Sentences with phrase «health secretary»

He says that people are right to be worried about health and then he starts to quote from something the shadow health secretary said yesterday.

The former health secretary also said the government should invest in a better screening tests.

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

But the former health secretary said the revelations were «at the heart» of why he wanted to stand.

The government's position is a real mess because we have a prime minister at war with his own health secretary about what to do, when what's needed is proper leadership.

Sources close to the shadow health secretary describe a man who has passed beyond frustration with his leader.

But the shadow health secretary dismissed the idea of assuming the top position last night, when asked by journalists.

The former health secretary says we should use the economic downturn as an opportunity to extend the work - life balance agenda.

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.

This was followed by Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt saying the NHS and social care system will need «a greater share» of government spending in the future.

Shadow health secretary Andrew Lansley said: «These worrying figures are a sad indictment of our broken society and demonstrate Labour's complete failure to tackle binge drinking.

The first to be eliminated was Ed Balls, perhaps surprisingly followed by Shadow Health Secretary Andy Burnham, Diane Abbott was eliminated next and then David Miliband.

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.

NOAH has welcomed the statement by Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt and Business Secretary Greg Clark that the UK is fully committed to continuing a close working relationship with the EU, in particular the European Medicines Agency (EMA), post-Brexit.

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.

Labour MP Heidi Alexander, who quit as Shadow Health Secretary in June, writes in an opinion piece:

Critics point out that Mr Clegg originally endorsed the proposals, signing the foreword of health secretary Andrew Lansley's white paper which outlined the government's plans.

Nia Griffith MP offers a suggestion for Health Secretary Alan Johnson to include in official guidance on preventing the spread of Swine Flu during a statement made in the House of Commons on Swine Flu.

The former shadow environment secretary's article for Huffington Post comes days after former shadow health secretary Heidi Alexander criticised Corbyn's «inept, unprofessional and shoddy» tenure.

The announcement came from Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt during a media frenzy regarding the cost of tourists using the NHS, and overall aim is for the NHS to not have to chase costs of treatments for foreign service users.

New health secretary Andrew Lansley has said NHS spending will continue to rise in real terms - but that efficiency savings will still be required.

As shadow health secretary John Healey observed: «This is not what people expected when David Cameron promised to protect the NHS.»

Alexander, the former shadow health secretary who quit Corbyn's frontbench during the string of resignations over his leadership in 2016, has resigned her seat to take up a role as deputy mayor for transport under the mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, at City Hall.

Prof Hawking was also a vocal champion of the NHS and, until his final months, sparred with Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt.

The shadow health secretary told Good Morning Britain: «I've repeatedly warned that if you cut social care, if you take away support from older people in their homes; in the end that falls back on the NHS because people go into hospital and they become trapped there.

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.

Michael Atiyah, president of the Royal Society, last week accused health secretary Virginia Bottomley of ignoring scientific advice on the issue.

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

Other Labour party moderates who will speak at the four - day festival are Shadow Health Secretary Jon Ashworth and Lisa Nandy, who ran Owen Smith's campaign when he challenged Corbyn for the leadership.

Former Labour Health Secretary Andy Burnham is the hot favourite, pledging to tackle inequality, invest in early years education and ease congestion as mayor.

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

Speakers included Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt, Health Minister Philip Dunne plus Co founders of the APPG Antoinette Sandbach MP and Will Quince MP.

But the shadow health secretary also warns the prime minister that he must also deliver a «tough but fair» package on immigration in his renegotiations before the referendum if he is to stand any chance of keeping the UK in the European Union.

Former Shadow Health Secretary Ms Alexander stood down as an MP on Tuesday to become Mr Khan's deputy mayor for Transport.

However, when health secretary Patricia Hewitt attempted to defend the government's reforms at an RCN conference earlier this month, saying the NHS had had its «best year ever», she was slow hand - clapped and booed.

Former Conservative health secretary Andrew Lansley has revealed he has bowel cancer, and has called on the government to improve the NHS's current screening programme for the disease.

«Tax breaks for childcare is a bad idea Main Jeremy Hunt should become Health Secretary as soon as possible»

Moving Theresa May, left, could provide a vacancy for Mr Johnson at the Home Office, while Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt, right, could also be moved.

«We have a particular problem with alcohol misuse in the UK and it's costing us dear,» Scottish health secretary Nicola Sturgeon told the Today programme.

The new rule comes amid mounting concerns over the future of reproductive health and rights, with extremists like Vice President - elect Mike Pence and and anticipated Health Secretary nominee Tom Price joining the Trump administration.

Andy Burnham has asked Health Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, to substantiate his claims that the Labour MP hid hospital failings in a «cover up».

ATLANTA — A Georgia state lawmaker — the wife of former Trump health secretary Tom Price — is drawing condemnation for suggesting that people with HIV might be quarantined to curb the spread of the infectious disease.

Former Conservative health secretary Stephen Dorrell, now the chair of the Commons» health select committee, acknowledged on the Today programme that Mr Cameron's decision to intervene was not completely rooted in policy.

Barclay said that Burnham, who was Health Secretary at the time, was «putting pressure on the regulator to water down its concerns».

This week, former UK health secretary Andrew Lansley revealed that he has bowel cancer and called for improvements to the NHS's screening programme for 55 - year - olds.

«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.

The debate on seven day working was reignited following health secretary Jeremy Hunt's recent call for hospital doctors to work at weekends to improve quality of care and reduce deaths.

Andrew Lansley will become the first health secretary for eight years not to speak at the RCN conference this week, as he seeks to avoid the fate that befell Patricia Hewitt several years ago, when she was booed and heckled by the audience.

Heidi Alexander, who quit as shadow health secretary last weekend, has criticised John McDonnell's «totally unacceptable» conduct in setting up a team of NHS policy advisers without telling her.

Hunt was appointed Health Secretary in a cabinet reshuffle on 4 September 2012, succeeding Andrew Lansley.