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
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Extending prescribing responsibilities is an important part of our commitment to modernize the NHS,
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This bill is going to save thousands of people's lives.
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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.
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I very much hope entrepreneurial GPs from neighbouring areas may want to expand,
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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,
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By expanding traditional prescribing roles, patients can more easily access the medicines they need from an increased number of highly trained health professionals.
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I'm satisfied that we are making exactly the preparations that we need.
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in order to avoid the issuing of redundancy notices at Rover while efforts are made to keep the business together.
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I suppose the one very striking thing, you know, to a British observer is the fact that Labour is in power in every State in Australia.
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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.
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The Health Bill will include a ban on smoking in enclosed workplaces and public places which will cover 99 percent of the workforce,
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Many of us would have liked to go that little bit further and faster.
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There is no question of the NHS being privatised.
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Business leaders must not cling to old ways of doing business, or allow inertia or complacency to prevent them from making the decisions that they will eventually be forced to make.