Health minister Anne Milton speaks at Nightingale Breakfast

Anne Milton MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary for Public Health at the Department of Health, spoke at the Florence Nightingale School of Nursing & Midwifery’s Nightingale Breakfast series on Tuesday 29 March 2011.

Ms Milton’s speech, ‘Improving Health, Improving Nursing’, focused on how the relationship between health and nursing is entirely two-way. Rather than nurses being a means to an end of delivering good health, Ms Milton spoke about how, as a group, nurses and midwives inform the entire picture of healthcare in this country.

Ms Milton worked for the NHS for 25 years and has a wide range of experience within the NHS, including district nursing in hospital, working in research and supporting GPs and nurses working in palliative care. In November 2006, Anne was appointed Shadow Minister for Tourism in the Department of Culture, Media and Sport team. In July 2007, she was appointed as a Shadow Minister for Health.