Andrew Lansley Quotes

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Andrew Lansley

Profession : Politician

Birth : December 11, 1956

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.

Andrew Lansley

As a Coalition Government, we inherited a legacy of lack of trust and confidence in political system.

Andrew Lansley

Not reforming the NHS would have been a much easier decision for me as secretary of state to have taken. We could have just protected the NHS from cuts, put in an extra £12.5bn and left it there. But sooner or later the cracks would have started to show. New treatments would have been held back.

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The NHS is a national organisation, but it is best delivered locally.

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I didn't go into politics because I wanted to win a popularity contest.

Andrew Lansley

Jamie Oliver, quite rightly, was talking about trying to improve the diet of children in schools and improving school meals, but the net effect was the number of children eating school meals in many of these places didn't go up, it went down.

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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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You should be able to choose which hospital you go to.

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If, like me, nothing is more important to you than our children's future, then their opportunities must be protected.

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Tell people that biology and the environment cause obesity and they are offered the one thing we have to avoid: an excuse. As it is, people who see more fat people around them may themselves be more likely to gain weight.

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It is in my heart that I believe most strongly that our future is within a reformed E.U. - not least because we now live in a global marketplace.

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We know, in Wales or in England - you simply can't trust Labour on the NHS. In England, we are delivering for patients while Labour just use the NHS as a political football. We won't let them; we'll always fight for the NHS.

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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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I know that nurses are not only the largest healthcare profession but are responsible for the delivery of most healthcare, and are often in the best place to be able to see the whole pathway of care.

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Go to any hospital, you'll find wards that are run by senior nurses with matrons. The point is do they have the power, do they have the responsibility inside the hospital?

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You can't simply slash the sugar in food; otherwise, people simply won't accept it.

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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 became a Conservative in the late 1980s because I could see that the Conservative party had transformed Britain's economy and our standing in the world compared to Labour in the 1980s.

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I'm not going to go mystery shopping in the NHS because we have a million people every day using it and rating its facilities.

Andrew Lansley

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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