Secretary of State for Health
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Secretary of State for Health is a UK cabinet position responsible for the Department of Health. It was created in 1988 by a demerger of the Department for Health and Social Security, and is a succesor to the role of Minister of Health.
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President of the Board of Health
- Benjamin Hall III (1853-?)
- Robert Lowe (1859-1864)
Minister of Health
- Christopher Addison (1919-1921)
- A. Mond (1921-1922)
- A. Griffith Boscawen (1922-1923)
- Neville Chamberlain (1923-1924)
- J. Wheatley (1924)
- Neville Chamberlain (1924-1929)
- Arthur Greenwood (1929-1931)
- Neville Chamberlain (1931)
- E. Hilton Young (1931-1935)
- Kingsley Wood (1935-1937)
- Nye Bevan (1945-1951)
- H. Crookshank (1951-1952)
- Enoch Powell (1962-1963)
- A. Barber (1963-1964)
- R. Crossman (1968-1970)
Secretary of State for Health and Social Security
- Keith Joseph (1970-1974)
- Barbara Castle (1974-1976)
- David Ennals (1976-1979)
- Patrick Jenkin (1979-1981)
- Norman Fowler (1981-1987)
- John Moore (1987-1988)
Secretary of State for Health
- Kenneth Clarke (1988-1990)
- William Waldegrave (1990-1992)
- Virginia Bottomley (1992-1995)
- Stephen Dorrell (1995-1997)
- Frank Dobson (1997-1999)
- Alan Milburn (1999-2003)
- John Reid (2003-)
References
- Adapted from the Wikipedia article, "Secretary_of_State_for_Health" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary_of_State_for_Health, used under the GNU Free Documentation License
