So, it didn’t take long for the Tories to apply the brakes to all the good work done on mental health by Norman Lamb and, before him, fellow Liberal Democrat Paul Burstow. The Independent talks exclusively to Norman about what’s happening now he’s not there to drive things forward. Norman Lamb, who served as the […]
LibLink: Nick Clegg: We’ve made progress on mental health but there’s still work to do
Nick Clegg has written about mental health in today’s Evening Standard column. One story illustrates different attitudes to physical and mental health: A few years ago, I met a man called Robert at a mental health trust in Liverpool. He was in his sixties, well-dressed and with a neatly trimmed moustache that gave him something […]
Joan Walmsley writes…Planning for a healthy future
Hooray for Sir Simon Stevens, Head of NHS England, for putting into practice what I was proposing at last year’s Party Conference! In my keynote speech I maintained that the NHS cannot tackle the country’s current and future health problems by itself and we need a “whole government” approach. The Department of Health must be […]
Joan Walmsley writes…Planning for a healthy future
Hooray for Sir Simon Stevens, Head of NHS England, for putting into practice what I was proposing at last year’s Party Conference! In my keynote speech I maintained that the NHS cannot tackle the country’s current and future health problems by itself and we need a “whole government” approach. The Department of Health must be […]
Joan Walmsley writes…Planning for a healthy future
Hooray for Sir Simon Stevens, Head of NHS England, for putting into practice what I was proposing at last year’s Party Conference! In my keynote speech I maintained that the NHS cannot tackle the country’s current and future health problems by itself and we need a “whole government” approach. The Department of Health must be […]
Norman Lamb: Junior doctors can’t all be dismissed as militants
Embed from Getty Images Junior doctors are to hold three more one-day strikes. The British Medical Association, which represents the doctors, has also announced that it is seeking a judicial review into the imposition of the new contract because the government failed to carry out an equalities impact study. Norman Lamb has added his […]
Norman Lamb: Junior doctors can’t all be dismissed as militants
Embed from Getty Images Junior doctors are to hold three more one-day strikes. The British Medical Association, which represents the doctors, has also announced that it is seeking a judicial review into the imposition of the new contract because the government failed to carry out an equalities impact study. Norman Lamb has added his […]
Norman Lamb: Junior doctors can’t all be dismissed as militants
Embed from Getty Images Junior doctors are to hold three more one-day strikes. The British Medical Association, which represents the doctors, has also announced that it is seeking a judicial review into the imposition of the new contract because the government failed to carry out an equalities impact study. Norman Lamb has added his […]
Crisis mental health care in the NHS must improve
I was struck by a blog in my Facebook timeline this morning. It was actually written a year ago today by Becca Plenderleith, who joined the Lib Dems in the wake of the election last year. She’s already contributed so much to the Party, writing for our Scottish members’ newsletter, making thoughtful and insightful contributions […]
Watch: Shirley Williams on retirement and how the government’s attitude to junior doctors could break NHS
On Thursday, her last day in the House of Lords before her retirement, Shirley Williams spent 20 minutes talking to Victoria Derbyshire. You can watch the conversation, which covered women in politics, social media (she thinks that “the cruellest people in society” shouldn’t be given a voice), how some were bemused by her specialism in […]