Consulting on tackling health inequalities

2017 sees the 70th Birthday of Labour’s National Health Service; a service set up to provide universal healthcare for all, to improve people’s physical and mental health and crucially, to reduce inequality in our society.

Over the years, the NHS has been vital in ensuring that everybody is provided with healthcare from cradle to grave, regardless of how much they earn.

Despite this, real health inequalities in our society persist. That’s why the Labour Party is prioritising this issue for wide ranging discussion and consultation this year.

Health inequalities can have significant, detrimental impacts on physical health, mental health and life expectancy, and present a significant cost to society as a whole.

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Guy Opperman Neglects Dentistry Rescue Plan as 70% of Hexham Dentists Reject New Patients

Guy Opperman Neglects Dentistry Rescue Plan as 70% of Hexham Dentists Reject New Patients

18 January, 2024

In a recent House of Commons vote on a crucial motion to rescue NHS dentistry, Guy Opperman’s lack of support is callous and disheartening. Communities across the Constituency and struggling to access dental care. The proposed motion by the Labour Party aimed at addressing the dental crisis includes: Creating 700,000 additional urgent dentistry appointments Offering … Read More

Joe Morris Winning for Hexham!

Joe Morris Winning for Hexham!

17 October, 2023

Yesterday the CLP met in Hexham for the hustings and selection process for the Labour Party’s Parliamentary Candidate for the Hexham Constituency. After listening to the speeches and questions and answers from the two candidates (the third had withdrawn earlier in the day) members voted. The ballots cast in person and the postal votes were … Read More

Filthy dog waste a disgrace

Filthy dog waste a disgrace

26 August, 2023

On International Dog Day let’s celebrate our hounds and doggos: they’re great companions and furry friends that bring their owners joy. We love dogs and the Labour Party has animal welfare at its heart. Unlike the Tories and Guy Opperman who recently scrapped their manifesto pledge to bring in an Animal Welfare Bill that would … Read More

Heavy rainfall sparks sewage alert

Heavy rainfall sparks sewage alert

15 August, 2023

Heavy rain across the North East over the last few days has made for a miserable August and difficult driving conditions. What’s worse is that all of that rain runs into our rivers and oceans through networks of drains and sewers. Massive under-investment by our privatised water companies and repeated lack of action by the … Read More

Angie backs calls for water safety debate

Angie backs calls for water safety debate

22 May, 2023

Blaydon MP Liz Twist and Prudhoe North County Councillor Angie Scott have called for a debate on water safety in the House of Commons. Last year saw the tragic death of 13 year old Robert Hattersley from Crawcrook, who drowned in the River Tyne at Ovingham. His bereaved parents have launched a campaign to raise … Read More

Opperman votes to block Sewage Discharge Bill

Opperman votes to block Sewage Discharge Bill

25 April, 2023

This evening the Conservative Hexham MP Guy Opperman has voted to support the PM’s amendment to Labour’s Jim McMahon’s (Shadow Secretary for the Environment) Water Quality (Sewage Discharge) Bill. This Bill would have cracked down on the polluting water companies flooding our rivers and beaches with sewage but has been rendered toothless by Tory actions. … Read More

Hexham a target in ‘blue fade’

Hexham a target in ‘blue fade’

10 April, 2023

With a General Election on the horizon political strategists are eyeing the North of England as one of the key battlegrounds that will determine the shape and size of the next Labour government and its majority. Labour came within a whisker of winning Hexham in 1997 but since then the seat has been seen unwinnable, … Read More

13 unlucky years of Conservative government

13 unlucky years of Conservative government

29 March, 2023

The country is in a mess after 13 years of Conservative Government. It’s difficult to point to anything that is working better now than in 2010. Help us to do something about it. It’s time for a change in Hexham Constituency. Hexham deserves better than Guy Opperman and a failed Conservative government. Join us to … Read More

Labour will train next generation of Doctors and Nurses

Labour will train next generation of Doctors and Nurses

20 March, 2023

Labour promises to train a new generation of Doctors and Nurses using money raised by abolishing the non-dom tax status People who live here should pay tax here 13 years of Tory mismanagement has left the NHS without the doctors and nurses it needs. Ambulances arrive late or never at all, GP appointments and operations … Read More

Labour unveils 5 Missions for Britain

Labour unveils 5 Missions for Britain

23 February, 2023

Speaking today in Manchester, Keir Starmer laid out how our Labour government will be driven by five missions: Secure the highest sustained growth in the G7 Build an NHS fit for the future Make Britain’s streets safe Break down the barriers to opportunity at every stage Make Britain a clean energy superpower We believe that … Read More