Health Quotes by Andrew Lansley

The job of the government - and my responsibility - is to help people live healthier lives. The framework is about giving local authorities…

— Andrew Lansley

In the first speech I delivered as health secretary, I made one thing perfectly clear: we need a cultural shift in the NHS: from…

— Andrew Lansley

Safe care saves lives and saves money. Adverse events like high levels of infection, blood clots or falls in hospital, emergency readmissions and pressure…

— Andrew Lansley

Tackling the environment should not be a licence to lecture people, because they have no excuse not to exercise, or eat their fruit and…

— Andrew Lansley

Not reforming the NHS would have been a much easier decision for me as secretary of state to have taken. We could have just…

— Andrew Lansley

I have spent too long with too many people who have lost loved ones to healthcare-associated infections not to be determined to act on…

— Andrew Lansley

If I'm serious about patients and their GPs being able to have more control of their health care, I can't have a top-down system…

— Andrew Lansley

We have to treat smoking as a major public health issue. We have to reduce the extent to which young people start smoking, and…

— Andrew Lansley

In reality, we've had more spending, more bureaucracy, more waste and higher costs but without necessary reform nor rising productivity.

— Andrew Lansley

The culture is about moving to a place where tobacco and smoking isn't part of normal life: people don't encounter it normally, they don't…

— Andrew Lansley

I didn't go into politics because I wanted to win a popularity contest.

— Andrew Lansley

I know that nurses are not only the largest healthcare profession but are responsible for the delivery of most healthcare, and are often in…

— Andrew Lansley

We know, in Wales or in England - you simply can't trust Labour on the NHS. In England, we are delivering for patients while…

— Andrew Lansley

Tell people that biology and the environment cause obesity and they are offered the one thing we have to avoid: an excuse. As it…

— Andrew Lansley

I became a Conservative in the late 1980s because I could see that the Conservative party had transformed Britain's economy and our standing in…

— Andrew Lansley