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Jeremy Hunt has been reappointed secretary of state for health, while Earl Howe, the minister formerly responsible for pharmacy, has been moved to defence in the Prime Minister's Cabinet reshuffle.

Conservative former health minister Dr Dan Poulter has stepped down as a minister and been replaced by fellow Ipswich MP Ben Gummer. Alistair Burt replaced Liberal Democrat care minister Norman Lamb as minister of state in David Cameron's first all-Conservative government. Jane Ellison and George Freeman remain in place as junior health ministers.

Earl Howe had been responsible for primary care as under secretary of state for quality at the Department of Health since 2010. He had helped lead former health secretary Andrew Lansley's Health and Social Care Bill reforms, guiding the legislation through the Lords and was the only health minister to survive the subsequent 2012 reshuffle.