Chloe SmithThe Government has announced £421 million in extra funding for local authorities to boost drug and alcohol treatment in England, reducing pressure on the NHS, improving health and wellbeing across the country and saving lives. Addictions drive around half of all theft,...
The Government has announced £421 million in extra funding for local authorities to boost drug and alcohol treatment in England, reducing pressure on the NHS, improving health and wellbeing across the country and saving lives. Addictions drive around half of all theft,...
Following a period of intense winter pressures and seasonal illnesses, I am delighted to see that A&E waiting times at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital (NNUH) are improving, with more and more patients waiting less than four hours for emergency and urgent treatment during January 2023...
More than 5% of the world’s population - 466 million people - experience disabling hearing loss, according to the World Health Organization. This has happened to a close member of my own family, as well as many constituents. That's my inspiration for doing all I ca...
I recognise that access to NHS dentists remains an issue for my constituents, a situation compounded by the pandemic and a shortage in dental workforce across the UK. The Government has recently taken a number of steps to encourage dentists to take on more NHS work and made it easier for overseas de...
In National Tinnitus Week, when we might think about the problems of being hard of hearing, I've been looking into subtitling, which can be a great support to many people who struggle with hearing TV. I've quizzed ministers about achieving more subtitling across live broadcast T...
It’s National Tinnitus Week. Millions of people cope with this every day, and one of them is my dad. His deafness, including tinnitus and other conditions, inspired me to get the British Sign Language Act into law, and I hope that will help many Deaf and hard of hearing people for years to com...
On Saturday 4 February 2023, we mark World Cancer Day. 10 million people died of cancer in 2020. I'm lucky not to have been one of them - I was diagnosed that year, and got great NHS treatment. I want everyone to have that treatment if they ne...
Too many constituents are waiting too long in A&E or for ambulances. So today I am pleased to see the Government announce a plan to fix A&E and ambulance waiting times. The NHS is facing serious challenges as a result of the Covid pandemic and the worst 'flu season for o...
The Government has announced a £150 million investment into new mental health care facilities across England, which will see the development of 150 new urgent mental health care facilities offering care to adults and young people. At a time when too often people are ...