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 see it in their big supermarkets, they don't see people smoking in public places, they don't… — Andrew Lansley Copy Share Image
Jamie Oliver, quite rightly, was talking about trying to improve the diet of children in schools and improving school meals, but the net effect was the number of children eating school meals in many of these places didn't go up,… — Andrew Lansley Copy Share Image
The job of the government - and my responsibility - is to help people live healthier lives. The framework is about giving local authorities… — Andrew Lansley Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
In reality, we've had more spending, more bureaucracy, more waste and higher costs but without necessary reform nor rising productivity. — Andrew Lansley Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I didn't go into politics because I wanted to win a popularity contest. — Andrew Lansley Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
