“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 […]
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Yesterday’s Press Releases in review: 1 May 2017
It may have been a Bank Holiday, but the Press Team never rest. Here are some of the releases they sent out yesterday that aren’t covered elsewhere in our pages; Farron: FAZ report on May’s Juncker dinner show this Govt has no clue on Brexit According to damning reports in the German press on Theresa […]
Yesterday’s Press Releases in review: 1 May 2017
It may have been a Bank Holiday, but the Press Team never rest. Here are some of the releases they sent out yesterday that aren’t covered elsewhere in our pages; Farron: FAZ report on May’s Juncker dinner show this Govt has no clue on Brexit According to damning reports in the German press on Theresa […]
Farron attacks Government plans to make patients pay upfront for NHS treatment
Don’t make scapegoats out of foreigners for the crisis facing the NHS. That’s Tim Farron’s message to Jeremy Hunt as the Government says it is going to get hospitals to check upfront whether people are eligible for free NHS treatment and charge them before treatment Because NHS staff don’t have enough to do already. Tim […]
Farron attacks Government plans to make patients pay upfront for NHS treatment
Don’t make scapegoats out of foreigners for the crisis facing the NHS. That’s Tim Farron’s message to Jeremy Hunt as the Government says it is going to get hospitals to check upfront whether people are eligible for free NHS treatment and charge them before treatment Because NHS staff don’t have enough to do already. Tim […]
Farron attacks Government plans to make patients show ID at hospitals
Don’t make scapegoats out of foreigners for the crisis facing the NHS. That’s Tim Farron’s message to Jeremy Hunt as the Government says it is going to get hospitals to check upfront whether people are eligible for free NHS treatment. Because NHS staff don’t have enough to do already. Tim said: We all want to […]
Lib Dem parliamentarians mark #timetotalk day
Today has been Time to Talk day, Time for Change’s annual initiative to get more people to talk about mental health. It’s something we’ve done to great effect over the last couple of years. You can read the many moving and personal articles our readers have written here. One Liberal Democrat parliamentarian who was definitely […]
World Mental Health Day: Farron and Lamb’s contributions
Both Tim Farron and Norman Lamb have taken note that today is World Mental Health Day. As someone who has had lifelong experience of Anxiety and Depression in varying degrees of intensity,I appreciate the way in which they and Nick Clegg before them fought to get this issue to the forefront. It also greatly aggrieves […]
Opinion: We made Mental Health an issue – now we must lead the fight to make it possible
Having worked as a frontline mental health social worker for the past 15 years, there was no-one prouder than I was to see Nick Clegg and Norman Lamb push mental health care (and its place within the NHS) up the political agenda . There is no doubt that without the determination of our gutsy Party, […]