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
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The government has done too little too late to protect the health of the population -- in June 2004 I told the government to produce a comprehensive strategy,
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The NHS should be proactively using substantial resources across government to intervene and try to deliver positive improvements in people's standards of living.
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I want to make it clear that the lobbying sector does an important job. It is very useful to the government to hear the views of a broad range of groups to make sure we get the best.
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You don't come into government thinking it is going to be easy.
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As a Coalition Government, we inherited a legacy of lack of trust and confidence in political system.
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The job of the government - and my responsibility - is to help people live healthier lives. The framework is about giving local authorities the ability to focus on the most effective ways to improve the public's health and reduce health inequalities, long-term, from cradle to grave.
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I think the Government is trying to cover up its own negligence by blaming GPs and that is a disgrace.
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NICE should be in charge of implementing any guidelines, not the government.
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Many clinical priorities aren't recorded and some targets, like A&E and GP bookings, create more problems than they solve.
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When you have an election campaign,it has to be simple and something everybody can relate to.
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The government's current approach is a U-turn on previous policy and its application is riddled with flaws.
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We must aim for a zero-tolerance approach to hospital-acquired infections; we have to be clear about who's in charge at ward level, so there's proper accountability, and we need to reduce the reliance on agency nursing staff.
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Underperforming hospitals or units should accept that they have to improve the service they offer or that patients, quite properly, will go elsewhere.
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There's a culture inside the NHS that is highly paternalistic. You know, 'We give them the service and they are grateful.' We have to move to shared decision-making.