"Not reforming the NHS would have been a……" — 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 protected the NHS from cuts, put in an extra £12.5bn and left it there. But sooner or later the cracks would have started to show. New treatments would have been held back."
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Andrew Lansley
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13 Quotes by Andrew Lansley
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In reality, we've had more spending, more bureaucracy, more waste and higher costs but without necessary reform nor rising productivity.
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I know that nurses are not only the largest healthcare profession but are responsible for the delivery of most healthcare,…
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We have arrived at the point where the public are right in thinking that John Prescott no longer serves a…
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We have to treat smoking as a major public health issue. We have to reduce the extent to which young…
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In the first speech I delivered as health secretary, I made one thing perfectly clear: we need a cultural shift…
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Safe care saves lives and saves money. Adverse events like high levels of infection, blood clots or falls in hospital,…
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You all know my commitment to the National Health Service. While I am Secretary of State, the NHS will never…
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I have spent too long with too many people who have lost loved ones to healthcare-associated infections not to be…
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We will empower patients as well as health professionals. We will disempower the hierarchy and bureaucracy.
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Tell people that biology and the environment cause obesity and they are offered the one thing we have to avoid:…
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Peer pressure and social norms are powerful influences on behaviour, and they are classic excuses.
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Tackling the environment should not be a licence to lecture people, because they have no excuse not to exercise, or…
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