Andrew Lansley

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

— Andrew Lansley

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

— Andrew Lansley

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

— Andrew Lansley

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

— Andrew Lansley

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

— 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…

— 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…

— Andrew Lansley

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

— 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,…

— 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…

— Andrew Lansley

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

— Andrew Lansley

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

— 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…

— Andrew Lansley

Look back to 1948 when the British Medical Association denounced Aneurin Bevan as 'a would-be Führer' for wanting them to join a…

— Andrew Lansley

Peer pressure and social norms are powerful influences on behaviour, and they are classic excuses.

— Andrew Lansley

We will empower patients as well as health professionals. We will disempower the hierarchy and bureaucracy.

— Andrew Lansley

We must not constantly talk about tackling obesity and warning people about the negative consequences of obesity. Instead we must be positive…

— Andrew Lansley

Jamie Oliver, quite rightly, was talking about trying to improve the diet of children in schools and improving school meals, but the…

— Andrew Lansley

You all know my commitment to the National Health Service. While I am Secretary of State, the NHS will never be fragmented,…

— Andrew Lansley

No decision about me, without me.

— Andrew Lansley

Peer pressure and social norms are powerful influences on behavior, and they are classic excuses.

— Andrew Lansley

We have arrived at the point where the public are right in thinking that John Prescott no longer serves a purpose in…

— Andrew Lansley