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
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.
commitment extending
Extending prescribing responsibilities is an important part of our commitment to modernize the NHS,
bill save thousands
This bill is going to save thousands of people's lives.
question
There is no question of the NHS being privatised.
decision leader complacency
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.
pain party years
We just have to be crystal clear that if we were to abandon all the reforms made over some very painful years in the Labour party, we would be consigned back to opposition.
winning people election
Certainly we know from our own experience how very difficult it is when you've lost an election that perhaps a lot of people were expecting you to win.
party alps centre
And I hope very much that the ALP will become increasingly engaged in the international discussions that are taking place amongst centre-left parties generally.
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.
soul authenticity modern
The accusation that we've lost our soul resonates with a very modern concern about authenticity.
ignorance mean fifty
Fifty per cent of the public doesn't know what 'fifty per cent' means.
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.
certainly clearly connecting labour mass needs people reaching reflecting state
So there clearly is a sense in which the Labour Party here, certainly at State level is reaching out and connecting with people and reflecting the aspirations and needs of, you know the mass of ordinary Australians.
absolutely barbara castle committed female model prime role
Barbara Castle should have been Labour's - and Britain's - first female prime minister. What a role model she would have been: passionate, fiery, and absolutely committed to social justice.