Promoting the Politics of Courage
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 […]
The Chancellor’s hike in national insurance will seriously undermine community pharmacies, social care providers, GP practices and hospices, says West Cornwall & the Isles of Scilly MP, Andrew George. Figures published today indicate this will result in 20,000 fewer GP appointments in Cornwall alone. The CEO of Cornwall Hospice Care has warned it would strip […]
The Chancellor’s hike in national insurance will seriously undermine community pharmacies, social care providers, GP practices and hospices, says West Cornwall & the Isles of Scilly MP, Andrew George. Figures published today indicate this will result in 20,000 fewer GP appointments in Cornwall alone and the CEO of Cornwall Hospice Care has warned it would […]
News of a jobs freeze at the Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust (RCHT) has been described as “shocking” by St Ives Liberal Democrat MP Andrew George. The trust, which runs the Royal Cornwall Hospital at Treliske, Truro, St Michael’s Hospital, Hayle, and West Cornwall Hospital in Penzance, revealed last week that almost all staff recruitment is […]