Labour today set out plans to improve GP access by abolishing GP practice boundaries. But Conservative plans to let GPs cut their opening hours could see more than 4 million evening and weekend GP appointments lost. Labour's Health Secretary Andy Burnham MP said: "People should take a long hard look at what the Tories say their plans are for the NHS. Evening and weekend opening hours are a ke...
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LabourMatters on 4th Mar 2010 (via labourmatters.com)
Shadow health secretary Andy Burnham warns the government to "get ready for the fight of your life" over plans to overhaul the NHS in England.
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BBCPolitics on 29th Sep 2010 (via bbc.co.uk)
Labour's Health Secretary, Andy Burnham, today wrote to David Cameron challenging him to take formal action against those in his party who do not support the NHS. In his letter, Andy Burnham said: Dear David, On Friday you claimed that the Conservatives are the party of the NHS. I found that surprising. It goes without saying that every single MP, MEP and member of the Labour Party endorses t...
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LabourMatters on 16th Aug 2009 (via labourmatters.com)
Health secretary Andy Burnham has accused his Conservative counterpart of inventing spending plans "live on air".
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ePolitix on 10th Jun 2009 (via rss.feedsportal.com)
Andy Burnham MP, Labour's Shadow Health Secretary, speaking after the release of new waiting times figures this morning, said:
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LabourParty on 17th Nov 2011 (via labour.org.uk)
International survey of frontline doctors rates NHS best for specialist waiting times. Andy Burnham MP, Labour's Health Secretary, slammed the Tories' pledge to scrap cancer treatment guarantees whilst commenting on news that an international survey announced this morning has ranked the NHS a world beater. The Commonwealth Fund survey of frontline doctors in 11 countries ranked the UK as...
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LabourMatters on 4th Nov 2009 (via labourmatters.com)
There were scary rumours around this morning that Caroline Flint was going to get health. Instead, it's to be Andy Burnham, a man who cut his healthcare teeth with Particia Hewitt. Andrew Neil is an excellent interviewer. He cuts to the quick far more quickly than Paxman and Humphreys and does so without causing offence. And why were doctors so dissatisfied with the NHS changes despite the large s...
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NHSBlogDoctor on 5th Jun 2009 (via nhsblogdoc.blogspot.com)
Andy Burnham the health secretary will today admit that age discrimination in the NHS exists and needs to be stamped out.
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Telegraph on 22nd Oct 2009 (via telegraph.co.uk)
Andy Burnham the health secretary has accused David Cameron of planning to turn the NHS into the "world's biggest quango" through reforms which would damage patients' care.
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Telegraph on 18th Aug 2009 (via telegraph.co.uk)
In Andy Burnham's first interview since becoming health secretary, the upbeat former culture chief tells Sarah Boseley that he is determined to trumpet the successes of the NHS and boost the fortunes of an ailing government These are, Andy Burnham concedes ruefully, "not ideal circumstances" in which to be given the job of secretary of state for health. However much he may have wanted it - an...
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Guardian on 10th Jun 2009 (via guardian.co.uk)
THE Tories would turn the National Health Service into the "biggest quango in the world" if they won the next election, Andy Burnham has claimed.
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Scotsman on 18th Aug 2009 (via news.scotsman.com)
