Before the reshuffle Andy Burnham declared a desire to remain in his dream job of Culture Media and Sport but promotion to the Department of Health proved too tempting.

In a pledge so carefully worded it already anticipates its own failure excuses, Labour’s health secretary Andy Burnham yesterday pledged to abolish hospital parking fees: It’s not right if some people don’t get visitors every day because families can’t afford the parking fees. … We can’t do it overnight, but over the next three years, as

Sign up to the Drop the Bill campaign here Andy Burnham MP, Labour's Shadow Secretary of State for Health, said in response to the news that Circle Health Care has won the contract to manage Hinchingbrooke Hospital:

Andy Burnham MP, Labour's Shadow Health Secretary, said in response to David Cameron's announcement on hospital care:

Andy Burnham MP, Labour's Health Secretary, today announced at the Labour Party's Annual Conference that Labour will cancel car parking charges at NHS hospitals. Andy Burnham said: "When people are coming in to hospital, the last thing they want to worry about is keeping the car parking ticket up-to-date. But, for families of the sickest patients, the costs can really rack up. "It's...

Andy Burnham MP, Labour’s Health Secretary, today announced at the Labour Party’s Annual Conference that Labour will cancel car parking charges at NHS hospitals. Andy Burnham said: “When people are coming in to hospital, the last thing they want to worry about is keeping the car parking ticket up-to-date. But, for families of the sickest

Andy Burnham, that football-mad Liverpool lad, is to be the new boss of the non-communist world's largest workforce: Health Secretary. He has thus fulfilled the prophesy bestowed on him when he was named The Spectator-Threadneedle's "minister to watch" in 2006. Burnham was a former health minister (I interviewed him in Richmond House at the time) so will know the department a b...

A leading children's hospital is to be censured by the NHS watchdog for endangering the safety of vulnerable young patients by offering them substandard care. The Healthcare Commission will issue a highly critical report on Birmingham Children's Hospital that will highlight numerous failings in both quality of care and management processes. The hospital announced yesterday that Paul O�...

Andy Burnham MP, Labour's Shadow Health Secretary, in a speech to the Centre for Social Justice, said:

Parking charges for inpatients in England to be phased out over next three years the Health Secretary has announced.