The Secretary of State for Health, Patricia Hewitt has outlined the key objectives of her ministerial team, in a letter to the Prime Minister. The letter details the areas of responsibility each health minister has been given to deliver the next stage of health reforms over the next two years. Patricia Hewitt’s letter is written in response to Tony Blair’s May 2006 letter, which requested the Secretary of State to indentify the key challenges faced by the Department of Health, and to propose actions to tackle these challenges.
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