63 Quotes by Andrew Lansley

The government's current approach is a U-turn on previous policy and its application is riddled with flaws.

The government has done too little too late to protect the health of the population -- in June 2004 I told the government to produce a comprehensive strategy,

As part of the E.U., my children can have the freedom and the opportunity to work and live across Europe; to be ambitious in the world's largest market; and to access so much of the history, the culture and the opportunity which is our common European heritage.

This is ridiculous. It shows that GPs are having to engage far more in satisfying local bureaucracies rather than their patients. This is yet more evidence of doctors being under pressure to live in this bogus world of targets met and targets set, when from the patient's point of view the service hasn't improved.

It is unacceptable that out of the most developed countries, Britain was one of the last to order anti-viral agents and publish an emergency preparedness plan.

In reality, we’ve had more spending, more bureaucracy, more waste and higher costs but without necessary reform nor rising productivity.

We have arrived at the point where the public are right in thinking that John Prescott no longer serves a purpose in governing the country, only a purpose in trying to hold together the fragile peace in the Labour Party.

If I’m serious about patients and their GPs being able to have more control of their health care, I can’t have a top-down system that imposes restrictions on the services they need.

Not reforming the NHS would have been a much easier decision for me as secretary of state to have taken. We could have just protected the NHS from cuts, put in an extra £12.5bn and left it there. But sooner or later the cracks would have started to show. New treatments would have been held back.