Tackling Health Inequalities

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 2:44 pm on 16 February 2006.

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Photo of Andrew Lansley Andrew Lansley Shadow Secretary of State for Health 2:44, 16 February 2006

I am grateful to the Minister for giving way, because this is precisely the issue on which I wanted to come in earlier. She is right to say that interventions must be rigorously examined in the same way as clinical procedures, which is one reason why the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence has taken over responsibility for such matters from the Health Development Agency. She will of course be able to quote the evidence that points directly to the need to appoint health trainers and to provide the life checks outlined in the recent White Paper.