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New Member: Schedule 6 — Repeals and revocations (12 Oct 2009) has video

Andy Burnham: ...generations are less likely to suffer from tobacco-related disease. For many hon. Members, the central issue in the Bill has been deciding how best to protect our children from the dangers of smoking. We heard today passionate contributions, most recently from the Chair of the Select Committee on Health, my right hon. Friend the Member for Rother Valley (Mr. Barron), and from my right...

Bill Presented: Health Bill [ Lords] (8 Jun 2009) has video

Andy Burnham: ...never be my intention to make it harder for small retailers to survive; I do not think anybody would want that. Nevertheless, we have to act to counter the fact that many young people still take up smoking, and if we in this House can take measures to reduce that, we have a responsibility to consider them. It is my judgment that this can be done without causing the effect on small...

Bill Presented: Health Bill [ Lords] (8 Jun 2009) has video

Andy Burnham: .... I stand to be corrected, but what I read of the evidence over the weekend suggests to me that in both Iceland and Canada measures to restrict point of sale materials did have an effect on smoking prevalence among young people. In Iceland, the fall in smoking prevalence among 15 to 16-year-olds between 1999 and 2007 was most rapid in the period immediately following the display ban...

Bill Presented: Health Bill [ Lords] (8 Jun 2009) has video

Andy Burnham: ...Committee and find that proof exists for certain action, the House does not then find other excuses not to take such action. Like me, I do not think that he is comfortable about the prevalence of smoking among young people in our constituencies. I think that there is more we can do to cut the number of young people smoking, and if that can be done, the effects on their standard of health...

Bill Presented: Health Bill [ Lords] (8 Jun 2009) has video

Andy Burnham: ...Southwark and Bermondsey (Simon Hughes) said—for us to examine the evidence and put aside some of the vested interests. I will argue strongly that if we can take steps to reduce the level of smoking among young people, we should always do so. Smoking remains the leading cause of preventable death in this country. Although the number of people who smoke in England is at an all-time...

Bill Presented: Health Bill [ Lords] (8 Jun 2009) has video

Andy Burnham: ...and control exposure to it. At every point in that journey, the voices from the Opposition Benches have cried, "Nanny state!" Almost every time that a sensible measure has been proposed to tackle smoking, especially under-age smoking, we have heard those voices. If we had listened to them, we would not have reduced the proportion of people who smoke from 28 per cent. in 1997 to 21 per...

Bill Presented: Health Bill [ Lords] (8 Jun 2009) has video

Andy Burnham: ...a party political point— [ Interruption. ] I normally do, but not on this occasion. I remember the time of "The Health of the Nation" in the early 1990s, and progress was made in reducing smoking, but there was a real acceleration in 1997, with the introduction of smoking cessation courses and nicotine patches being made available to people. When tackling an issue of this magnitude,...

Written Answers — Health: NHS: Databases (12 Jun 2007)

Andy Burnham: ...Health Minimum Dataset (MHMDS) NHST Quarterly National Cancer Dataset Waiting times subset NHST Quarterly LDPR-P and PDPR-C Local Delivery Plans Return NHST Quarterly NHS Stop Smoking Services Quarterly Monitoring Return PCT, SHA Quarterly Mandatory Enhanced Surveillance System (MESS) renal surveillance voluntary data NHST Quarterly KC65 Colposcopy clinics,...

Written Answers — Health: Claim Awards (25 Jan 2007)

Andy Burnham: ...is in the table. The 10 largest settled liabilities under the Property Expenses Scheme as at 31 December 2006 Cause of the complaint Damages paid (£) Fire possibly caused by a patient smoking 358,377 Fire 468,437 Fire in/adjacent to A and E department 480,000 Fire 480,000 Fire—cause unknown 486,341 Refrigerator malfunction leading to ruined blood...

Written Answers — Health: Smokers: Waiting Lists (14 Dec 2006)

Andy Burnham: ...service capacity. The provision and availability of a particular surgical intervention should be dependent on the clinical need of the individual patient. An assessment of the benefits of stopping smoking ahead of planned surgery was published in May 2006 by the London Health Observatory, entitled "Stop before the Op: the short-term benefits of preoperative smoking cessation in London". It...

Written Answers — Health: Whipps Cross Hospital (14 Dec 2006)

Andy Burnham: ...through the quality and outcomes framework of the General Medical Services contact. This enables practices systematically to manage key risk factors such as blood pressure, cholesterol and smoking. I understand that the effectiveness of these steps the PCT has taken are assessed by the board and the professional executive committee, who receive reports at every meeting on the number of...

Written Answers — Health: "Choosing Health" (13 Dec 2006)

Andy Burnham: ...for pharmaceutical public health. However, there are many examples of pharmacy's valuable contribution, including through improving access to sexual health services, increasing uptake of stop smoking services and better services for substance misusers.