Urgent repairs are needed for Stepping Hill Hospital, with buildings being condemned, corridors flooded, and light fittings falling out of ceilings. Sign our petition to tell the Department of Health to fund the critical repairs that are needed today, and a long-term plan for tomorrow. With an estimated £130 million backlog of repairs, we need urgent funding today, and a long-term development plan for a new, additional site in the centre of Stockport, located near the transport interchange.
Statistics from the Office for National Statistics have revealed that suicide rates are currently at their highest since the turn of the century.
The Government needs to address the cliff edge of the Special Guardianship Support Fund, with adoptive parents looking after some of the country's most vulnerable children needing certainty. That's why I challenged the Minister in Parliament this week.
The need for Fair Adoption Pay has been championed again by Liberal Democrat MP Lisa Smart, who raised the cause in a recent House of Commons Debate.
The Labour Government’s “Golden Hello” scheme for dentists has been condemned after it was revealed that only two dentists have been employed through the scheme in the whole of Greater Manchester.
The ongoing reduction in local authorities’ spending power can only be tackled by the Government addressing the critical shortfalls in social care, local MP Lisa Smart has told a Commons debate on local government funding.
Local MP Lisa Smart has raised concerns that the Department of Health’s golden hello scheme may not be delivering for areas which have already lost their NHS dentists.