THE government wants GPs to work seven days. Now it has set aside £10M to help GPs achieve that target. Seven day opening would cost billions, not millions. It means opening 12 hours on Saturday and Sunday. That is increasing GP access by 40%.
THE gleeful waving of "order papers" accompanied by loud cheering from the Conservative benches at the conclusion of the budget speech has barely subsided before MPs, yet again
THE Local and General Elections did not go as i had hoped on May 7th. Thurrock still has two Conservative MPs and our borough council is as split as you like, i didn't participate at all this year so i deserve my disappointment.
WE know from research that 30-50% of patients do not take their medications as they should. This results in vast amounts of waste. Only recently I was handed a bag of unwanted medications by a family, worth circa £3000.00.
COUNCILLOR Graham Snell has gone on record to defend the decision of the UKIP Group not to support the Conservative Group candidate for the position of Deputy Mayor, Cllr Tunde Ojetola.
IT was a simple question, but one that stopped me in my tracks. I mean my faith should inform my vote, but listening to party leaders bamboozling me with their rhetoric I really don't have faith in any of them.
This really humbled me. So now I'm on 'a mission' and I need your help! I'm selling bricks for a pound to try and raise money to build each of the families an additional room. The target is £1250 for bricks
In my last letter I expressed how important it was for a firm diagnosis of mental health to lead the way forward for a positive recovery or stability to a mental health illness.
NO disease is ever rare when we recognise it in unity – it is not a cure, not breakthrough, not a fatality statistic, not an outbreak, that joins sufferers and their supporters of a disease together – the very fact of its existence is enough for individuals all over the world to add volume, strength and courage to the fight against it.
IS your silence on these matters because you don't know they are happening? If so, why don't you know? Surely as the representative for Thurrock you should know exactly what's going on in the area?
A MEMBER of the Thurrock Youth Cabinet, Dami Fawehinmi has written a blog piece on the issues and problems that confront young people from Thurrock today.
WHISTLEBLOWING is a form of complaining. As such, it is a means of improving quality of care in the NHS, and therefore should be encouraged. However, whistleblowers have been mistreated by the NHS. Some have been bullied, whilst others have had their careers ruined.
Consider then my shock, horror and disgust when I hear that Conservatives in Parliament led by ex cabinet minister, Liam Fox want the Government to bring in emergency legislation to deny Irish borne UK residents the right to vote.
