Example sentences of "health secretary " in BNC.
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| 1 | The guidance says that Kenneth Clarke , the Health Secretary , ‘ is minded ’ to go for Japanese-style pendulum arbitration — where the arbiter would be free only to find for one party or the other , and would not be able to compromise . |
| 2 | A leak of an early draft of the White Paper on community care led to a clash yesterday between Kenneth Clarke , the Health Secretary , and Harriet Harman , Labour 's health spokesman . |
| 3 | The Divisional Court dismissed a general medical practitioner 's application for judicial review of the Health Secretary 's decision that Coventry Family Practitioners ' Committee acted within its powers and duties in imposing a condition on the doctor 's use of the BMA/Air Call Deputising Service . |
| 4 | The Health Secretary accused the unions of ‘ posturing and pretending ’ to run a 999 service yesterday . |
| 5 | The decision to use the army was taken by the Health Secretary , Mr Kenneth Clarke , despite the fact that ambulance staff are still offering emergency cover . |
| 6 | The decision to use the army was taken by the Health Secretary , Mr Kenneth Clarke , despite the fact that ambulance staff are not on strike . |
| 7 | The decision to use the army , even though ambulance crews are not on strike but still offering to provide an emergency service , was taken by Mr Kenneth Clarke , the Health Secretary , as Mr Duncan Nichol , the National Health Service chief executive , told the Guardian that the Government 's negotiating position included a desire to offer extra pay to paramedical crews . |
| 8 | Mr Robin Cook , the shadow Health Secretary , who advised the Government to call in the arbitrators rather than the army , said that Mr Clarke had given no good explanation for his precipitate action . |
| 9 | With the call-up of the troops by Mr Kenneth Clarke , the Health Secretary , came fresh revelations yesterday that the Government wants to settle the dispute with a deal that would allow local managers to top up the pay of crews with special paramedical skills . |
| 10 | Mr Robin Cook , the shadow Health Secretary , who advised the Government to call in arbitrators rather than the army , said that Mr Clarke had given no satisfactory explanation for his precipitate action . |
| 11 | Still , the Health Secretary blushed becomingly at Mr Pawsey 's expression of adoration . |
| 12 | The Health Secretary , Mr Kenneth Clarke , said he had no intention of moving student nurses on to loans . |
| 13 | Health Secretary fends off Commons accusations over decision to mobilise the army in ambulance dispute Strike-break jibe at Clarke . |
| 14 | THE Health Secretary Mr Kenneth Clarke yesterday rejected claims that he was trying to break the ambulancemen 's strike when he told MPs he had decided the army would be mobilised to help to answer emergency calls in London . |
| 15 | The Health Secretary had accepted recommendations addressed to his department , and had already introduced a review of the health service 's response to major incidents . |
| 16 | Picking through the Health Secretary Mr Kenneth Clarke 's references in Thursday 's acrimonious emergency debate in the Commons , where he said the claim amounted to 20 per cent , union leaders publicly pared down their demands . |
| 17 | Mr Kenneth Clarke , Health Secretary , promised more government funding , less waste and a better service for patients . |
| 18 | Mr Kenneth Clarke , the Health Secretary , yesterday said that the latest pay offer made last Friday was worth 9 per cent and 11.55 per cent in London . |
| 19 | Mr Robin Cook , shadow Health Secretary , said : ‘ We could not have chosen a better issue to put centre stage for the first televised session of Parliament . ’ |
| 20 | Mr Kenneth Clarke , the Health Secretary , said in response to questioning by reporters that there was no provision in the measure to require regional health authorities to keep within their proposed firm drugs budgets . |
| 21 | One of the few unexpected measures in the legislation is a clause removing the need for the Health Secretary to authorise private patient facilities in NHS hospitals . |
| 22 | Despite the all-party Social Services Committee report which criticised the pace at which Mr Kenneth Clarke , the Health Secretary , intended to introduce the reforms , as much as the proposals themselves , Tory dissent is likely to be confined to those rebels with detailed knowledge . |
| 23 | A preview of the Commons debate was held in the Lords yesterday where Lord Ennals , a former Labour Health Secretary , warned the Government it could not push the proposals through the NHS in the knowledge that they were opposed by the medical profession 's leaders . |
| 24 | His counsel , Lord Irvine , QC , accused Mr Kenneth Clarke , the Health Secretary , of ‘ jumping the gun without the authority of Parliament ’ in authorising expenditure on the creation of self-governing hospital trusts . |
| 25 | In a Labour survey of 130 of the 191 district health authorities in England , 92 said they will have to make cuts in services and jobs totalling £100 million by the end of the financial year , Mr Robin Cook , shadow health secretary said yesterday . |
| 26 | Mr Kenneth Clarke , the Health Secretary , won £105 in a Tory sweepstake predicting votes in the leadership contest . |
| 27 | The outcome of an earlier association ballot was kept quiet while the talks lasted under an agreement with the Health Secretary , Mr Kenneth Clarke . |
| 28 | Yet this added the one element of excitement to yesterday 's speech by the Health Secretary , introducing the second reading of the NHS Bill . |
| 29 | The Health Secretary began with the now-familiar defence of his proposals . |
| 30 | ’ This part of the Health Secretary 's speech would have been better set to some wailing violins . |