Nearly all change at the Health Department
New Health Secretary Alan Johnson |
Prime Minister Gordon Brown has replaced all but one of the ministerial team at the Department of Health.
Alan Johnson, MP for Hull West and Hessle, has replaced Patricia Hewitt
as Secretary of State for Health. His new ministerial team is Dawn Primarolo
(Bristol South), Minister of State; Ben Bradshaw (Exeter), Minister of
State and Minister for the South West; Lord Ara Darzi, Parliamentary
Under-Secretary of State; and Ann Keen (Brentford and Isleworth), Parliamentary
Under-Secretary of State.
The only surviving member of the previous ministerial
team is Ivan Lewis (Bury South), who remains a Parliamentary Under-Secretary.
This is Mr Johnson’s third cabinet post following stints as Secretary
of State for Trade and Industry and as Secretary of State for Work and
Pensions.
Dawn Primarolo has been Paymaster General at the Treasury since January
1999.
Ben Bradshaw has moved to the DoH from the Department of Environment,
Food and Rural Affairs, where he has held posts as Under-Secretary of
State and as Minister of State.
Until his appointment, Lord Darzi was clinical professor of surgery at
London’s Imperial College. He has also been a member of the NHS
Executive and the National Modernisation Board. He was awarded a life
peerage as a result of his appointment as a minister.
Before her appointment to the Department of Health, Ann Keen was Gordon
Brown’s Parliamentary Private Secretary.
Ivan Lewis has previously been a junior minister in the Treasury and
the Department for Education and Skills.
An announcement of separate responsibilities of the new ministers was
awaited as The Journal went to press.
NHS review A
review of the NHS, which will advise on how to meet the challenges
of delivering
health care over the next decade, was announced
by Gordon Brown
and Alan Johnson this week.
Led by Lord Darzi, the review will involve patients,
doctors, nurses and other practitioners, and will be an opportunity to ensure
the future of the NHS is clinically led, says the DoH. It will consider,
among other things, the challenge of delivering more accessible
and convenient care
and offering services in the most appropriate settings. |
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