Originally published @ 11:04 am, Thu 11th Feb 2010
I was pleased to be able to take part in a health debate on Monday.
Celebrating an increase of average lifetimes of 4 years in the last 10 years.
A public consultation event on reducing smoking and healthy eating found people calling for a range of measures including better communications and better labelling of food.
Better labelling is something Glenis Willmott MEP is working on now.
The nature of ill health being treated is changing. Dementia is becoming more common. There is a demand for more research into the condition.
We have to plan for the challenges an older population will bring and I welcome the creation of a National Care Service.
Free personal care at home for the most chronic cases, and protection from charges for good from October.
I attended a South Derbyshire 50+ Forum last year when they were discussing the green paper with Mark Todd MP in a very constructive way.
So I share Gordon Brown’s frustration (expressed at Prime Minister’s Questions) - when the Tories launched a campaign against a death tax – a parody of one of the options in the green paper, which as it happens, when it was discussed in Parliament, the Tories agreed with.
Finally, the Labour Party has launched a web-site to show its determination for a better health service - visit - http://www.votenhs.com/
Labour pledges a new NHS guarantee of cancer diagnosis within one week of being referred by your GP. The Tories would scrap your patient guarantees.
The "Target Cancer" campaign aims to save up to 10,000 lives by backing a pledge to create a new NHS guarantee of cancer diagnosis within one week of GP referral, allowing patients to be tested and told their results in just seven days.
The Tories would scrap Labour's patient guarantees, including the right to cancer diagnosis within one week and to see a specialist in two weeks. They would also scrap our agreement with doctors, so that under the Tories, GPs' surgeries would be allowed to cut their opening hours.
Comments