Andy Burnham Articles

Jeremy Hunt had one job since his appointment as secretary of state for health – to make sure the NHS was not an election issue. He almost succeeded. Despite the Tories’ recognition that the 2012 Health and Social Care Act was their biggest mistake it is only in the...

Whenever a politician utters the words ‘public health’ at the start of the day, you can guarantee that by the end of it 'nanny state' will be the words instead on everyone’s lips. Launching Labour’s public health offer this week, Andy Burnham outlined that challenge...

You may be forgiven, given recent media focus, for thinking that most healthcare takes place in hospitals. Or that it is the NHS that makes the greatest difference to our health. In reality the most significant impacts are made through really good quality public...

In a recent blog for Progress, Andy Burnham set out how, under Labour, the NHS would provide a single service for the whole person, meeting physical, mental and social needs together. Ed Miliband, in his Hugo Young lecture, committed Labour to a radical reshaping of...