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Jun 12
Children with cancer and seriously ill patients should not lose vital medicines because HMRC has moved the goalposts.
Sign the petition to Scrap the Cancer Drugs Tax 👇
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Stuart Andrew retweeted
Jun 12
Did you know the Government is reclaiming VAT on free drugs given to cancer patients?
A tax on charitable cancer drugs?
Yes, really!!
Let me explain...
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Jun 11
From a colleague I have huge regard for. Wise and worrying words…..
I’m still astounded that in the midst of the current geopolitical situation we face, the UK, a global nuclear power, 8 hours on, is still without a Secretary of State for Defence….
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Jun 11
Scrap the Cancer Drugs Tax
Labour are applying VAT to life-saving, FREE drugs for terminally ill children and adults.
Compassionate medicines offer hope and are provided for free by companies to patients for whom all conventional treatment options have been exhausted.
Labour must act quickly to reverse this decision.
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Jun 11
Children with cancer and seriously ill patients should not lose access to vital medicines because HMRC has moved the goalposts.
Pausing enforcement is not enough.
Scrap the Cancer Drugs Tax.
Jun 11
New Health Secretary, James Murray, was a Treasury Minister when VAT bills started being issued on medicines given for free in clinical trials. So he’s now perfectly placed to put a stop to this craziness, which is seeing critical, innovative treatments pulled from sick adults and children.
Well done to @drcarolinej for keeping the heat on Labour Ministers on the Cancer Drugs Tax with her Urgent Question today.
As she says, ‘When hearing that “every meeting” with Labour MPs was about “who can we tax in order to pay benefits to others?” few would have imagined that that would include potentially lifesaving, charitably given drugs for sick adults and dying children.”
We’ve been warning Ministers about this since October. After getting a pause, the issue is still not resolved, putting charities, patients and life sciences firms in limbo.
If Labour is serious about putting patients first, they should Scrap the Cancer Drugs Tax.
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Jun 11
Labour promised competence and stability.
Now the Defence Secretary has resigned, warning that the Government’s defence plans are not properly funded and do not meet the risks facing the country.
That should make everyone look harder at Labour’s promises.
If the sums do not add up, the promises do not either.
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Jun 10
Update on palliative care beds at Danetre Hospital:
After concerns were raised with me by local residents, I met Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust last week.
I was reassured that the temporary suspension was due to an unexpected staffing issue, and that an interim consultant has now been appointed.
NHFT has confirmed that palliative care services will return, though it may take a few weeks for the beds to become available again.
I also discussed the future of Danetre Hospital and was reassured that there are no plans to reduce services.
I have asked to visit the hospital in the coming weeks to discuss its future and follow the restoration of a service so many local families value deeply.
Thank you to everyone who got in touch.
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Jun 9
NHS staff should be able to focus on caring for patients, not navigating identity politics.
Single-sex spaces, dignity and safeguarding matter.
@KemiBadenoch is right. Public services need common sense, equal treatment and one clear standard for everyone.
Jun 9
The Public Sector Equality Duty has allowed identity politics, DEI bureaucracy and ideological box-ticking to take over our public services.
Enough is enough. It's time to scrap it.
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Jun 8
Labour promised to end corridor care.
More than 16,000 excess deaths have now been linked to long A&E waits.
Patients, families and staff need action, not just promises.
The Health Secretary needs to deliver.
Jun 7
16,000 NHS patients in England died after long waits in A&E... as service admits to hundreds of serious surgery blunders trib.al/g3oMNdj
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Jun 5
RT @mimsdavies: ❌ Delay after delay after delay ❌
The Secretary of State used every excuse under the sun - impact assessments, consultati…
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Jewish patients putting off care. Staff facing racism from colleagues.
Lord Mann’s review exposes a deeply troubling culture of antisemitism and wider racism in parts of the NHS.
Ministers have accepted the recommendations. Now NHS leaders must be held accountable for rooting it out.
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Jun 2
Glad to see the Health Secretary now knows what a woman is.
After months of delay on the Code of Practice, the NHS needs clear direction.
Female wards, intimate care and changing rooms must be protected on the basis of biological sex.
May 17
The Health Secretary is responsible for women’s healthcare, maternity services, breast cancer screening, female hospital wards and single-sex spaces for patients and staff.
These are serious issues that shape care and safeguarding across the NHS.
He should be able to define a woman without implying it is up for debate.
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Jun 2
Labour spent two years promising the Health Bill would transform the NHS.
Patients are still waiting. Staff are still under pressure. Doctors are still striking.
Now Ministers have to prove this is more than another announcement.
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Patients are fed up with excuses.
They want appointments when they need them, shorter waiting lists and better care.
We support reform that cuts waste and improves services.
But Labour’s Health Bill must not weaken patient safety, patient voice or safeguards around NHS data.
My piece in the Express ahead of today’s Second Reading 👇
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May 29
So much for Labour’s National Care Service.
They promised reform, delayed meaningful change until 2028, and now appear to be rowing back from the pledge altogether.
Families, care workers and providers deserve better than delay, drift and yet another broken promise.
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