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

~Andrew Lansley

Topics: Behaviour Classic Excuses Influences Norms Peer Peer Pressure Powerful Pressure Social

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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 it, such as helping patients to eat meals, cleanliness, and making sure that when patients have a problem, they are listened to.

~Andrew Lansley

Topics: Brilliant Care Cleanliness Concern Critical Directed Eat Had Helping Listened Majority Making Me Meals Medical Patients People Problem Say Side Speak Sure Surround Tends Things Vast Vast Majority Who

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Tackling the environment should not be a licence to lecture people, because they have no excuse not to exercise, or eat their fruit and vegetables. Nannying - at least among adults - is likely to be counterproductive. Providing information is empowering; lecturing people is not. So, no excuses, no nannying.

~Andrew Lansley

Topics: Adult Among Because Counterproductive Eat Empowering Environment Excuse Excuses Exercise Fruit Information Least Lecture Licence Likely No Excuse People Providing Should Tackling Vegetables

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The NHS is a national organisation, but it is best delivered locally.

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Topics: Best Delivered Locally National Organisation Nhs

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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 does draw young people into smoking in the first place.

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Topics: Brands Cigarettes Display Does Draw Extent First First Place Health Issue Issues Major People Place Public Public Health Reduce Smoking Start Treat Which Young Young People

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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

Topics: Adverse Billions Blood Care Cost Dead Emergency Ending Even Events Every Falls High Hospital Human Infection Injured Levels Like Lives Money Most Patients Pounds Pressure Right Safe Saves Serious Too Up Year Nhs

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I became a Conservative in the late 1980s because I could see that the Conservative party had transformed Britain's economy and our standing in the world compared to Labour in the 1980s.

~Andrew Lansley

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Tell people that biology and the environment cause obesity and they are offered the one thing we have to avoid: an excuse. As it is, people who see more fat people around them may themselves be more likely to gain weight.

~Andrew Lansley

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The culture is about moving to a place where tobacco and smoking isn't part of normal life: people don't encounter it normally, they don't see it in their big supermarkets, they don't see people smoking in public places, they don't see tobacco vending machines.

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Topics: About Big Culture Encounter Life Machines Moving Normal Normal Life Normally Part People Place Places Public See Smoking Tobacco Vending Where

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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 of these places didn't go up, it went down.

~Andrew Lansley

Topics: About Children Diet Down Eating Effect Go Improve Improving Jamie Many Meals Net Number Oliver Places Quite Rightly School Schools Talking Trying Up

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Politician

Born: December 11th, 1956

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