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9.5% Drop In GP Funding For Mid Cheshire’s Patients

by Jack Price-Harbach on 30 January, 2024

Figures reveal GP funding slashed in Mid Cheshire since 2019 – Funding for GP practices in Cheshire and Merseyside has been slashed by £37.7 million in real terms since 2019  – Nationally, the Conservatives have cut GP funding by 6.9% per patient in real terms  – Cheshire West & Chester’s Liberal Democrats are calling for […]

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Mid Cheshire Is A Dentistry Desert

by Jack Price-Harbach on 24 January, 2024

Thanks to 14 years of Conservative chaos, the availability of NHS dentistry has never been so dire. I have 13 NHS Dental Practices in my constituency of Mid Cheshire. According to the NHS Find A Dentist page, if you are an adult, you need an NHS appointment and are looking to register with a dental […]

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96% Increase in 4 Hour Plus Waiting Times

by Jack Price-Harbach on 23 January, 2024

43,000 people in Mid Cheshire waited more than four hours in A&E last year – There has been a 96.6% rise in patients in Mid Cheshire Foundation Trust waiting more than four hours in A&E since 2019 – In Mid Cheshire, 43.442 people waited over four hours in 2023 – Nationally, nearly 3 million more […]

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May – October 2023

by Owen Grey on 28 October, 2023

I’m happy to share that it’s been a rather hectic (almost) six months. Following the creation of a Green, Liberal, and independent administration at East Suffolk District Council, I was made chair of the Audit and Governance Committee, a role integral to ensuring the Council delivers value for money. The Committee is also charged with […]

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Louise, Richard and Trish travelled to City Hall, the HQ of London Mayor Sadiq Khan, on 30 June to join other Sutton Liberal Democrat Councillors in presenting a petition to the Mayor. The petition, signed by over 10 000 Sutton residents, expressed our opposition to the extension of the ULEZ zone to outer London boroughs. […]

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In support of our policies to combat global warming and reduce carbon emissions, the programme to fit electric vehicle charging points in lampposts in our Ward continues. A further consultation exercise is about to take place on the installation of two new electric vehicle charging points in Mulgrave Road, close to the junction with Worcester […]

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On Thursday the 11th of May, Cllr Aude Boubaker-Calder, Scottish Liberal Democrats councillor for Dunfermline Central, voiced in the full council meeting the over-a-decade plea of Dunfermline residents to see essential services reinstated in the Queen Margaret Hospital after the latest closure of the hospice and haematology ward in the city. Since its opening in […]

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After it was announced that the Haematology Unit at the Queen Margaret Hospital was set to close, Liberal Democrat Councillors Aude Boubaker-Calder and James Calder have put forward a motion to be discussed at the City of Dunfermline Area Committee of 25th April. Councillor Aude Boubaker-Calder, who is proposing the motion, has said, “Once again despite being […]

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Free School Meals

by jerryroodhouse on 6 February, 2023

Liberal Democrat Warwickshire County Council Group are calling for greater entitlement of free scool meals.Cllr Jerry Roodhouse said that “The Liberal Democrat group on Warwickshire County Council are calling for greater Free School Meal access. We are calling for WCC to bring forward proposals that aim to significantly increase the take-up of Free School Meals, […]

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OUR CLIMATE EMERGENCY RESPONSE PLAN

by richardclifton on 17 January, 2023

Sutton Council has declared that there is a climate emergency and at the Council meeting on 16 January we adopted a progress report entitled “Environment Strategy and Climate Emergency: Progress Report and Update.” In his speech on this important report Richard pointed out that far from being some vague affirmation of worthy sentiments the report […]

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