Embed from Getty Images Last week a study highlighted that almost a million EU workers could leave the UK after Brexit simply because they “feel less welcome and valued” in the country and in their jobs. The impact that is going to have on our health service and the wider economy is severe. Today, it […]
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The Press Pack: A round-up of Lib Dem media comments – 22 August 2017
Here’s a roundup of media comments made by Lib Dem parliamentarians and spokespeople today. GP numbers Norman Lamb slammed the Government for failing to deliver more GPs: The government’s promise to recruit 5,000 more GPs by 2020 lies in tatters, with fewer GPs now than when this pledge was first made. “The pitiful increase we have seen […]
The Press Pack: A round-up of Lib Dem media comments – 22 August 2017
Here’s a roundup of media comments made by Lib Dem parliamentarians and spokespeople today. GP numbers Norman Lamb slammed the Government for failing to deliver more GPs: The government’s promise to recruit 5,000 more GPs by 2020 lies in tatters, with fewer GPs now than when this pledge was first made. “The pitiful increase we have seen […]
Notes from a new councillor: How to change things
I am frustrated about the bureaucracy I recently encountered as a County Councillor. Oxfordshire Mind, which provides many valuable mental health services throughout the county, has a new initiative to promote mental health awareness throughout Oxfordshire. The question I submitted to the Oxfordshire County Council Cabinet Member for Public Health was: Oxfordshire Mind is seeking […]
Notes from a new councillor: How to change things
I am frustrated about the bureaucracy I recently encountered as a County Councillor. Oxfordshire Mind, which provides many valuable mental health services throughout the county, has a new initiative to promote mental health awareness throughout Oxfordshire. The question I submitted to the Oxfordshire County Council Cabinet Member for Public Health was: Oxfordshire Mind is seeking […]
Mental Health deaths must not be neglected
This October, I will have been associated with the Liberals and the Liberal Democrats for some 45 years. In 1972 I joined the Liberal Students at Manchester University Medical School where my best subjects were Psychology and Psychiatry so it is unsurprising, perhaps, that I have not only pursued the interests of the NHS as […]
Mental Health deaths must not be neglected
This October, I will have been associated with the Liberals and the Liberal Democrats for some 45 years. In 1972 I joined the Liberal Students at Manchester University Medical School where my best subjects were Psychology and Psychiatry so it is unsurprising, perhaps, that I have not only pursued the interests of the NHS as […]
LibLink: Paddy Ashdown: Tories’ Royal Marine cut plays fast and loose with UK defence
It makes sense that Paddy should write for the Plymouth Herald on defence given the city’s strategic importance. He took the Government to task for cutting the Marines – about which he knows more than most people: For more than three centuries – from Gibraltar and Trafalgar to Normandy and Afghanistan – the Royal Marines […]
LibLink: Paddy Ashdown: Tories’ Royal Marine cut plays fast and loose with UK defence
It makes sense that Paddy should write for the Plymouth Herald on defence given the city’s strategic importance. He took the Government to task for cutting the Marines – about which he knows more than most people: For more than three centuries – from Gibraltar and Trafalgar to Normandy and Afghanistan – the Royal Marines […]
WATCH: Tim Farron say he’ll reinstate student nurses’ bursaries, give nurses a pay rise and invest in NHS
“I will not have it.” said Tim, saying that the Tories treat nurses like dirt. He was talking to the Royal College of Nursing conference. Watch this clip here: He told them: The Government’s decision to abandon bursaries for nursing students was clearly wrong. The evidence has shown a drastic fall in the number of […]