“ We will empower patients as well as health professionals. We will disempower the hierarchy and bureaucracy. Andrew Lansley
“ The vast majority of people who speak to me say they have had brilliant care. When they are critical, their concern tends not to be directed at the medical side but the ancillary things that surround… Andrew Lansley
“ I think we have to understand that sugar is an essential component of food it's just that sugar in excess is an inappropriate and unhelpful diet. Andrew Lansley
“ 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 healt… Andrew Lansley
“ In the first speech I delivered as health secretary, I made one thing perfectly clear: we need a cultural shift in the NHS: from a culture responsive mainly to orders from the top down to one responsi… Andrew Lansley
“ Jamie Oliver, quite rightly, was talking about trying to improve the diet of children in schools and improving school meals, but the net effect was the number of children eating school meals in many o… Andrew Lansley
“ We have to treat smoking as a major public health issue. We have to reduce the extent to which young people start smoking, and one of the issues is the extent to which display of cigarettes and brands… Andrew Lansley
