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Andy Burnham

Type: Person

Name: Andy Burnham

Title: Secretary of State for Health

Organization: The Labour Party (United Kingdom)

Date of Birth: 1970-01-07

Place of Birth: Liverpool (United Kingdom)

Nationality: United Kingdom

Fact Sheet: Biography for Andy Burnham

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 9 Documents

The Conservative Party (United Kingdom)

Tories claim elderly could lose out under reforms plan

London : More than two million old people could lose out under the government's plans to offer free social care at home to needy pensioners, the Conservatives claimed yesterday.Andrew SparrowAndrew Lansley, the shadow health secretary, launched a strong ... [Gulf News - 11/19/2009]

Entities: The Conservative Party (United Kingdom), Andrew Lansley, Andy Burnham

First Reported 11/20/2009 - Updated 19 hours ago - 2 Documents

Tory benefits claim 'disgraceful'

A ROW has erupted over the funding of Government care plans as Labour accused the Tories of "disgraceful scaremongering" over claims disabled pensioners will be stripped of benefits.VMinisters were furious after the Tories launched a campaign yesterday ... [Yorkshire Post - 19 hours ago]

Entities: The Conservative Party (United Kingdom), Theresa May, Andy Burnham

First Reported 11/20/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 2 Documents

Gordon Brown

Gordon Brown fights for his elderly care reforms as objections grow

Sam Lister, Health Editor, and Francis Elliott, Deputy Political EditorThe row over Gordon Brown’s care plans for the elderly increased yesterday, forcing him to defend the policy against accusations that it risked causing financial chaos.Mr Brown and ... [Times Online - 11/20/2009]

Entities: Gordon Brown, Andy Burnham, Ed Balls

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents

Thanks to Liverpool ECHO and readers for burns unit victory

IT made a nice change to have some good news last week with the seven Euro Millions winners from Merseyside and the announcement that the burns units in Whiston and Alder Hey hospitals were saved.This followed a vigorous campaign by the ECHO supported ... [Liverpool Echo - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Liverpool (United Kingdom), Kevin White, Andy Burnham

First Reported 18 hours ago - Updated 18 hours ago - 1 Documents

David Cameron

SocietyGuardian.co.uk email briefing 20 November 2009

• News: Swine flu jab to be offered to healthy under-fives• Features: The UN gave children rights - it's time we consulted them• Comment: Kick up a stink for better sanitationWelcome to the daily news round-up from SocietyGuardian.co.uk************** ... [Guardian.co.uk - 18 hours ago]

Entities: Sanitation, David Cameron, Swine Flu, Disability Benefits, Liam Byrne

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents

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NHS

Overspends are another reason to move care away from hospital

The revelation in HSJ this week of significant overspends in 33 primary care trusts is a worrying indicator of problems ahead.The total overspend from those 33 of around £100m in-year is hardly catastrophic, not least because some of their PCT neighbours ... [Health Service Journal - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Absorption, NHS, Andy Burnham, UK Department of Health

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents (in Politics)

Michael White: lessons from US healthcare

I stumbled on a way of thinking about NHS budgets the other day which I hadn’t previously encountered.Forgive me, I lead a sheltered life. But an LSE health economist called Zack Cooper advised primary care trusts to start talking about “decommissioning” ... [Health Service Journal - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Michael White, T.R. Reid, Health Care, Mike Richards, Andy Burnham

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents

Tension as a Monitor chair still not named

Foundation trusts and the Monitor board have raised concerns that the government has not yet appointed a chair for the regulator, with less than three months until its current executive chair leaves the organisation. $ The Department of Health insisted ... [Health Service Journal - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Sue Slipman, NHS, Barbara Young, Peter Dixon

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents

Brown pledges to help neediest pensioners...but will it actually happen?

THE Government has pledged to help Britain's neediest pensioners with a free care at home service.In the final address before the nation goes to the polls, Labour revealed plans to offer 280,000 of the most-vulnerable elderly and disabled people with ... [Daily Express - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Michael Gove, Andy Burnham, At Home Corp

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents

Media Watch: patient records

Medical records and their security, or lack of, was the main topic likely to pique NHS managers’ interest in the news this week - if, that is, you discount stories about the “miracle jab for snorers” and the “mindbend potheads” who are apparently flooding ... [Health Service Journal - 11/19/2009]

Entities: NHS, Paul Matthews, Mike O'Brien, Andy Burnham, UK Department of Health

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents

Good God! I was right about something

The Thick of It is more than just a comedy; it’s defining the political lexicon. In this afternoon’s Queen Speech debate (quite how our esteemed representatives can spend two days debating seven minutes worth of platitudes is beyond me), the Health Secretary, ... [Spectator - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Andy Burnham, The Conservative Party (United Kingdom)

First Reported 11/18/2009 - Updated 11/18/2009 - 3 Documents

Queen's Speech: concerns raised over free care for elderly plan

From the autumn, around 280,000 older people and disabled adults who need help to carry out basic functions such as dressing, getting out of bed and using the lavatory will receive free care.Another 130,000 frail patients, including stroke sufferers, ... [Telegraph - 11/18/2009]

Entities: Parkinson's Disease, David Rogers, Help the Aged, Disability Benefits

Quotes

The Tories claimed the government plan could involve "taking on average £3,400 a year away from 2.4m pensioners, wrecking their chances of living independently and having the freedom to tailor their care to their needs" . To justify their allegations, the Tories quoted from a speech Burnham gave to the National Children and Adult Services conference in October

Tories say elderly will lose out over care [Observer - 11/19/2009]

Andy Burnham, the Health Secretary, said: "we know that people want to stay independent by living in their own homes for as long as possible."

Queen's Speech: concerns raised over free care for elderly plan [Telegraph - 11/18/2009]

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A belated attempt to force hand of Tory 'gamblers' [The Independent - 8 hours ago]
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Parties battle for LTC vote [Money Marketing Online - 18 hours ago]
Tory benefits claim 'disgraceful' [Yorkshire Post - 19 hours ago]
John Baron MP challenges health secretary on ca... [ePolitix.com - 19 hours ago]
Yesterday in parliament [Guardian.co.uk - 21 hours ago]
Benefits could be axed to fund care for the eld... [The Independent - 11/20/2009]
Gordon Brown fights for his elderly care reform... [Times Online - 11/20/2009]
Gordon Brown fights for his elderly care reform... [Times Online - 11/20/2009]
Tories claim elderly could lose out under refor... [Gulf News - 11/19/2009]
Cameron accused of scaremongering over elderly ... [Telegraph - 11/19/2009]
Tories accused of scaremongering over Labour pl... [Guardian.co.uk - 11/19/2009]
David Cameron's sparks row after warning the el... [Telegraph - 11/19/2009]
PCT deficits [Health Service Journal - 11/19/2009]
Good God! I was right about something [Spectator - 11/19/2009]
Labour peer attacks care proposal [BBC - 11/19/2009]
'Death Panels' -- By: Andrew Stuttaford [National Review - 11/19/2009]
Tories accused of 'scaremongering' over social ... [Guardian.co.uk - 11/19/2009]
Tories claim 2 million elderly people could los... [Guardian.co.uk - 11/19/2009]
Tories 'scaremongering' on social care [Guardian.co.uk - 11/19/2009]
Queen Speech: Gordon Brown pledges to help need... [Daily Express - 11/19/2009]
Thanks to Liverpool ECHO and readers for burns ... [Liverpool Echo - 11/19/2009]
Tories say elderly will lose out over care [Observer - 11/19/2009]
Labour peers turn on Gordon Brown over free car... [London Evening Standard - 11/19/2009]
Media Watch: patient records [Health Service Journal - 11/19/2009]
Delays hit modernisation review [Local Government Chronicle - 11/19/2009]
Brown pledges to help neediest pensioners...but... [Daily Express - 11/19/2009]
Tension as a Monitor chair still not named [Health Service Journal - 11/19/2009]
Andrew Grice: A belated attempt to force the ha... [The Independent - 11/19/2009]
Michael White: lessons from US healthcare [Health Service Journal - 11/19/2009]

Blogs

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'Death Panels' -- By: Andrew Stuttaford [The Corner on National Review Online - 11/19/2009] "Death Panels" is an emotional term (to put it mildly) that, as a practical matter, is not necessarily inaccurate. Here are two stories from right-of-center British ...
Government wields duster to spruce up care bill [Comment is free \| guardian.co.uk - 11/18/2009] Listening to the Queen reading her leisurely seven-minute speech from the throne, it was hard not to imagine ministers ransacking the attic, dusting off odd bits ...
David Cameron was wide of the mark \| Queen's sp... [Comment is free \| guardian.co.uk - 11/18/2009] Tory predictions about the Queen's speech were way off. Instead we got a rather modest little package of billsGiven the ferocious attack made on today's Queen's ...
Was today's Queen's speech a waste of time? \| M... [Politics: Politics blog \| guardian.co.uk - 11/18/2009] I am struggling to persuade myself that today's Queen's speech was anything other than a trivial occasionWas the turnout of Labour MPs ready to troop over to the ...
Queen's speech – live [Politics: Politics blog \| guardian.co.uk - 11/18/2009] Minute-by-minute coverage of the state opening of parliament, the Queen's speech and the rest of today's pomp and ceremony8.23am: The state opening of parliament ...

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