The NHS should be proactively using substantial resources across government to intervene and try to deliver positive improvements in people's standards of living.

I'm not going to go mystery shopping in the NHS because we have a million people every day using it and rating its facilities.

I was shadow health secretary for six years, and the beauty of being in opposition - if there is any beauty - is that you tend to get a pretty unvarnished view because no one bothers to paint the coal white before you turn up.

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