Liz responds to the House of Lords report “Ready for Ageing?”. To read more click here.
Liz calls on Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt to release information on children’s heart surgery services. To read more click here.
Liz responds to the Care Quality Commission’s Report on dementia care. To read more click here.
In her regular Leicester Mercury column, Liz talks about the importance of supporting children with special educational needs. To read more click here.
Liz speaks to ITV Central about her continued fight to keep the children’s heart unit at Glenfield Hospital. To read more click here.
On Wednesday 6th March I spoke from the Opposition Front Bench in a Parliamentary debate about homecare workers. Homecare workers do a vital job – they care for over a million of some of the most vulnerable people in our society. They enable older and disabled people to keep living […]
On 27th February I hosted a reception in Parliament to mark Rare Disease Day 2013. The event saw the launch of an important new report ‘Rare Disease care coordination: delivering value, improving services’. The report – and a number of really touching speeches from people suffering from rare diseases and […]
In her regular Leicester Mercury column, Liz talks about her support for New College’s bid to develop a Sports Village and the importance of sustaining the Olympic Legacy. To read more click here.
I’m determined to do everything I can to help local residents find work. That’s why I held a Jobs and Opportunities Fair on 14th February at New Parks Community Centre. More than twenty employers and training providers came along and more than 460 local residents attended. I will be […]
On Monday 11th February the Government finally set out their response to Andrew Dilnot’s Commission on funding long-term care. This includes introducing a £75,000 cap on the amount people will have to pay for social care during their lifetimes, starting in 2017. This would be a small step forward for […]
On Tuesday 12th February I gave a speech at a conference hosted by Reform on “Building the new NHS”, in which I spoke about ensuring patients and the public are at the heart of NHS and social care services. You can read my speech here: Liz Kendall MP’s speech […]
The average person in social care will not benefit from the Government’s plan to raise the cap on care home costs to £75,000, Labour has warned. You can read Liz’s comments about this in the Guardian here.
