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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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 this. There is no tolerable level of preventable infections. The only acceptable strategy is a zero-tolerance strategy.
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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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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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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.
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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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If, over time, patients don't go to some services, then progressively they become less viable, so you do arrive at a point where the conclusion is: 'These are the right services for the future, and this is capacity we don't need.'
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I was shadow health secretary for six years, and the beauty of being in opposition - if there is any beauty - is that you tend to get a pretty unvarnished view because no one bothers to paint the coal white before you turn up.
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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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I am not saying do not give people equal health services but do not pretend that giving more money for diabetes or chronic diseases means you are going to deal with the origins of health inequalities.