I need your help! I will soon be driving an ambulance to deliver vital, life-saving aid to Ukraine.
https://icmda.net/get-involved/relief-projects/convoy/parliament/
Over the Easter recess, I'll be joining a group of MPs and MSPs to drive ambulances to deliver vital, life-saving aid to Ukraine.
We're partnering with the International Christian Medical and Dental Association (ICMDA), Mighty Convoy, and the Christian Medical Association of Ukraine (CMA).
So far, the charities have already raised over £1.3m and sent over 150 lorry loads and over 40 ambulances of medical supplies worth over £10 million to provide vital medical aid to Ukraine since February 2022.
As Russia continues to bomb civilians, towns, and infrastructure, it’s urgent that we act to help. We are raising funds to donate several ambulances filled with tonnes of donated medical aid and equipment to hospitals in Ukraine.
One second-hand ambulance costs £7,000 to purchase, service and drive to Ukraine. Support us at https://icmda.net/get-involved/relief-projects/convoy/parliament/
Avian Influenza has been detected in a sheep for the first time.
This case in Yorkshire is a world first, and has highlighted the ability of flu to jump between species.
I discussed what this means for human and animal health with Times Radio
Food security is a vital component of our national security.
International events have pushed national security right up the agenda.
Has there been an impact assessment on the shock removal of the Sustainable Farming Incentive on our food security?
Tech giants must be held accountable for the impact of their platforms.
Children need to have the skills to be able to engage critically, safely and responsibly with online content.
This is not about restricting freedom, it's about protecting young minds. It's about improving mental health of young people.
We've allowed the digital world to move faster than our policies and now we really must act to keep up because everyone agrees now that our children do deserve better than this.
From a sector that is so often silent, it's clear the financial pressure on small care providers is becoming insurmountable.
We can't fix the NHS unless we fix social care, and we can't fix social care unless you look after the carers.
Let us be absolutely clear: disease does not respect national borders.
If polio still exists anywhere, it is still our problem.
If antibiotic resistance is surging in one part of the world, it will reach our hospitals.
If a new pandemic emerges in a distant country, it will be on our doorstep faster than ever before.
When it comes to global health, "Nobody wins unless everybody wins."
These are the words of Bruce Springsteen, but they apply as much to public health as they do to any other struggle.
If we allow global health systems to weaken, if we turn our backs on international collaboration, we are not just failing others, we are failing ourselves.
The USA withdrawing funding from WHO is posing huge challenges to global health.
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. ðŸ¦
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.
Liberal Democrat MP for Wi******er & Veterinary Surgeon. Promoted by Wi******er Liberal Democrats at Unit E, Bar End Industrial Estate, Wi******er, SO23 9NR.
