Andrew Lansley Quotes

• Peer pressure and social norms are powerful influences
  on behavior, and they are classic excuses.

  Andrew Lansley

  Powerful, Social Pressure, Peer Pressure

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• I know that nurses are not only the largest healthcare profession but are responsible for the delivery of most healthcare, and are often in the best place to be able to see the whole pathway of care.

  Andrew Lansley

  Nurse, Pathways, Care

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• Safe care saves lives and saves money. Adverse events like high levels of infection, blood clots or falls in hospital, emergency readmissions and pressure sores cost the NHS billions of pounds every year. There is a serious human cost, too, with patients ending up injured, or even dead. Most are avoidable with the right care.

  Andrew Lansley

  Fall, Blood, Years

  "An open, transparent NHS is a safer NHS" by Andrew Lansley, www.theguardian.com. November 27, 2010.

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• 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

  Andrew Lansley

  Country, Party, Thinking

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• Look back to 1948 when the British Medical Association denounced Aneurin Bevan as 'a would-be Führer' for wanting them to join a National Health Service. And Bevan himself described the BMA as 'politically poisoned people'. A survey at the time showed only 10 per cent of doctors backed the plans ... But where would we be today if my predecessors had caved in?

  Andrew Lansley

  Doctors, People, Would Be

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

  Andrew Lansley

  Reality, Reform, Cost

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• 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.

  Andrew Lansley

  Top Down, Gps, Serious

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• No decision about me, without me.

  Andrew Lansley

  Decision

  "Andrew Lansley promises information revolution in NHS shakeup" by Sarah Boseley, www.theguardian.com. July 12, 2010.

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• We must not constantly talk about tackling obesity and warning people about the negative consequences of obesity. Instead we must be positive - positive about the fun and benefits to be had from healthy living, trying to get rid of people's excuses for being obese by tackling the issue in a positive way.

  Andrew Lansley

  Fun, Issues, People

  "No excuses for being fat, Tories insist as they launch new deal on public health" by Deborah Summers, www.theguardian.com. August 26, 2008.

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