Quotes

Politicians come and go, but medicine goes on for ever.

Lord Horder

Category: Health Issues, Politicians (as a species)

Tags: Health Issues, Lord Horder, Policy, Politicians (as a species), Politics

What should be the glory of the profession is that a doctor should be able to meet his patients with no financial anxiety.

Aneurin Bevan 09/02/1947

Category: Health Issues

Tags: Aneurin Bevan, Health Issues, Policy

Let's make it clear: the Conservative Party has no plans for new NHS charges.

Margaret Thatcher 18/04/1979

Category: Health Issues

Tags: Health Issues, Margaret Thatcher, Policy

I exercise my right as a free citizen to spend my own money in my own way, so that I can go on the day, the time, to the doctor I choose and get out fast.

Margaret Thatcher 06/1987

On why she chooses to use private healthcare, causing a political storm during the General Election campaign

Category: Health Issues

Tags: Health Issues, Margaret Thatcher, Policy

The National Health Service is safe with us. The principle of adequate healthcare should be provided for all regardless of ability to pay must be the function of any arrangements for financing the NHS. We stand by that.

Margaret Thatcher 10/1982

Category: Health Issues

Tags: Health Issues, Margaret Thatcher, Policy

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The election was lost not in the three weeks of the campaign but in the three years which preceded it...in that period the Party itself acquired a highly unfavourable public image, based on disunity, extremism, crankiness and general unfitness to govern.

Denis Healey

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