Alan Milburn
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"Alan Milburn" is a British people/British Labour Party (UK)/Labour Party politician, who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Darlington (UK Parliament constituency)/Darlington from United Kingdom general election, 1992/1992 until United Kingdom general election, 2010/2010. He served for five years in the Cabinet (UK)/Cabinet, first as Chief Secretary to the Treasury from 1998 to 1999, and subsequently as Secretary of State for Health until 2003, when he resigned, citing a lack of balance with his family life, before briefly rejoining the Cabinet as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster in order to manage Labour's United Kingdom general election, 2005/2005 re-election campaign. In June 2009, he told his local party he would not be standing at the United Kingdom general election, 2010/2010 general election, saying: "Standing down as an MP will give me the chance to balance my work and my family life with the time to pursue challenges other than politics."

Alan Milburn is currently Chair of the Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission, as well as working for PricewaterhouseCoopers in the healthcare sector. In 2015 Milburn became Chancellor (education)/Chancellor of Lancaster University.

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She's hands-on, she's a doer.

Having betrayed the trust of his own patients, Harold Shipman should not be allowed to break the vital bond of trust that exists between family doctors and their patients.

Eight million people carry organ donor cards in Britain and they need to have full confidence that they will be treated with dignity and respect at all times.

I want to step up our drive to get more donors so that vital medical advances are not halted and people whose lives could so easily be saved with a transplant are not left to die unnecessarily, ... The overriding principle of all of this will be consent.

It cannot keep patients in the dark. It has to take patients into its confidence. It has to actively earn the trust of patients in life and it has to actively seek the consent of relatives in death.

The pain caused to the parents by this dreadful sequence of events is unforgivable. I am deeply sorry.

The days have gone where the NHS could act as a secret society. It cannot operate behind closed doors.