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Liz responds to latest report on Winterbourne View

27/11/2014

After the appalling scandal at Winterbourne View, Ministers promised to move people with learning disabilities out of Assessment and Treatment Units and into the community by 1st June 2014. Yet the latest report on Winterbourne View shows that 2,600 people are still stuck in these units far away from their […]

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Liz speaks in debate on care workers

06/11/2014

On Wednesday 5 November I spoke in a Westminster Hall debate on the situation faced by Britain’s homecare workers. Care staff do an incredibly important job looking after older and disabled people, but they are undervalued, underpaid and undertrained. Hundreds of thousands are on zero-hours contracts and don’t even get […]

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Liz speaks in Commons foreign affairs debate

12/09/2014

I spoke in a recent House of Commons debate on foreign affairs, which focused on events in Ukraine, Syria and Iraq, and the wider Middle East. I argued that the challenges we face today and the nature of global risk mean that we will only achieve security for British citizens if we seek to influence […]

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Labour stands firmly on the side of older workers and family carers

09/09/2014

On Monday 8 September I spoke at a meeting at TUC Congress on a new deal for older workers organised by Unions21. One of the biggest challenges facing many older employees is juggling work with caring for elderly or disabled relatives. There are more than 6 million unpaid family carers […]

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Liz speaks at NICE annual conference

15/05/2014

On Wednesday 14 May I gave a speech at the annual conference of the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence where I set out “Five lessons for reforming the NHS and social care”. These are that we the need to focus on changing services, not structures; how we pay […]

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Liz votes against hospital closure clause, and in favour of more support for family carers

13/03/2014

On Monday 11 and Tuesday 12 March I helped lead Labour’s scrutiny of the Care and Support Bill, which was having its final stages of debate in the House of Commons. We pushed votes on a number of really important issues including putting a new duty on the NHS to […]

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Liz speaks at an event on building stronger communities

13/03/2014

On 6th March I spoke at an event on the importance of supporting families and building strong relationships in communities at the Tavistock Centre in London. I talked about the opportunities and challenges of our ageing population and the need to do more to help unpaid family carers, who provide […]

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Improving cancer care

17/02/2014

In my role as a Shadow Health Minister, I spoke in a debate in the House of Commons on Thursday 13 February on cancer priorities for the NHS. With a rising number of cases of cancer, at some point it will touch all of our lives. We need to raise […]

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Liz speaks at launch of report on the future of public services

14/02/2014

On 12th February I helped launch a major new report from the Institute for Public Policy Research called “Many to many: How the relational state will transform public services”. This important paper sets out how public services should change so they can deal with the challenges of the future. You […]

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Liz speaks in a Parliamentary debate on the G8 Dementia Summit

29/11/2013

On 28th November I spoke in a Parliamentary debate about the G8 Dementia Summit, which will take place in London in a couple of weeks. I welcomed the fact that the G8 summit seeks to boost international efforts on clinical research, as it is essential we work towards developing effective […]

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Liz champions improvements in cancer care

31/10/2013

This week, I spoke in a Parliamentary debate about the experience of cancer patients. How patients and their families are treated by NHS staff is absolutely crucial at such a frightening time in their life. A good experience not only makes people feel supported and respected but can also improve […]

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Liz speaks at Shared Lives conference

23/10/2013

On Wednesday 23 October, I gave a speech at a conference organised by Shared Lives Plus – the UK network for family based and small scale ways of supporting adults. I talked about the need for fundamental changes in our care system to improve the lives of older and disabled […]