Norman Lamb and his son Archie opened up on ITV News about Archie’s depression and thoughts of suicide. In a very moving interview with Mark Austin they say what it is like to live with mental illness. Archie explains: It just takes over your head. You can’t think of anything else. When you get into depression […]
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Lamb on junior doctors’ vote in favour of strike action: Government has “woefully mismanaged” negotiation
Today, it was announced that junior doctors had voted in favour of strike action by an overwhelming majority. 98% were in favour of action which will begin on 1st December. Norman Lamb has condemned the Government’s handling of the situation and told Jeremy Hunt to do everything he could to avert the strike: It’s a […]
Lamb and Williams warn on care cap delay
View image | gettyimages.com As Care Minister, Norman Lamb (and his Liberal Democrat predecessor) were pivotal in ensuring that the cap for care costs was introduced. The Conservatives have now delayed its implementation by 4 long years. Norman described this as an “outrageous betrayal of people at their most weak and most frail. He said: […]
Lamb and Williams warn on care cap delay
View image | gettyimages.com As Care Minister, Norman Lamb (and his Liberal Democrat predecessor) were pivotal in ensuring that the cap for care costs was introduced. The Conservatives have now delayed its implementation by 4 long years. Norman described this as an “outrageous betrayal of people at their most weak and most frail. He said: […]
Lamb and Williams warn on care cap delay
View image | gettyimages.com As Care Minister, Norman Lamb (and his Liberal Democrat predecessor) were pivotal in ensuring that the cap for care costs was introduced. The Conservatives have now delayed its implementation by 4 long years. Norman described this as an “outrageous betrayal of people at their most weak and most frail. He said: […]
LibLink: Norman Lamb on a mission
View image | gettyimages.com Over on Huffington Post, Norman Lamb has written about his campaign to end discrimination against mental health. The Liberal Democrats are on a mission to end the discrimination against mental health. From Paul Burstow who changed the law to give mental health equality with physical health to my work ensuring […]
P-37: What are the Liberal Democrats talking about today? Mental Health and the manifesto for the mind
We’ll be having daily deeper and more detailed look at the party’s main theme. Today it’s mental health. Nick Clegg and Norman Lamb this morning said that Liberal Democrats (or should that be Democats?) would invest £3.5 billion in mental health over the next Parliament. Part of our record in Government includes securing £150 million […]
Clegg’s letter to Burnham: “you may have inadvertently misled” Commons on Labour’s NHS privatisation record
Nick Clegg fielded Prime Minister’s Questions today, during which he noted that Labour’s shadow health secretary Andy Burnham is “the only man in England who has ever privatised an NHS hospital”. Mr Burham complained that Nick had misled the House of Commons over the issue of Hichingbrooke Hospital, accusing him of “sheer inaccuracy”. The Lib […]
Liz Barker leads first ever Lords debate on Lesbian, bisexual and transgender women’s health
Last Wednesday, Baroness Liz Barker, who made one of the most fantastic speeches of the entire debate on same sex marriage, led the first ever debate on health services for lesbians and bisexual and transgender women. The ignorance and even ridicule LBT women have faced from health professionals in the accounts Liz and others shared […]