| DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
News Release (2007/0203) issued by The Government News Network on 20 July 2007
The Department of Health today announced the areas of responsibility for its ministerial team. Alan Johnson is Secretary of State for Health, Ben Bradshaw is Minister of State for Health Services, Ann Keen is Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Health Services, Dawn Primarolo is Minister of State for Public Health, and Ivan Lewis is Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Care Services. Lord Ara Darzi is a Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, and will be conducting the NHS Next Stage review.
The full list of ministerial responsibilities at the Department of Health is as follows:
Secretary of State - Alan Johnson MP
NHS and social care delivery and system reforms; finance and resources; strategic communications
Minister of State for Health Services - Ben Bradshaw MP
Finance including: Spending Review; Resource allocation and Financial policy; NHS Financial management; NHS Estates, Capital, Private Finance Initiatives (PFI) & Local Improvement Finance Trusts (LIFT); NHS Performance management; NHS efficiency
Policy & Strategy including provider policy, demand side reform, Payment By Results (PbR) policy & system architecture regulation
18 week patient pathway
System management & regulation and Professional regulation including the 3rd session Bill
Workforce Capacity
Commissioning capabilities & programmes
Commercial policy, solutions and procurement
Connecting for Health / NHS IT
Urgent Care & emergency care
Primary care
South West Strategic Health Authority (SHA)
London SHA Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Health Services - Ann Keen MP
Healthcare quality
Patient Safety including Cleaner Hospitals / Healthcare Associated Infections (HCAI)
National clinical directors and programmes including: Cancer services; Cardiac services; Stroke services; Diabetes; Renal services
Dentistry and fluoridation
Partnership, experience & involvement
Optical
Chronic Diseases and long term conditions (including neurological)
Workforce including: Employment models and contracts; Education & careers; Pay; Nursing policy / Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) people strategy
Reconfigurations
Children's health services and maternity
Yorkshire & the Humber SHA
North East SHA
North West SHA Minister of State for Public Health - Dawn Primarolo MP
Public health including Regional Public Health Groups (RPHGs), WHO and Children's public health
Health improvement national programmes including: tobacco & smoking, alcohol, diet & nutrition, physical activity, drugs & drug treatment, obesity, sexual health, accident prevention, abortion, rural health, and Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT).
Health Inequalities
Fertility, including IVF, Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) and draft Bill, Regulatory Authority for Tissue and Embryos (RATE)
Food Standards Agency
Health protection including: Emergency preparedness; Scientific development; Pandemic flu; Immunisation; International health
International & EU business
Research and Development (R&D): National programme, R&D workforce, systems, Infrastructure, Innovation & Industry relations
Medicines & Pharmaceuticals industry including Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA)
National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE)
Departmental Management
West Midlands SHA
South East Coast SHA Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Care Services - Ivan Lewis MP
Social care, local government & care partnerships, including: policy & innovation; finance; strategy; workforce; inspection; Partnering & alliances; Regional presence; Older people; Learning / physical disabilities; Disabled children
DH's relationship with local government
Mental health including Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS)
Prison/offender health
Allied health professionals
Third sector including section 64 and social enterprise
Carers
Dignity & respect
Sustainable development
Equality & Human Rights
End of life care
Audiology
East of England SHA
South Central SHA
East Midlands SHA Parliamentary Under Secretary of State - Lord Ara Darzi
NHS Next Stage Review - Terms of Reference as announced
Lords business is being covered by a Lords Whip Biographies of health ministers: Alan Johnson joined the Department of Health in June 2007. He is MP for Kingston Upon Hull West and Hessle.
Alan Johnson has had a long career as a Government minister. His previous roles were:
* Secretary of State for Education and Skills
* Secretary of State at the Department of Trade and Industry
* Secretary of State at the Department of Work and Pensions
* Minister of State for Lifelong Learning, Further and Higher Education
* Minister of State for Employment Relations and Regions (DTI)
* Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Competitiveness (DTI)
Alan Johnson was born in 1950 and was educated at Sloane Grammar School, Chelsea. He became a postman in 1968, and joined the Union of Communication Workers at the same time.
He held a number of posts representing employees from 1976 and was elected to the National Executive Council in 1981.
He became General Secretary in 1992 and Joint General Secretary of the Communications Workers' Union (CWU) from 1995 to 1997.
He was a Member of the General Council, TUC from 1994 to 1995 and a member of the Labour Party NEC from 1995 to 1997.
Alan Johnson was a member of the Trade and Industry Select Committee until he was made Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Financial Secretary at the Treasury in December 1997, and then to the Paymaster General in January 1999.
Ben Bradshaw is MP for Exeter. He joined the Department of Health in June 2007. Before that, he was Minister for Local Environment, Marine and Animal Welfare at Defra, joining that Department initially as Nature Conservation and Fisheries Minister in June 2003.
He came to Defra from the Privy Council Office where he was appointed Parliamentary Secretary in May 2002. Previously he was Parliamentary Under-Secretary at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO).
He was elected as MP for Exeter on 1 May 1997. Before his election he worked as a journalist, training on the Express & Echo in Exeter before working for BBC Radio Devon and going on to be the BBC's Berlin correspondent.
Ann Keen is MP for Brentford and Isleworth. She joined the Department of Health in June 2007.
Prior to this, she was Parliamentary Private Secretary to Gordon Brown at the Treasury, and Parliamentary Private Secretary for Frank Dobson at the Department of Health.
Ann has a background in nursing, both as a tutor nurse and as a district nurse.
She was the General Secretary of the Community and District Nursing Association (CDNA), and a member of the Select Committee for Health.
Dawn Primarolo is MP for Bristol South. She was appointed Minister of State for Public Health at the Department of Health in June 2007.
Prior to her appointment at the Department of Health, Dawn spent ten years at the Treasury; first as Financial Secretary (1997-1999) and subsequently as Paymaster General, responsible for oversight of taxation as a whole.
Prior to 1997, Dawn held two posts in Opposition, as front bench spokesperson on health (1992-1994) and Treasury and economic affairs (1994-1997).
After a period as a member of Avon County Council, Dawn was elected as Member of Parliament for Bristol South in 1987.
Ivan Lewis is MP for Bury South. He was appointed as Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Care Services in May 2006.
He was previously Economic Secretary to the Treasury from May 2005, having been Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Skills and Vocational Education at the Department for Education and Skills since June 2003.
Before that he was Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Young People and Learning, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Adult Learning and Skills and then Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Young People and Adult Skills at the DfES.
Mr Lewis has been Member of Parliament for Bury South since 1997.
He worked in the voluntary sector from 1986 to 1997 for Outreach, Contact Community Care Group and as Chief Executive of the Manchester Jewish Federation.
Lord Ara Darzi was appointed Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department of Health on 29 June 2007.
He holds the Paul Hamlyn Chair of Surgery at Imperial College London and is an honorary consultant at St Mary's Hospital and The Royal Marsden.
Lord Darzi was knighted by the Queen for his service to medicine and surgery as a Knight Commander of the most excellent Order of the British Empire (KBE) in December 2002.
Lord Darzi was introduced to the House of Lords on 19 July 2007.
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