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From Secretary of State for Health
  • Public service pensions – the NHS Pension Scheme

    The Health Secretary has today written to various bodies about about the government's proposed changes to public service pension schemes.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Get ready for winter

    Government, Age UK and Met Office launch plans to keep people warm and healthy in the cold weather

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Plan launched to keep us healthy this winter

    The ‘Cold weather plan for England’ 2011, which aims to protect people’s health throughout the cold winter months

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • 26 October 2011, Andrew Lansley, Rooting Out Poor Performance, Reform

    Andrew Lansley's speech about poor performance.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust

    The Health Secretary today accepted a report by the Independent Reconfiguration Panel (IRP) on the Health for North East London

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Thousands of lives to be saved in biggest roll out of abdominal aortic aneurysm screening

    Implementation of a screening programme for abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA), which will save the lives of thousands of older men was launched today

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Transparency in the NHS: Good for patients, good for doctors

    Health Secretary Andrew Lansley announces 11 new areas of medicine whose outcomes for patients will be audited, monitored and regularly published

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Speech: 22 October 2011, Andrew Lansley, RCGP Annual Primary Care Conference

    Andrew Lansley speaks at the RCGP Annual Primary Care Conference.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Speech: 21 October 2011, Andrew Lansley, NCAS 2011: Tough Times, Good Decisions

    Andrew Lansley speaks at NCAS 2011.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Record low for mixed sex accommodation

    Mixed sex accommodation in the NHS has fallen by over 90 per cent in under a year according to new data published today

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Professor Malcolm Grant confirmed as chair of NHS commissioning board

    Health Secretary responds to announcement of Professor Malcolm Grant as the Chair of the NHS Commissioning Board

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Changes made to NHS Constitution to enshrine whistleblowing law

    Doctors, nurses and other NHS workers who blow the whistle will be protected in the future, under changes to the NHS Constitution.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Lansley names preferred Chair of NHS Commissioning Board

    Professor Malcolm Grant has been named by Health Secretary Andrew Lansley as the preferred choice to head up the NHS Commissioning Board

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Government calls time on obesity

    A bid to slash five billion calories off the nation's daily diet was set out as part of the Government's ambitious new plan to tackle obesity by the Department of Health today.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Innovation in NHS outcomes competition winners announced

    Health Secretary announces winners of outcomes indicators for stroke recovery and children and young people’s experience of healthcare

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Department calls for action on obesity

    ‘Healthy Lives, Healthy People: A call to action on obesity in England’ has been published today.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Greater choice for NHS patients across the country

    NHS patients in England will have the freedom to choose, not only where, but who provides their hospital care from April 2012

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • The public wants more choice of NHS care

    A new patient survey say the public wants more say and greater choice over their NHS healthcare

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • A more transparent and safer NHS for patients

    The NHS will become more transparent under proposals set out by Health Secretary Andrew Lansley

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Foreign doctors must prove they can speak good English

    New rules will ensure all doctors who want to practise in the NHS in England will have to prove they can speak a good standard of English

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government