Although people are very happy with the service they receive from their GP, they are less happy with access and convenience. Patients are telling us with the health service, you either see your GP or, out-of-hours, go to accident and emergency. We need to make sure that GP surgeries become more accessible. |
By expanding traditional prescribing roles, patients can more easily access the medicines they need from an increased number of highly trained health professionals. |
By the summer of 2007 almost everybody in the workforce, 99% of people, will be in a completely smoke-free environment, |
Extending prescribing responsibilities is an important part of our commitment to modernize the NHS, |
I very much hope entrepreneurial GPs from neighbouring areas may want to expand, |
I'm satisfied that we are making exactly the preparations that we need. |
in order to avoid the issuing of redundancy notices at Rover while efforts are made to keep the business together. |
Many of us would have liked to go that little bit further and faster. |
The Health Bill will include a ban on smoking in enclosed workplaces and public places which will cover 99 percent of the workforce, |
The merger would be against the public interest and should be prohibited, |
There is no question of the NHS being privatised. |
There is total agreement on 99 percent of the policy. On the 1 percent, not only in government but I think across the country, there was real disagreement, |
This bill is going to save thousands of people's lives. |
We are monitoring the situation literally day by day, ... We will review the funding in the light of this work. |
We are trying to find out what patients need, rather than what it suits us to provide. And the people are saying: 'We want services to work together.' They ask: 'Why do I have to tell my story over and over again to different people; why can't I see the same person, or if that's not possible, why can't they pass the information on to other people.' |