Andrew Lansley
Andrew Lansley
Andrew David Lansley, Baron Lansley, CBE, PCis a British Conservative politician who served as Member of Parliamentfor South Cambridgeshire from 1997 to 2015...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth11 December 1956
politics
I didn't go into politics because I wanted to win a popularity contest.
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We have had significant success in the reduction of salt in food, but it has to be understood that this can only be achieved working with the industry on a voluntary basis... and it can only be done on an incremental basis.
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In the first speech I delivered as health secretary, I made one thing perfectly clear: we need a cultural shift in the NHS: from a culture responsive mainly to orders from the top down to one responsive to patients, in which patient safety is put first.
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The vast majority of people who speak to me say they have had brilliant care. When they are critical, their concern tends not to be directed at the medical side but the ancillary things that surround it, such as helping patients to eat meals, cleanliness, and making sure that when patients have a problem, they are listened to.
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We will empower patients as well as health professionals. We will disempower the hierarchy and bureaucracy.
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Peer pressure and social norms are powerful influences on behaviour, and they are classic excuses.
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We have to treat smoking as a major public health issue. We have to reduce the extent to which young people start smoking, and one of the issues is the extent to which display of cigarettes and brands does draw young people into smoking in the first place.
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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 see tobacco vending machines.
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This is ridiculous. It shows that GPs are having to engage far more in satisfying local bureaucracies rather than their patients. This is yet more evidence of doctors being under pressure to live in this bogus world of targets met and targets set, when from the patient's point of view the service hasn't improved.
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It is unacceptable that out of the most developed countries, Britain was one of the last to order anti-viral agents and publish an emergency preparedness plan.
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As part of the E.U., my children can have the freedom and the opportunity to work and live across Europe; to be ambitious in the world's largest market; and to access so much of the history, the culture and the opportunity which is our common European heritage.
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We should not make the mistake of equating the E.U. with Europe. Outside the E.U., we wouldn't cease to be Europeans. But, an exit would definitely risk losing those opportunities for our children while growing no similar opportunities elsewhere.
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We must not constantly talk about tackling obesity and warning people about the negative consequences of obesity. Instead we must be positive - positive about the fun and benefits to be had from healthy living, trying to get rid of people's excuses for being obese by tackling the issue in a positive way.
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No decision about me without me.