Liz helps parents of Queensmead Academy students campaign against dangerous parking arrangements outside the school. To read more, please click here.
NHS figures show drastic cuts to the number of district nurses in England. Almost 1 in 5 district nurses have been cut since May 2010. It costs the NHS £6million a month as patients are delayed from leaving hospital due to a lack of support in the community. You can read […]
I recently visited the Whittington Hospital in London to see the brilliant work they are doing to improve care for patients with respiratory problems like Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD). COPD causes frightening breathlessness and disability, and smoking is its biggest cause. So an essential part of the hospital’s […]
On 10th January I took part in the best debate I’ve attended since becoming a Member of Parliament, about the need to improve care for people with dementia. The debate was passionate and constructive. MPs from all the different political parties talked about the problems faced by people with dementia […]
In the past few months you might have read some worrying media reports about the Liverpool Care Pathway – a programme of care designed to help people in the last days and hours of their lives. On 8th January I spoke from the Opposition Front Bench in a Parliamentary debate […]
Following my recent letter to the independent panel reviewing the decision to move Glenfield’s children’s heart surgery unit, I organised a meeting in Parliament with a cross-party group of East Midlands MPs and Peers and the Panel’s chairman Lord Bernard Ribeiro. I was very pleased that Leicester’s two other MPs […]
On Sunday 16th December I took part in the East Midlands edition of the BBC Sunday Politics show. The issues we discussed included the potential closure of children’s heart surgery unit at Glenfield Hospital, food poverty and PFI with a particular focus on Kings Mill hospital. You can watch […]
You might have heard about the scandalous treatment of people with leaning disabilities at Winterbourne View hospital. Following a review into this awful case, on 10th December the Government made a statement on the future of the care for people with learning disabilities. I responded to the announcements from the opposition […]
Clinical networks are groups of doctors, nurses and other specialists that help improve patient care. Over the last 10 years these networks have played a crucial role in increasing survival rates from cancer, heart disease and stroke – Britain’s biggest killers. Ministers have repeatedly promised to protect the funding for […]
Liz comments to the Daily Mirror about her research that shows cuts to networks which oversee the care of cancer, heart and stroke patients in the NHS. To read more click here.
Liz speaks to the BBC about research she conducted which shows that clinical networks which oversee the care of cancer, heart and stroke patients in the NHS have had their budgets and staff cut. To read more click here.
In her regular Leicester Mercury column, Liz talks about the autumn statement. To read more click here.
