- Health Reform
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- Nov 07, 2020
NHS Quotes
Voices on a national institution and its debates.
These NHS quotes capture how central the National Health Service is to English identity, with one speaker calling it the closest thing the English have to a religion. Others touch on the Ability to fund and reform the service under real political pressure.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been making the NHS's case that we need significant and sustainable funding increases to meet the demographic challenges we face, and the prime minister completely appreciates that.
- Progress
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- Nov 07, 2020
I get involved in lots of Twitter spats with lots of people when I think they're not being fair about the progress the NHS is making.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I have been speaking to people in Braintree and at other places in the country they really didn't buy into Labour's economic offer, didn't buy into scare stories about the NHS and clearly didn't trust Jeremy Corbyn.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love Scotland; I love the NHS. I was born into the NHS; I grew up in the NHS. My family grew up in the NHS.
- Eye
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I lost the sight of my eye and faced the prospect of going blind, my sight was saved by the NHS.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
From teaching, the NHS and social care, to cleaning and building, the U.K. economy depends heavily on E.U. workers. Under a Canada-style deal for the U.K./E.U., the ability for E.U. workers to live and work freely in the U.K. would stop.
- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm from a salt-of-the-earth, working-class, northern background. My dad's a steelworker and a firefighter, and my mum is a secretary for the NHS.
- Brexit
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- Nov 07, 2020
From the immediate abandonment of the promise of an extra £350m for the NHS, the history of Brexit is already littered with discarded and unfulfillable promises.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
About four or five weeks after it was publicly announced I was no longer breastfeeding, I got a letter from the NHS saying they were being supportive of me, but basically, they were very disappointed I'd stopped.
- Conservative Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
When a Conservative government is presiding over unfair cuts to tax credits, chaos in the NHS and an unnecessary and ideological attack on trade union rights, it is natural that many in the Labour party should be sceptical of Tory talk on devolution - sceptical, even of government deals with Labour-led local authorities.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 responsive to patients, in which patient safety is put first.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020