Video: The Shadow Health Secretary on challenges for UK healthcare

Contributed by Economist Intelligence Unit - Published 13 January 2010

Andrew Lansley discusses patient choice and responsibility, access to information and the latest treatments, and why basic care should remain free.

In 2010, Britain goes to the polls to vote for its next government. Healthcare looms as a big election issue—a 2009 survey by the Economist Intelligence Unit found that it trailed only the economy and crime in terms of its importance to citizens. In November, Andrew Lansley, the shadow health…

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