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Tackling the environment should not be a licence to lecture people, because they have no excuse not to exercise, or eat their fruit and vegetables. Nannying - at least among adults - is likely to be counterproductive. Providing information is empowering; lecturing people is not. So, no excuses, no nannying.
Andrew Lansley Quotes: Tackling the environment should not
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?
Andrew Lansley Quotes: Go to any hospital, you'll
No decision about me without me.
Andrew Lansley Quotes: No decision about me without
In reality, we've had more spending, more bureaucracy, more waste and higher costs but without necessary reform nor rising productivity.
Andrew Lansley Quotes: In reality, we've had more
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.
Andrew Lansley Quotes: The culture is about moving
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.
Andrew Lansley Quotes: I know that nurses are
If I'm serious about patients and their GPs being able to have more control of their health care, I can't have a top-down system that imposes restrictions on the services they need.
Andrew Lansley Quotes: If I'm serious about patients
We have had significant success in the reduction of salt in food, but it has to be understood that this can only be achieved working with the industry on a voluntary basis ... and it can only be done on an incremental basis.
Andrew Lansley Quotes: We have had significant success
We will never privatise the National Health Service.
Andrew Lansley Quotes: We will never privatise the
You don't come into government thinking it is going to be easy.
Andrew Lansley Quotes: You don't come into government
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.
Andrew Lansley Quotes: There's a culture inside the
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.
Andrew Lansley Quotes: I want to make it
Especially some of the poorest in our society need to have the greatest support because health inequalities are too wide.
Andrew Lansley Quotes: Especially some of the poorest
You all know my commitment to the National Health Service. While I am Secretary of State, the NHS will never be fragmented, privatised or undermined. I am personally committed to an NHS which gives equal access, and excellent care.
Andrew Lansley Quotes: You all know my commitment
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.
Andrew Lansley Quotes: The job of the government
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.'
Andrew Lansley Quotes: If, over time, patients don't
We will empower patients as well as health professionals. We will disempower the hierarchy and bureaucracy.
Andrew Lansley Quotes: We will empower patients as
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.
Andrew Lansley Quotes: It is in my heart
Experience in other countries shows how big money, rather than the best political candidate, can influence politics.
Andrew Lansley Quotes: Experience in other countries shows
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.
Andrew Lansley Quotes: I became a Conservative in
When you have an election campaign,it has to be simple and something everybody can relate to.
Andrew Lansley Quotes: When you have an election
We have to treat smoking as a major public health issue. We have to reduce the extent to which young people start smoking, and one of the issues is the extent to which display of cigarettes and brands does draw young people into smoking in the first place.
Andrew Lansley Quotes: We have to treat smoking
We have arrived at the point where the public are right in thinking that John Prescott no longer serves a purpose in governing the country, only a purpose in trying to hold together the fragile peace in the Labour Party
Andrew Lansley Quotes: We have arrived at the
You should be able to choose which hospital you go to.
Andrew Lansley Quotes: You should be able to
We should not make the mistake of equating the E.U. with Europe. Outside the E.U., we wouldn't cease to be Europeans. But, an exit would definitely risk losing those opportunities for our children while growing no similar opportunities elsewhere.
Andrew Lansley Quotes: We should not make the
The NHS is a national organisation, but it is best delivered locally.
Andrew Lansley Quotes: The NHS is a national
The Transparency Bill is something we should all support - practical steps in promoting an open and accountable democracy.
Andrew Lansley Quotes: The Transparency Bill is something
Peer pressure and social norms are powerful influences on behaviour, and they are classic excuses.
Andrew Lansley Quotes: Peer pressure and social norms
Underperforming hospitals or units should accept that they have to improve the service they offer or that patients, quite properly, will go elsewhere.
Andrew Lansley Quotes: Underperforming hospitals or units should
As part of the E.U., my children can have the freedom and the opportunity to work and live across Europe; to be ambitious in the world's largest market; and to access so much of the history, the culture and the opportunity which is our common European heritage.
Andrew Lansley Quotes: As part of the E.U.,
In the first speech I delivered as health secretary, I made one thing perfectly clear: we need a cultural shift in the NHS: from a culture responsive mainly to orders from the top down to one responsive to patients, in which patient safety is put first.
Andrew Lansley Quotes: In the first speech I
Our interaction as patients with the NHS should be on the basis that there's a presumption that all information is shared with us.
Andrew Lansley Quotes: Our interaction as patients with
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.
Andrew Lansley Quotes: I was shadow health secretary
You can't simply slash the sugar in food; otherwise, people simply won't accept it.
Andrew Lansley Quotes: You can't simply slash the
I didn't go into politics because I wanted to win a popularity contest.
Andrew Lansley Quotes: I didn't go into politics
As a Coalition Government, we inherited a legacy of lack of trust and confidence in political system.
Andrew Lansley Quotes: As a Coalition Government, we
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.
Andrew Lansley Quotes: We must aim for a
It is more important to engage the public positively with choice and competition to everyone than to be directed into a benefit for a minority.
Andrew Lansley Quotes: It is more important to
Safe care saves lives and saves money. Adverse events like high levels of infection, blood clots or falls in hospital, emergency readmissions and pressure sores cost the NHS billions of pounds every year. There is a serious human cost, too, with patients ending up injured, or even dead. Most are avoidable with the right care.
Andrew Lansley Quotes: Safe care saves lives and
I think we have to understand that sugar is an essential component of food; it's just that sugar in excess is an inappropriate and unhelpful diet.
Andrew Lansley Quotes: I think we have to
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