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
avoid business efforts notices order rover
in order to avoid the issuing of redundancy notices at Rover while efforts are made to keep the business together.
exactly satisfied
I'm satisfied that we are making exactly the preparations that we need.
against interest merger public
The merger would be against the public interest and should be prohibited,
areas hope
I very much hope entrepreneurial GPs from neighbouring areas may want to expand,
bill save thousands
This bill is going to save thousands of people's lives.
bit further liked
Many of us would have liked to go that little bit further and faster.
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.
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,
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.
question
There is no question of the NHS being privatised.
almost everybody summer
By the summer of 2007 almost everybody in the workforce, 99% of people, will be in a completely smoke-free environment,
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.
commitment extending
Extending prescribing responsibilities is an important part of our commitment to modernize the NHS,