals to know about all complaints against doctors and nurses, [6] Ontario Health Minister Eric Hoskins pushed for better disclosure regarding public health inspections and outbreaks, [7] and the backlash to the QCIPA's effects was palpable.

There was much relief and rejoicing in March when Health Minister Sussan Ley and Assistant Minister Fiona Nash announced that funding for 112 Aboriginal and Community Controlled Health Organisations (ACCHOs) had been secured for the next three years.

Mental health groups have also been granted a last - minute funding reprieve from the federal government after Health Minister Sussan Ley announced a continuation of nearly $ 300 million in funding about to expire.

But last night a former Labour health minister accused his party leadership of scaremongering and risking patient care.

The controversial issue of hospital funding will be up for discussion again today as state health ministers meet at the COAG Health Council.