Health secretary Andy Burnham tells Tom Ireland about plans to drive competition in primary care...Soon after becoming health secretary last year, Andy Burnham was hailed as a man planning to steer ...
was impressed, however. GPC chairman Dr Laurence Buckman has since accused the health secretary and the Labour ...
Burnham resists an early offer to trash Conservative health policy when we meet at the DoH's headquarters ...
The majority of GPs now favour Conservative health policy despite opposing Tory plans to impose...prefer Labour's health policies. The survey of 314 GPs found 53 per cent plan to vote Con servative ...
to scrap practice boundaries. With the election campaign under way and focused on health, nearly 6 per ...
the Conservatives were seen as having the worst health policy of the major parties. Conservative shadow health ...
, according to health secretary Andrew Lansley....conference, health secretary Andrew Lansley responded to key concerns raised:
GPs ...
-and-answer session after the speech, south London GP Dr Eugenia Lee asked the health secretary what would happen to a ...
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Summary care record to be radically cut back, says health secretary
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In an exclusive interview with GP newspaper, health secretary Andrew Lansley talks to Tom Ireland...As the consultation on the White Paper Liberating the NHS draws to a close, health secretary ...
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Speaking to GP at the DoH's Whitehall headquarters, the health secretary is relaxed but at times ...
negative isn't it? You're GP newspaper and you think GPs are going to fail?'
When pushed, the health ...
to design better care for our patients.'
The RCGP backed the direction of travel, he said, because ...
GPs'.
Former health minister Lord Darzi had done 'a great job of putting quality at the heart ...
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Large numbers of patients, including travellers, sex workers, the homeless and asylum seekers 'do ...
11 Jun 2009
Click on the links below to read the full stories Exclusive: PCTs block LARCs in bid to cut costs Funding fears for prevalence losers Andy Burnham replaces Alan Johnson as health secretary Sexual health is still a Cinderella service PCTs dragging their feet over access ...
15 Jan 2010
Health minister Mike O'Brien claims Conservative health policy would return the NHS 'to its knees ...
back on its knees'. He claims many of Conservative shadow health secretary Andrew Lansley's policies ...
to have sympathy for poor old Andrew. David Cameron has taken control of health policy and humiliated him ...
23 Jul 2009
stalls Swine flu advice for people with asthma DoH backs urban allotments to improve mental health ...
general practice will need to be 'more proactive' in preventing ill-health, and has to work closer with councils to improve health locally and reduce health inequalities.
But can this vision be achieved ...
the reforms could shift focus away from improving quality and says the Health Bill does not properly ...
09 Jun 2010
In 2010, as soon as a major health event occurs to a human being or one of their family, someone ...
. There is considerable research and development going on into health decision aids (HDAs), which show patients a number ...
In the jargon, he is clearly an 'internal controller' and wants a Socratic dialogue with his health professional ...