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| Incumbent: Alan Johnson MP Took office: 28 June 2007 |
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| Style: | The Right Honourable |
| Appointed by: | Gordon Brown as Prime Minister |
| First : | Sir Benjamin Hall |
| Formation: | (14 October 1854) |
| United Kingdom |
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Secretary of State for Health is a UK cabinet position responsible for the Department of Health. The current Secretary of State for Health is Alan Johnson, appointed on 28 June 2007 as part of Gordon Brown's first cabinet.
The first Boards of Health were created by Orders in Council dated 21 June, 14 November, and 21 November 1831. In 1848 a General Board of Health was created with the First Commissioner of Woods and Forests as its President. In 1854 this Board was reconstituted and the President appointed separately. However, the Board was abolished and its duties transferred the Privy Council by the Public Health Act 1858. From 1871 the Health powers were moved to the President of the Local Government Board.
The Ministry of Health was created in 1919 as a reconstruction of the Local Government Board. Local government functions were eventually transferred to the Minister of Housing and Local Government, leaving the Health Ministry in charge of Health proper.
From 1968 it was amalgamated with the Ministry of Social Security under the Secretary of State for Social Services, until a demerger of the Department of Health and Social Security on 25 July 1988.
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President of the Board of Health
- Sir Benjamin Hall (later Lord Llanover) (14 October 1854 - 13 August 1855)
- Hon. William Cowper (later Lord Mount-Temple) (13 August 1855 - 9 February 1857)
- William Monsell, 1st Baron Emly of Tervoe (9 February 1857 - 24 September 1857)
- Hon. William Cowper (24 September 1857 - 21 February 1858)
- Charles Adderley (8 March 1858 - 1 September 1858)
Minister of Health
- Christopher Addison (later the Viscount Addison) (24 June 1919 - 1 April 1921)
- Alfred Mond (1 April 1921 - 19 October 1922)
- Sir Arthur Griffith-Boscawen (24 October 1922 - 7 March 1923) (Defeated for election to the House of Commons)
- Neville Chamberlain (7 March 1923 - 27 August 1923)
- Sir William Joynson-Hicks (27 August 1923 - 22 January 1924)
- John Wheatley (22 January 1924 - 3 November 1924)
- Neville Chamberlain (6 November 1924 - 4 June 1929)
- Arthur Greenwood (7 June 1929 - 24 August 1931)
- Neville Chamberlain (25 August 1931 - 5 November 1931)
- Sir Edward Hilton Young (5 November 1931 - 7 June 1935)
- Kingsley Wood (7 June 1935 - 16 May 1938)
- Walter Elliot (16 May 1938 - 13 May 1940)
- Malcolm MacDonald (13 May 1940 - 8 February 1941)
- Ernest Brown (8 February 1941 - 11 November 1943)
- Henry Willink (11 November 1943 - 26 July 1945)
- Aneurin Bevan (3 August 1945 - 17 January 1951)
- Hilary Marquand (17 January 1951 - 26 October 1951)
- Harry Crookshank (30 October 1951 - 7 May 1952)
- Iain Macleod (7 May 1952 - 20 December 1955)
- Robin Turton (20 December 1955 - 16 January 1957)
- Dennis Vosper (16 January 1957 - 17 September 1957)
- Derek Walker-Smith (17 September 1957 - 27 July 1960)
- Enoch Powell (27 July 1960 - 20 October 1963)
- Anthony Barber (20 October 1963 - 16 October 1964)
- Kenneth Robinson (18 October 1964 - 1 November 1968)
Secretary of State for Social Services
- Richard Crossman (1 November 1968 - 19 June 1970)
- Sir Keith Joseph (20 June 1970 - 4 March 1974)
- Barbara Castle (5 March 1974 - 8 April 1976)
- David Ennals (8 April 1976 - 4 May 1979)
- Patrick Jenkin (5 May 1979 - 14 September 1981)
- Norman Fowler (14 September 1981 - 13 June 1987)
- John Moore (13 June 1987 - 25 July 1988)
Secretary of State for Health
- Kenneth Clarke (25 July 1988 - 2 November 1990)
- William Waldegrave (2 November 1990 - 10 April 1992)
- Virginia Bottomley (10 April 1992 - 5 July 1995)
- Stephen Dorrell (5 July 1995 - 2 May 1997)
- Frank Dobson (3 May 1997 - 11 October 1999)
- Alan Milburn (11 October 1999 - 13 June 2003) - resigned
- John Reid (13 June 2003 - 6 May 2005)
- Patricia Hewitt (6 May 2005 - 27 June 2007)
- Alan Johnson (28 June 2007 - )
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