5 months ago the Care Quality Commission reported that 2/3 of maternity units in England were unsafe.
Years of unsafe staffing levels have resulted in the NHS paying an astonishing £1.15 billion a year in compensation due to avoidable injuries caused during childbirth and sometimes deaths.
The previous Conservative government allowed maternity services to deteriorate to the point where many consider it to be a public health crisis.
Will the Prime Minister commit to improving maternity care and women's health services as a top priority to our maternity unit in Winchester and those around the rest of the country are the safest places in the world for women to give birth?
Conservative MPs stood on the promise of delivering new hospitals, including one for
Hampshire, and it turned out there was never any funding and it was just false promises to try and get votes.
Delaying the New Hospital Programme will only mean more treatments cancelled and more money wasted on plugging holes in hospital buildings that are no longer fit for purpose.
Given that the New Hospital Programme is delayed, this means it is more urgent than ever to increase capacity by fixing social care, so that those who are well enough to leave hospital can be cared for in the community, thus freeing up beds immediately.
🦠 The Russian invasion of Ukraine has led to the emergence of bacteria that are strongly resistant to multiple antibiotics. 🦠
Just like Mr Putin, we know that these superbugs do not respect national borders.
Will the Prime Minister consider supporting the Ukrainian war effort by providing rapid diagnostic tests which can be used in the field and in civilian hospitals?
This would help diagnose and treat these resistant infections more quickly, but would also provide valuable surveillance data to help global public health and protect our NHS from these dangerous bacteria? 🧫
The Jay Inquiry has made 20 recommendations.
Will the government commit to implementing all the recommendations in full and at pace to help protect future victims?
We need to fund social care packages to help the NHS. So when people are well enough to be cared for at home, they can be discharged and free up beds for someone who needs it.
Winchester’s Hospital was forced to turn away new patients earlier this winter after running out of beds and now it's happened again!
Every year there's a winter crisis. We know winter comes every year, we know it will come next year.
We need to winterproof the NHS to ensure this doesn't keep happening.
Beds at Winchester Hospital are full and attendance at the emergency department is extremely high, which means there is currently no capacity to admit further patients needing care.
We've been warning about the risks faced by our health services over winter time for years and crises like this are still happening.
We need adequate provision of social care packages so that people can be discharged from hospitals and free up beds for critical patients when they're needed.
The government is insisting on taxing GPs, hospices and social care providers to fund its increase in NHS spending. This seems counter-productive to me.
Why not tax the big banks, tech giants and oil and gas industries instead?
My animal welfare Bill just made a huge step closer to becoming law!
I’d like to thank the Dogs Trust, RSPCA and the British Veterinary Association for supporting this bill and campaigning on this issue for many years, and now Defra who are putting their support behind the Bill too. Also, to all the individual backers across the country who wrote to their MPs asking them to back the bill. I was delighted to see many MPs from across the political spectrum vote with me to move this Bill forward.
Pet mutilations, such as ear cropping, tail docking, and declawing, are still widespread in the UK despite such cruel procedures being illegal. Why? Import of animals that have already had these procedures is still legal. Not only does this create a market for mutilated animals in the UK leading to a flow of animals being transported to the UK under inhumane conditions, but it allows domestic abusers to claim animals were imported even if the procedures had been carried out locally.
The latest data shows that the number of non-commercial movements of pets rose from 100,000 in 2011 to over 320,000 in 2023 - and with it the risk of fraudulent activity. The best way to end the abuse is to shut down the import loophole. My Bill, which has now passed its 2nd reading, will introduce new legislation to do exactly that!
I'd like to pay tribute to Lord Prescott. It must have taken a great deal of courage, especially 15 years ago, for a former merchant seaman and boxer to talk about his eating disorder, from which we know men often suffer from in silence. This is a good day to acknowledge the impact that his openness has had on others to talk about their mental health.
