I recently asked the Prime Minister about the risk of six hundred community pharmacies closing because of a contract that’s driving them to bankruptcy. It was signed before the cost-of-living crisis and prior to problems we’re now experiencing with medical supplies. You might think a doctor writes a prescription, the pharmacist provides the content andContinue reading Pharmacies Need Saving
The Works and Pensions Select Committee is currently conducting an inquiry into jobs. There are three main issues.: shortages in key areas affecting growth and outcomes, too few people with the right skills, and deprivation which limits opportunity. Our inquiry is considering how other countries are dealing with these problems. One of our biggest concernsContinue reading Introducing Mentors
In his first public address of the New Year, the Prime Minister made five pledges which he says are the foundations for a better future. After thirteen years, aren’t we entitled to more than laying the foundations? He says he’ll half inflation before the end of the year which, as Chancellor, he let rip. OfContinue reading We Deserve a Lot Better
This week I travelled to Manchester, I still prefer Birmingham, to deliver a keynote speech at a conference on Looked After Children. They are children for whom the state has assumed responsibility because they can no longer live with their parent or parents. Nearly 500,000 children are in the care system at any one timeContinue reading Birmingham youngsters deserve better
Waiting for an ambulance is not a good experience. I recognise there are many pressures but was surprised to learn how much ambulance time is taken up attending violent incidents. In 2020, they were called to 577 stabbings across Birmingham. Between 2000 and 2012 knife crime and other violent offences fell but in recent yearsContinue reading Collaborate to beat knife crime
The Labour MP for Birmingham Selly Oak – Steve McCabe MP – critiqued the Government’s forthcoming legislative agenda for failing to address the key issues affecting the West Midlands. Speaking in last Monday’s Queen’s Speech debate in the House of Commons, the Birmingham MP highlighted the absence of a number of key topics from the programme including the lack of a plan toContinue reading Birmingham MP brands Queen’s Speech a ‘Missed Opportunity’
For a number of years protests have been taking place outside of the BPAS Birmingham South Robert Clinic on Station Road. Due to a growing number of concerns from residents, staff and patients of the clinic, the Council has launched a consultation on the introduction of PSPO, the PSPO is drawn from Beaumont Road to Northfield Road, with the clinic andContinue reading Robert Clinic PSPO Consultation
As part of the NHS Parliamentary Awards, MPs have the opportunity to nominate and thank the outstanding NHS workers in their constituencies. The NHS is one of our nation’s proudest achievements and for over 70 years dedicated NHS staff have been there for us all. Whether they are doctors, pharmacists and nurses on the frontline,Continue reading STEVE MCCABE CALLS FOR NOMINATIONS FOR NHS PARLIAMENTARY AWARDS 2022
Steve McCabe, Member of Parliament for Birmingham Selly Oak, is proudly backing an upcoming Heart Valve Disease Awareness campaign. On Thursday the 24th of February, UK heart valve disease charity Heart Valve Voice and the European Campaign “Valve for Life” will be offering free heart checks from a Heart Valve Disease Double decker bus in Birmingham City Centre from 10:00-15:00. The busContinue reading Birmingham MP backs Heart Valve Disease Bus Campaign
Having chaired the Health and Care Bill in Parliament, convention requires that I shouldn’t vote at Report Stage. That doesn’t mean I don’t have real issues with what’s going on. Boris Johnson told us he had a plan to fix social care. Eventually he announced proposals to cover big shortfalls in funding by raising £12Continue reading Social care fix robs poor and helps the rich
