Promoting the Politics of Courage
Local MP and Commons Health Committee member, Andrew George welcomes the Government’s announcement that nearly 11,000 additional urgent dental appointments will be made available for patients in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly this year, as part of a £700,000 investment to address present NHS dental pressures. However, he warned that while this is a […]
Local MP, Andrew George, will step-up his campaign for improved 24/7 Urgent Treatment at Penzance Hospital, following the recent visit of his Liberal Democrat leader, Sir Ed Davey MP. Sir Ed and Andrew met senior managers and clinicians at West Cornwall Hospital last weekend. They were shown around the hospital by Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust […]
In response to today’s government announcement that funding for the Women & Children’s Hospital at Treliske has been secured, and will be delivered as part of ‘Wave 1’ of the New Hospital Programme – ie 2025-2030, Commons health select committee and Liberal Democrat MP for the West Cornwall and Isles of Scilly constituency of St […]
The Care Quality Commission received its own inspection report this week and was rated “inadequate”. The troubled Inspectorate was before the Commons Health Committee this week – with the newly appointed chief executive, Sir Julian Hartley, and the outgoing chair Ian Dilks. The troubled organisation has lost staff, mishandled its commissioning of new technology, and […]
Pictured (from left to right) is Andrew George MP, local Liberal Democrat campaigner, Ruth Gripper, Ben Maguire MP (North Cornwall) outside Treliske to celebrate the news Local MP, Andrew George, warmly congratulated hospital staff, managers and campaigners following news that the green light has been given by government to deliver the much-needed Women & Children’s […]
West Cornwall MP, Andrew George, is urging health ministers to end the practice of ‘corridor care’, not to let it become normalised. He made his remarks as Liberal Democrats publish analysis which reveals there were a record 518,000 “trolley waits” of 12 hours or more last year in Emergency Departments (A&Es). It follows a media […]
Responding to the Prime Minister’s speech on the government’s plans to cut NHS waiting lists, local Liberal Democrat MP and Health Committee member, Andrew George said: “Cutting waiting lists is welcome, but this must not come at the expense of patients lying on trolleys in hospital corridors or in the back of an ambulance for […]
Commenting on the declared “critical incident” status across Cornwall’s health system and widening winter crisis across the UK, Health Select Committee member and local MP, Andrew George said: “Resilience must be built into our NHS before it can plan any much-needed reorganisation. The problem is that our hospitals have been set to operate on a […]
Andrew George voted for the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill in the Commons today, and spoke, explaining early in the debate that this vote merely permitted the Bill to proceed to a stage of examination and scrutiny. Andrew said after the vote: “This is a good outcome. I believe the Bill strikes the […]
The Health and Social Care Committee has this week launched an inquiry into the cost of inaction on adult social care reform. Local MP, Andrew George – a member of the Committee – is calling for local contributions to inform the inquiry: “Successive governments have failed to implement the many ideas which have come forward […]