Alan Johnson
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"Alan Arthur Johnson" is a British Labour Party (UK)/Labour Party politician who served as Home Secretary from June 2009 to May 2010. Before that, he filled a wide variety of Cabinet of the United Kingdom/cabinet positions in both the Blair ministry/Blair and Brown ministry/Brown Government of the United Kingdom/governments, including Secretary of State for Health/Health Secretary and Secretary of State for Education/Education Secretary. Until 20 January 2011 he was Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer. Johnson has been the Member of Parliament for Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle (UK Parliament constituency)/Hull West and Hessle since the United Kingdom general election, 1997/1997 general election.

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Rather than rest being the best remedy for back pain, for example, research now shows it can actually delay recovery and make things worse. Advising patients to stay active can help them get back to work and on with their life.

Often a patient will think they want a sicknote, when the best advice a critical friend can give might not meet their initial expectations.

The forthcoming White Paper on public health will recognize the beneficial role some work can have in helping people recover from illnesses or disease. And it will emphasize the damaging effects of being out of work - urging the NHS to see return to work as the norm.

For people who are able to work again, a job can be itself an important step in the road to recovery and rehabilitation.

The case raises important issues that affect the public's right to know and the government's ability to use the attorney-client privilege as a shield to deny access to documents that reflect its operations at the highest levels.

The spurt in world oil prices is totally unjustified as the oil producing nations are exploiting high growth rates in India and China.

Given the right support most people claiming incapacity benefits can be helped back to work, ... Now we've brought down unemployment to a 30-year low and have half a million vacancies in the economy there's no reason for all this talent and potential to go to waste.

The public has a vested interest in being sure that public employees are carrying out their duties in a professional way. In some of the cases, we received the entire file and then in others we didn't get anything. That has the appearance that there's a different standard for different types of employees.

We were thinking Wall Street would be flattish for the year, but we fortunately may have undershot.