Results 1-16 of 16 for smoking speaker:Richard Taylor

[Hugh Bayley in the Chair] — Health Inequalities (12 Nov 2009)

Richard Taylor: .... I remember that on one of our visits to the States we met a physician in a hypertension clinic who was bemoaning the fact that he did not have the time to instruct his patients about their smoking and their obesity. We heard from ASH—Action on Smoking and Health—that only half of UK chest specialists have direct access to a stop-smoking counsellor, and we heard that there is...

[Hugh Bayley in the Chair] — Health Inequalities (12 Nov 2009)

Richard Taylor: ...who really need them. I had a briefing from the Royal College of Physicians for this debate. It desperately wants movement on a range of issues, including a reduction in obesity, the prevention of smoking and a reduction in alcohol consumption. Many of its examples of what is needed to promote healthy lifestyles for children are covered by PSHE and by what is provided by the children's...

Written Answers — Health: National No Smoking Day (13 Oct 2009)

Richard Taylor: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what plans his Department has to fund National No Smoking Day in 2010; and if he will make a statement.

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

Richard Taylor: ...not realise that transplant patients are not exempted from prescription charges. Such an exemption is essential given that they have to take anti-rejection drugs. A lot has already been said about smoking and the bits in the Bill relating to tobacco. As many Members have observed, as MPs we wear two hats. We are concerned about small businesses and corner shops, but we have a tremendous...

NHS Resources (18 Mar 2009)

Richard Taylor: ..., could be cut down. Nurse specialists will not necessarily choose the cheapest appliance, but in the long term, the cheapest is probably not the best. The Health Committee has done a lot of work on the issue of smoking and in the recent "Health Inequalities" report we point out that smuggled cigarettes and hand-rolled tobacco are the smoking materials of quite a high proportion of 16 to...

Opposition Day — [15th Allotted Day]: NHS (60th Anniversary) (24 Jun 2008) has video

Richard Taylor: ...treatment. We have come a vast distance with the treatment of heart attacks, with the immediate reboring of the arteries when necessary. We know how to prevent heart attacks, at least by attacking smoking, diet and high blood pressure and by using the statins. Now, the "British National Formulary" is the most prized document that any doctor carries with him, because if doctors use it well...

Bill Presented: Topical Debate — Preventive Health Services (10 Jan 2008) has video

Richard Taylor: ...not want us to lose sight of the well-established preventive techniques that are essential because we are rushing to screening, which may not be so evidence-based. I do not need to mention stopping smoking because obviously the effect of not smoking in public places is already showing benefits in the reduction in heart attacks. That is absolutely incredible. Tackling obesity, as the hon....

Health Care Prioritisation (3 Dec 2007)

Richard Taylor: ...veins? Should we provide travel immunisation or, more controversially, gender change operations, vasectomy reversal or surgery for obesity? What about surgery for some conditions if the patient continues to smoke or drink? That is just the start of a list. How should we take it on? Hospital Doctor, one of these widely circulated free newspapers for hospital doctors, recently reported on a...

Oral Answers to Questions — Health: Smoking Ban (26 Jun 2007)

Richard Taylor: I am sure that the Secretary of State is aware of recent reports from Italy that the occurrence of heart attacks has dropped significantly since its ban on smoking in public places. Does she agree that that would be an excellent way of publicising the benefits of the ban in this country?

Orders of the Day: Health and Education (16 Nov 2006)

Richard Taylor: ...on. Such resource management initiatives should be nationwide, and subject to public debate. Should we be paying under the NHS for tattoo removal, for treatment for male pattern frontal baldness, or for anti-smoking pills? The Government have made a start by producing an invaluable document, "NHS Better Care, Better Value Indicators", which goes through a range of procedures comparing the...

Orders of the Day — Health Bill: New Clause 5 — Smoke-free premises: exemptions (14 Feb 2006)

Richard Taylor: ...that narrows the coronary arteries and leads relentlessly to heart attacks, usually in later life but often in relative youth. I think everyone knows that the risk factors we recognise are smoking, diabetes, a poor family history and hypertension; but we all know people in none of those categories who, out of the blue, have dropped dead of a heart attack, or have had a severe heart attack....

Orders of the Day — Health Bill: New Clause 5 — Smoke-free premises: exemptions (14 Feb 2006)

Richard Taylor: ..." conference, the head of Glasgow university's centre for oncology was asked what his single greatest wish was in respect of cancer prevention, he said: "The key long-term priority is to limit smoking—everything else is lip service." Professor Dame Carol Black, the president of the Royal College of Physicians, told the Health Committee: "There is nothing that this government could do...

Sexual Health (HIV/AIDS) (9 Feb 2006)

Richard Taylor: ...and thus there was a chance of their spreading the infection even further. The 1987 AIDS campaign has been mentioned. There was the famous advertisement with the slogan "Don't die of ignorance". The phrase used about smoking was that it can "seriously damage your health". The current phrase for AIDS publications for the people should be something such as "Delaying your visit to the GUM...

Orders of the Day — Health Bill (29 Nov 2005)

Richard Taylor: ...(Frank Dobson), for Rother Valley (Mr. Barron) and for North-West Hampshire (Sir George Young), and other right hon. and hon. Members. We must face up to the fact that the reason for a ban on smoking in public places is to protect the health of all workers. All workers have equal rights to a healthy environment. That is the answer to Ministers who claim that, because we are protecting 99...

Coronary Heart Disease (9 Jun 2005)

Richard Taylor: ...must be in place when someone who has had a heart attack is discharged. We must make sure that they do not slip through without being put on an exercise programme, a programme to help them stop smoking or a weight-loss programme. The second issue emphasised in the present chapter is, of course, sudden cardiac death. We must not forget that most cases occur in people suffering from coronary...

Public Health (13 Dec 2001)

Dr Richard Taylor: ...a little more detail about that and how it is envisaged. I must mention sport, because it was one of the key points to which Liam Donaldson referred when summarising public health. They were; do not smoke, eat a balanced diet, keep active, manage stress, moderate alcohol, cover up in the sun, have safer sex, keep cancer screening appointments, read the highway code, and learn first aid....