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New Government Speeches (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
Health Minister to sign Health Bilateral with the United Kingdom 7 July 2008 Health Minister, Dr Manto Tshabalala-Msimang will on Tuesday, 8 July 2008 sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the government of the United Kingdom (UK) (represented by its Health Minister, Dawn Primarolo) regarding health issues between the two countries. Amongst other provisions, the MoU enables clinical staff from...
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Blogzilla (Free subscription) | 29/06/2008
"Last week, the Poynter review on the loss of 25 million records from HM Revenue & Customs was published. The culprits — Gordon Brown, Dawn Primarolo MP and David Varney, the former head of the HRMC — have all moved on to other jobs, in Varney's case to the Transformational Government project that will oversee the merger of all government databases in a monstrous implement of surveillance. Forget privacy,...
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Mulier Fortis (Free subscription) | 21/06/2008
Surprise, surprise... the number of abortions is higher than ever. And the number of under-16s having abortions is higher than ever too. So what is the response of the British government? Hmmmn. Let's see... Health Minister Dawn Primarolo said, "Contraception plays a vital role in preventing teenage pregnancy and earlier this year I announced a further investment of £26.8m to improve women's access...
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Black Triangle (Free subscription) | 18/06/2008
The Daily Mail influenza vaccine kills people story has an interesting background. Looking at Hansard, it is apparent that the data the story is based on came from a written answer to a question posed by Sandra Gidley MP (Liberal Democrat). The question and answer by Dawn Primarolo are here: To ask the Secretary of State [...]
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 09/06/2008
Every town in England has the opportunity to bid for up to £5 million to make their inhabitants more healthy and active, Health Minister, Dawn Primarolo announced. As part of a £30 million Healthy Communities Challenge Fund, towns will be invited to come up with innovative new ways to improve the health of their inhabitants.
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The Croydonian (Free subscription) | 06/06/2008
From Hansard : Sandra Gidley: To ask the Minister for the Olympics pursuant to the Answer of 22 April 2008, Official Report , column 1889W, on the Olympic Games 2012, what provision will be made to reduce any potential spread of sexually transmitted infections". Dawn Primarolo: I have been asked to reply. The national health service in London is currently working with both the London Organising Committee...
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 28/05/2008
Seven new partnerships between NHS organisations and leading universities will receive a total of £64 million to conduct research and improve care in major conditions including heart disease, stroke, diabetes and obesity, Public Health Minister, Dawn Primarolo announced today.
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 26/05/2008
A new research programme which will help the Government to continue to improve public health and reduce health inequalities was launched by Public Health Minister Dawn Primarolo. The Public Health Research (PHR) Programme is being established by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) and will evaluate a wide range of public health interventions.
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rhetorically speaking.. (Free subscription) | 22/05/2008
Along with various others, I picked up on Dawn Primarolo's polite-enough-to-cut-glass assertion that Nadine Dorries was a liar during Tuesday's liveblog . At the time Dorries expressed surprised that she might have said anything that wasn't entirely accurate (to the sound of me laughing bitterly at the TV) so Unity has helpfully taken on the full job of dissecting, line by line, Dorries' very public...
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Bloggerheads (Free subscription) | 21/05/2008
Dawn Primarolo: "The hon. Lady has asserted many things to be facts that are not." Mrs. Dorries: "If the Minister feels that I have said anything tonight - cited any statistic or piece of information - that is not factual,...
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rhetorically speaking.. (Free subscription) | 20/05/2008
If you're not following the rambling liveblog below, Dawn Primarolo pretty much just called Nadine Dorries a liar. She had to use polite parliamentary language, but just for a second it looked like live-action blogging. Tee hee.
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bigjohn (Free subscription) | 20/05/2008
I see that the government is pissing another £10 million up the wall in an attempt to get us all to drink less alcohol. Dawn Primarolo, the Public Health Minister, said: “Glass sizes have grown larger and the strength of many wines and beers has increased, so it's no wonder some of us have lost track [...]
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Bristol Evening Post (Free subscription) | 20/05/2008
Dawn Primarolo has launched a £6 million campaign to make people aware of just how much alcohol they are drinking.
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ProWomanProLife (Free subscription) | 19/05/2008
The BBC reporter here asks Dawn Primarolo, a Labour MP and health minister why animal-human hybrids are wrong. (Watch the video link.) She does not answer that, but rather talks moves fluidly into a discussion of embryonic research, saying This is a decision about where life begins Well, yes, it is. And now it's 14 days. Why? Because she said so. She [...]
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Mikey's Tent of Reality (Free subscription) | 19/05/2008
Public Health Minister Dawn Primarolo has been on the television and radio quite a bit over the past day or two, talking about hybrid embryo science . Well, I say she has been doing this, but listening to her voice and her patronising tone, I tend to think: " can't the government get anybody better to present their case than this whiny social science graduate? " Dawn of course was in the Treasury...
