More money for the local NHS to help our GPs and hospitals do their job

Good news from the Mid and South Essex Health and Care Partnership:

"The NHS in mid and south Essex is delighted to be delivering an innovative pilot programme which provides a total diet replacement treatment for some patients who are living with Type 2 Diabetes and are overweight.  

I’m aware some of my constituents, and readers of the Ongar News, have been upset they can no longer walk into the Ongar Health Centre to book an appointment.

The last couple of years have been a challenge for all those working in the NHS, not least those for the East of England Ambulance Service, who have had to offer help and advice far beyond usual need while hospitals were full of acutely ill Covid patients.

However you’re spending the bank holiday weekend, make sure you know where you can go for local health care.  

It's been a difficult couple of years since I last published a newspaper, but a summary of some of the big issues here in Brentwood and Ongar is now available and being delivered to every house in the constituency.

Alex Burghart MP has welcomed the Conservative Government’s Autumn Budget and Spending Review, saying it will help working families in the East of England meet the cost of living, support businesses’ recovery, deliver world-class public services, and drive economic growth.

There’s a tentative sense of confidence after eighteen months of lockdown and restrictions on our lives caused by the rapid spread of various variants of COVID-19. We have made huge progress – but there is still further to go.

In the four years since I was elected to represent Brentwood and Ongar in Parliament I have received a small but steady number of emails from constituents whose loved ones need more care to enable them to live safely, either in their homes or within a care home.

The final step of the Government’s roadmap out of lockdown is now in place, – with social distancing and mask-wearing requirements in law ending, large events restarting, restrictions on care home visits being lifted and all businesses being allowed to fully reopen.

As of this last weekend, all adults can now book a life-saving COVID vaccine. Everyone aged 18 and over is being urged to arrange a jab if they have not yet had one as the NHS COVID Vaccination Programme, the biggest in health service history, begins the final push to protect the country.