Patricia Hewitt

Patricia Hewitt
Patricia Hope Hewittis a Labour politician, who served in the Cabinet until 2007, most recently as Secretary of State for Health...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth2 December 1948
funding light literally review situation
We are monitoring the situation literally day by day, ... We will review the funding in the light of this work.
ask care community disease empower good people promote receive services treat
We want to ask people how services can more effectively promote good health, as well as treat disease, and how we can empower people to have more say in the care they receive in the community and their homes.
access accident although either happy health less patients people receive service sure telling
Although people are very happy with the service they receive from their GP, they are less happy with access and convenience. Patients are telling us with the health service, you either see your GP or, out-of-hours, go to accident and emergency. We need to make sure that GP surgeries become more accessible.
across agreement government percent total
There is total agreement on 99 percent of the policy. On the 1 percent, not only in government but I think across the country, there was real disagreement,
bill save thousands
This bill is going to save thousands of people's lives.
almost everybody summer
By the summer of 2007 almost everybody in the workforce, 99% of people, will be in a completely smoke-free environment,
exactly satisfied
I'm satisfied that we are making exactly the preparations that we need.
access easily expanding health highly increased medicines number patients trained
By expanding traditional prescribing roles, patients can more easily access the medicines they need from an increased number of highly trained health professionals.
ignorance mean fifty
Fifty per cent of the public doesn't know what 'fifty per cent' means.
thinking talking differences
You don't repair that relationship by sitting down and talking about trust or making promises. Actually, what rebuilds it is living it and doing things differently - and I think that is what is going to make the difference.
soul authenticity modern
The accusation that we've lost our soul resonates with a very modern concern about authenticity.
inspiring mothers-day government
And some of what we're doing in Government even now, some of the welfare reform programs that are helping lone mothers come into work are based on things that were very new under the Labour Government in the eighties.
thinking people community
I think he was absolutely right not to go to UN last week... First things first - that is, values and people here in their local communities, and remembering all politics is local, and trusting people more.
party thinking roles
You've got to respond to that and of course thinking through the role of a left party in the modern world, in the modern economy and society and having a policy response to that.