Civil society, cities and regions call for targeted support for their vital contribution to implementation of the Paris Agreement Despite an unprecedented mobilisation of non-state and subnational actors in the fight against climate change since the historic COP21 summit in … read more
At the Clean Air Forum taking place today in Paris the Commission and the EU Environment Agency launched a new Air Quality Indexwhich allows citizens to monitor air quality in real time. The Commission also published an Air Quality Atlas, … read more
Jonathan Ashworth MP, Labour’s Shadow Health Secretary, responding to the latest data on mixed sex ward breaches, said:
“In 2012 Jeremy Hunt said mixed sex
wards had been “virtually eliminated”. The fact that mixed sex wards are now at
their highest level for six years reveals a bigger picture of overcrowded and
overstretched hospitals as a result of Tory underfunding and mismanagement.
“Yet again we see patients cruelly let down by Theresa May. Ministers simply
cannot carry on burying their heads in the sand about the scale of the problems
facing the NHS. In the Budget, Theresa May must match Labour’s pledge to
deliver an extra £6 billion for our NHS across the next financial year to
ensure the best possible quality of care is sustained for years to come.”
Barbara Keeley MP, Labour’s Shadow Minister for Social Care, commenting on the Government’s announcement that they will publish a Green Paper on the long term funding of social care by summer 2018, said:
“This complacent Tory Government is dragging its feet over the long term funding of social care at a time when the system is creaking under winter pressures.
“Scandalously, on this trajectory it will have taken a year to publish this Green Paper from the date it was announced and will be even longer before we have a clear policy from the Government.
“Alarmingly, it also does not appear that the Green Paper will consult on working age people with social care needs.
“Given the current crisis in social care, the Tory Government must take immediate action to find a long-term solution to the social care crisis it has created.”
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