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Labour has challenged David Cameron to deliver on the recommendations of a key mental health taskforce after he pledged £1bn a year in support. Luciana Berger, shadow Cabinet minister for mental health, said the funding, due to be in place…
By Louise Haigh MP and Wes Streeting MP 53 new Labour MPs were elected on May 7th; we’re two of them. One of us is from London, the other Sheffield. We’re openly backing different leadership and deputy leadership candidates. It’s safe to…
Toby Perkins has been named as the campaign chair for Liz Kendall's leadership campaign. The Chesterfield MP told his local paper: "She is the fresh start we need for the Labour Party after the national defeat to the Conservatives who are…
David Cameron has today announced that the Conservatives are going to create a 'seven-day' health care service. But there's one small problem with this: it's not the first time he's made this promise. Cameron has, in fact, said he'd make…
It's still "NHS week" for Labour (after a brief foreign policy hiatus yesterday) and both Ed Miliband and Andy Burnham are out warning against Tory privatisation of the NHS today. In particular, they're both trying to draw attention to the…
Labour have announced they would set up a fund to pay for cancer drugs, surgery and radiotherapy, as part of a new cancer strategy they would publish in the first six months of government if elected. The government funded-Cancer Drugs Fund…
Alastair Campbell appeared on BBC Three programme Free Speech this week to talk about mental health, and his experiences of depression (you can watch the full episode here). In it, he tells the story of meeting Secretary of State for Health…
With a pocket full of dreams and with a considerable amount of student debt, I've just started my PGCE. I was more than a little sceptical when I heard of Tristram Hunt's new idea to raise the status of teaching. Here I'm surrounded by…
Today Labour activists will be out in force across the country to campaign on the NHS. They'll have the wind in their sails after Conference, buoyed by the fact that the Tories are rattled and now on the back foot. You can always tell when…
On Monday, Scottish National Party (SNP) leader Alex Salmond promised that in an independent Scotland, the NHS would be protected from cuts and privatisation. However, Andy Burnham, Shadow Secretary for Health has said that by making such…
“The best of times and the worst of times” - Charles Dickens wrote 160 years ago to begin his novel A Tale of Two Cities. But today we’re not dealing with two cities. It’s now a tale of two countries – of two nations. In one of them, things…
The Conservative Party’s opposition to Ed Miliband’s new GP access guarantee shows they have given up on standing up for patients. Unlike the Tories, Labour wants all patients to have decent access to their GP surgery. That’s why the…
