Sentences with phrase «when health secretary»

How can the public trust Cameron on the NHS when his health secretary is hand in glove with a big beneficiary of Tory health policy?

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.

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«We can get a hint of what communitarianism in action looks like from a speech that President Clinton's Secretary of Health and Human Services, Donna Shalala, delivered in 1991 when she was chancellor of the University of Wisconsin.

Such was the case when a dozen fourth and fifth graders posed a few hard - hitting questions to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, Education Secretary Arne Duncan and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, who are all now part of President Barack Obama's new federal task force to combat childhood obesity.

The Blairite former health secretary caused a sensation this January when she and Geoff Hoon attempted to bring down Gordon Brown by urging Labour MPs to vote in a secret leadership ballot.

Labour leader Ed Miliband highlighted the issue in his response to the Queen's Speech when he pointed out former health secretary Andrew Lansley had said he thought children ought to be «protected from the start» from «glitzy designs on packets».

The justice secretary is also understood to have demanded that condoms be removed from prisons and was only stopped when officials stepped in to advise him on the devastating public health implications of the move.

The shadow health secretary then made it clear that she was proud of the soundbite when she tweeted it out moments later.

He was a member of the Health Select Committee from 2001 until 2003, then serving as Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS) to Home Secretary David Blunkett until 2004, when he became PPS to Education Secretary Ruth Kelly.

Burnham served as Shadow Secretary of State for Health until late 2010, when he was moved by Miliband to become Shadow Secretary of State for Education.

Health secretary Patricia Hewitt had trouble getting a word in edgeways yesterday when MPs debated the controversial ban on smoking in public places.

... and when he saw that report, the former Secretary of State — now the Shadow Health Secretary — was right to apologise for what went wrong.

Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price said Trump was just joking last week when he threatened to fire him in front of tens of thousands of Boy Scouts, explaining: «Oh... it was a humorous comment that the president made.»

And when John Reid, then MP for Hamilton and North Bellshill, was appointed Blair's health secretary in 2003 when Holyrood had control over nearly all health policy in Scotland, Iain Duncan Smith called it a «democratic monstrosity».

The health secretary wrote that «people should have every confidence we will make the changes necessary» when the health and social care bill returns to parliament in an article for the Telegraph newspaper.

The shadow Health Secretary will argue: «When it comes to helping people on to the housing ladder, Westminster has been failing people for decades.

The evening will have contributed to the sense that the beleaguered health secretary, who handed control of the bill to David Cameron and Nick Clegg when it drew universal criticism, is unable to inspire confidence in his abilities.

«Health secretaries are never popular, you're never going to win a contest for being the most liked person when you do this job.

The international development secretary was forced to apologise for telling a racist and sexist joke at a Christmas party in 2000, when he was shadow health secretary and a rising Tory star.

Accompanied by health secretary Patricia Hewitt, Mr Blair spoke of the NHS's achievements since 1997, when, he claimed, it was common for patients to wait 18 months between referral and treatment.

How surprised we all were, therefore, when the Conservative - Liberal Democrat government, with Tory health secretary Andrew Lansley at the helm, proposed exactly that.

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.

Shadow health secretary John Healey said: «The last thing the NHS needs is a high - cost, high - risk reorganisation at a time when, in the government's own words, it is attempting to make «unprecedented» efficiency savings.

Newly appointed Shadow Health Secretary Ms Abbott, who opposed the invasion when it was launched in 2003, said Mr Blair had clearly not studied the consequences of his decision to go to war.

The shadow health secretary, Andrew Lansley, refused to endorse the proposal when he was asked about it on BBC Radio 4's Today programme this morning.

Preet Bharara was overseeing an investigation into the Health secretary's stock trades when the Trump administration demanded his resignation.

[14][15] When the Conservative Party won the 1979 general election, he was appointed Parliamentary Under - Secretary of State at the Department of Health and Social Security.

Richard Marsh is a former Special Adviser to Virginia Bottomley when she was Secretary of State for Health

The health secretary dodged the question, but couldn't avoid it when confronted once more by the supremely acidic Luciana Berger.

The legal battle started when a Belfast judge ruled that Northern Ireland health minister Edwin Poots did not have the power to maintain a lifetime ban on gay men giving blood and that it was up to the secretary of state to make the call.

A senior Labour source said: «This raises serious questions about Andrew Lansley's judgement and it is difficult to see how he can continue on in his role as shadow health secretary when it would appear that a private health care company is helping to fund the development of Tory healthy policy.

• Supporters of Liz Kendall tried to arrange for her and then shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper to stand aside to give shadow health secretary Andy Burnham a clear run when it became apparent support for Corbyn was surging

I say to the Under - Secretary of State for Health, the hon. Member for Broxtowe (Anna Soubry)-- perhaps she will have the courtesy to listen when she is being spoken to from the Chair — that it is not acceptable for any Member of the House to treat the debate as a private conversation between himself or herself and the Member on his or her feet.

She was Shadow Health Secretary from when Jeremy Corbyn took over as leader in September 2015, before quitting in June the following year amid a string of resignations in the party.

Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt said he does not doubt Andy Burnham's «personal integrity» following a row over allegations his opposite number was involved in a hospital «cover up» when he was in office.

The Under - Secretary of State for Health, the hon. Member for Broxtowe (Anna Soubry), who responded to the debate, admitted that the Department had known about the south - west cartel when it happened, and that she supported it.

He served on two advisory panels for the National Institutes of Health from 2002 to 2006, when Mr. Azar was general counsel and then deputy secretary of the Department of Health and Human services.

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Katie Myler, a former special adviser to Burnham when he was health secretary, now works for international lobbying company, Burson - Marsteller.

Former health secretary Andy Burnham was «furious» when news leaked of poor standards of care at Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in November 2009, a few months before the general election.

Speaking on ITV's Good Morning Britain, the shadow health secretary went on: «That motion has got my complete and full support and I hope the conference votes for that motion because we should have absolute zero tolerance when it comes to the quite disgusting and pitiful anti-Semitism that sadly we're sometimes seeing on social media these days, and indeed, as I believe if you look at the newspapers, I wasn't there... was at an event in Brighton last night.»

So, when I've got my chancellor speaking up here, or my health secretary speaking up here, let them have the stage.

She was health secretary under Tony Blair but left government when Brown became prime minister in 2007 and is due to stand down as an MP at the next election.

But a consumer advocacy campaign seeking the rule change failed when Department of Health and Human Services secretary Sylvia Matthews Burwell denied the request, saying Medicaid could cover some qualifying low - income women and that others could sign up during the regular enrollment period.

Sir Kenneth Robinson (19 March 1911 — 16 February 1996) was a British Labour politician who served as Minister of Health in Harold Wilson's first government, from 1964 to 1968, when the position was merged into the new title of Secretary of State for Social Services.

Andrew Lansley was elected the Conservative MP for South Cambridgeshire in May 1997 and introduced controversial sweeping reforms of the NHS when he was Health Secretary between 2010 and 2012.

When Pres. Donald Trump announced he was nominating Alex Michael Azar II to be the next secretary of health and human services, Trump called him a «star for better healthcare and lower drug prices.»

Hunt has had some brushes with science, as junior energy minister in the mid-1980s and as Welsh Secretary between 1990 and 1993, when he was responsible for forming policy on industry, transport, health and education.

In 1998, when the three doctors wrote their letter, the secretary of state in charge of health was prominent physician and socialist politician Bernard Kouchner, who until last month was France's foreign minister; his boss in 1998, the minister of employment and solidarity, was Martine Aubry, the current leader of the Socialist Party and a likely presidential candidate in 2012.

The first skirmishes could occur as soon as 23 and 24 February, when Donna Shalala, Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), and Harold Varmus, director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), appear before congressional appropriations committees to defend their 2000 budget proposals.