Sentences with phrase «health spokesman»

A Department of Health spokesman said: «The principles of our modernisation plans - patient power, clinical leadership, a focus on results - have been widely supported, as reported by the independent NHS Future Forum.

Lib Dem health spokesman Norman Lamb argued more needed to be done to establish why children are drinking so much and why this varies around the country.

A Department of Health spokesman said: «Drugs ruin lives and cause misery to families and communities and this Government is committed to breaking the cycle of drug and alcohol dependency.

Lib Dem health spokesman Norman Lamb said: «Some of these initiatives smack of gimmickry.

Launching the campaign, the Conservatives» assembly health spokesman Jonathan Morgan said that, instead of cuts, the Tories would engage in a «proper dialogue» with local clinicians and people on local services.

He continued in this position until being appointed as Liberal Democrat Health spokesman in 2005.

Party health spokesman Norman Lamb will tell conference there is a strong case for the move despite political risk

Lib Dem health spokesman John Pugh argued, however, the relationship between the pharmaceutical industry and the government «has been far too cosy for too long»

The government's introduction of the 24 - hour licensing rules last year has met with many critics and Tory health spokesman Andrew Lansley insists legislation is not the way forward.

Lord McColl of Dulwich, a junior health spokesman for the party, is also chair of the advisory committee of Endeavour Health, a paid - for rival to NGS GP services.

Norman Lamb, the former health minister who was defeated by Farron in the leadership contest, reverts to his role before the 2010 election as health spokesman.

Thanks Senator Sue Lines, Victorian Health Minister Jill Hennessy, federal opposition health spokesman Stephen Jones, Senator Penny Wright, Queensland Health Minister Cameron Dick, and others.

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Plaid's health spokesman Helen Mary Jones launched a mini-manifesto to save the health services while campaigning in Llanelli.

Here's state Department of Health spokesman Gary Holmes.

The response in Newburgh was crafted in consultation with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and will serve as a national model for understanding PFOS exposure, state Department of Health spokesman James Plastiras said.

The Hackney North and Stoke Newington MP was shadow public health spokesman under Ed Miliband, after losing out to him in the 2010 Labour leadership contest.

ALBANY — Nearly three months into the launch of the state's medical marijuana program, the Cuomo administration estimates that roughly half of the patients deemed eligible have received the drug, a Department of Health spokesman told POLITICO New York.

But Conservative health spokesman Andrew Lansley said it was an «outrage», warning that the government must take urgent action to stop trusts spending more than they earn.

«Hospitals need to know exactly when the system will be delivered so that the transition will not affect patient care,» said health spokesman Steve Webb.

«Crystal Run Health Care was awarded Capital Restructuring and Financing Program funding through an open and competitive procurement process aimed at expanding primary care services to reduce avoidable hospital and emergency room visits, improve population health, and transform New York's healthcare system,» Department of Health spokesman Ben Rosen said in a statement.

Health spokesman Devin Galetta has said the agency «fully expects Judge Gievers» ruling to be reversed on appeal.»

«Inevitably there are compromises,» the former health spokesman says.

But Labour health spokesman Andy Burnham said Mr Cameron was making the same promise he did five years ago.

Ukip health spokesman Louise Bours said: «If the Tories were serious about the NHS they would have brought these changes in over the last five years they have been in government, but instead they have degenerated the NHS beyond all recognition.»

Those contracts will cost upwards of $ 1.3 million, said health spokesman Tom Hudachko.

Fresh on the election hustings, Labor's Rural and Regional Health spokesman Stephen Jones, the local MP, dropped in to the Wollongong campus (see his interview with Summer May Finlay), and a number of MPs and Senators, including Greens Leader Richard Di Natale, signalled that they were following the discussion.

Labor Indigenous Health spokesman Warren Snowdon talks about what Labor is hoping to achieve from the national health policy summit and the particular issues for people in remote and regional Australia and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health.

«It is incredibly frustrating that the national flu strategy is inevitably being undermined because this central plank is not in place,» said Liberal Democrat health spokesman Norman Lamb.

Click here for the full audio file of interviews with Labour MPs Laura Moffatt and Mike Gates, and Lib Dem health spokesman Norman Lamb.

«This incident highlights the risk to data security within the modern health service and reinforces the need for cyber security to be at the heart of government planning,» Labour's health spokesman Jonathan Ashworth said.

A Department of Health spokesman in London said: «There are no plans to increase the legal age for buying alcohol.»

The Liberal Democrat health spokesman Norman Lamb said: «The prime minister is living in cloud cuckoo land if he thinks that more central targets will be met by hospitals deep in deficit who are already cutting jobs and services.

But Stuart Jeffery, Green party health spokesman, described the proposal as «shocking» and «inherently discriminatory».

Liberal Democrat health spokesman John Pugh said the Paddington scheme was a «perfect example of what goes wrong with an NHS management structure where central and local bodies fail to communicate effectively», and said it was patients who suffered.

Lansley's been the Party's health spokesman for the best part of a decade.

As Health spokesman, he regularly sought advice and discussion about health policy.

A Department of Health spokesman said it was «committed to the principle of ensuring that NHS patients have access to the spiritual care that they want, whatever faith or belief system they follow».

A Department of Health spokesman said: «The OFT concluded that the pricing system should have a more value - based approach in order to deliver greater benefit to patients.

Thirty - two people were injured including two police officers, according to Dr. Adel Al Dawi, a ministry of health spokesman.

A Department of Health spokesman is quoted in the Guardian used the story to attack the EU regulations:

Health spokesman Jonathan Morgan said: «With spending going through the roof people around Wales will rightly ask how they have been able to spend taxpayers» money without demonstrating the improvements they promised.

Norman Lamb, Lib Dem health spokesman, tells politics.co.uk the NHS must be more responsive to its patients, with an emphasis on promoting wellness rather than curing sickness.

Norman Lamb - Whip and Chief Parliamentary and Political Adviser to the Deputy Prime Minister (was Health spokesman)

Norman Lamb, the Norfolk MP who is the party's health spokesman, and who argued strongly for a 1p increase in income tax to boost funding for the NHS and social care during the election campaign, is another likely contender.

Meanwhile John Healey, the party's health spokesman, has become a thoughtful critic of European competition policy.»

His first job on the Liberal Democrat team was briefly as the party's health spokesman in 1997, and he then spent two years as spokesman on employment and training before moving to defence.

Simon Hughes, the health spokesman who has a huge powerbase in the party in London, wastes little opportunity in criticising Lib Lab co-operation, while Charles Kennedy, the party's former president, makes no secret of his disapporval.