View image | gettyimages.com Norman Lamb tells the Eastern Daily Press that he threatened to resign during his 3 year term as health and social care minister. The issue was waiting time targets for mental health conditions – and he got his way. You always had the feeling that Norman knew exactly what he was […]
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 […]
Jim Hume MSP: SNP risks making GPs an exclusive service that many can’t access
I was interested to see this report in today’s Scotsman which featured Labour and the SNP slugging it out over cuts to GP training posts. People are finding it more and more difficult to get an early appointment with their GPs. You would think that the service that is the most common way for us to […]
Jim Hume MSP: SNP risks making GPs an exclusive service that many can’t access
I was interested to see this report in today’s Scotsman which featured Labour and the SNP slugging it out over cuts to GP training posts. People are finding it more and more difficult to get an early appointment with their GPs. You would think that the service that is the most common way for us to […]
Disgraceful attitude to mental health disguised by the warm words of Iain Duncan-Smith
Listening to Iain Duncan-Smith can be enough to send anyone to sleep. He drones on and one can be lulled into thinking he is being quite reasonable. However, behind his warm words, there is a chilling attitude to disabilities and particularly to mental illness. He seems to be saying: There must be something you can […]
LibLink: Jim Hume MSP: Out of sight, out of mind? Why the SNP need to get serious on mental health
Liberal Democrat MSP Jim Hume has been writing on the Scottish Liberal Democrat website about the crisis in mental health care in Scotland, where they haven’t had a Norman Lamb in power transforming mental health provision. In Scotland during the last 5 years, over 4000 people were treated outside their own health board. Jim says […]
Lunchtime debate – should e-cigs be prescribed by NHS?
On 16th September, it’ll be 17 years since I last had a cigarette. I was one of those smokers who never really wanted to give up, who really enjoyed a cigarette. However, my consumption was a bit worrying – at least a pack of 20 a day. It was pregnancy which forced my hand. From […]
Jim Hume MSP: Scottish mental health units ‘struggling to cope’
From the Scotsman today: More than 4,000 patients have been sent for mental health treatment outside their health board area in the past five years, according to latest figures. The Scottish Liberal Democrats, who obtained the figures through parliamentary questions, have warned that mental health units across Scotland are struggling to cope with demand. The […]
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: […]