Greg Beales
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Greg Beales is a former Senior Advisor for Health and Social Care issues to the British Prime Minister
Prime minister
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 Gordon Brown
Gordon Brown
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 and was member of the Downing Street
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 Policy Directorate. He took up his post in June 2007 at the same time as Gordon Brown became Prime Minister. Beales had previously worked for former Prime Minister Tony Blair
Tony Blair
Anthony Charles Lynton Blair is a former British Labour Party politician who served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2 May 1997 to 27 June 2007. He was the Member of Parliament for Sedgefield from 1983 to 2007 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007...

 in the Prime Minister's Delivery Unit. Greg Beales now is an advisor to Ed Miliband
Ed Miliband
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Prior to joining Government, Greg Beales worked in the private and voluntary sectors. He is known to be a champion of Foundation Trusts and his appointment was widely seen as an indication that the Gordon Brown government intended to continue the process of NHS
National Health Service
The National Health Service is the shared name of three of the four publicly funded healthcare systems in the United Kingdom. They provide a comprehensive range of health services, the vast majority of which are free at the point of use to residents of the United Kingdom...

 reform to which it had been committed since 2001. In his previous work, Beales has been a strong advocate for the NHS system of funding but has argued that reform is necessary to give more control to patients to allow them to become experts in managing their own care.

He has also been a strong advocate of a greater focus on prevention
Preventive medicine
Preventive medicine or preventive care refers to measures taken to prevent diseases, rather than curing them or treating their symptoms...

 across the public services
Public services
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, arguing that to meet modern challenges, public services needed to co-produce outcomes with a public more responsible for its own behaviour and actions. Beales has been closely associated with the development of Healthy Living Centres and is widely seen to favour a bigger role for social enterprise and cooperative providers in the provision of public services.

Greg Beales was listed in London's 1000 most influential people'.
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