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

It’s a year this week since the Prime Minister appeared on our TV screens to explain the UK was entering a period a lockdown to try to bring the rising rates of coronavirus infections under control.

The next review of the current lockdown restrictions is due this week and, here in Brentwood and Ongar, the number of coronavirus infections is falling. In less than two months we have gone from having one of the highest rates of infection in England to one of the lowest in Essex.

More than twelve million people across the UK have now received their first vaccination against the worst effects of COVID-19, with half a million of those being fully vaccinated with the follow up dose.

I am pleased to report that the roll out of the Pfizer and AstraZeneca vaccines is now well underway across Brentwood with hundreds of vulnerable older people having already received doses at our vaccination hubs.

It has been extremely impressive to see how Brentwood Community Hospital has developed and grown during the course of the pandemic.

Each week the Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust will provide an update on their plans to deliver excellent care to patients – those with COVID-19 and our non-COVID-19 patients, throughout the winter period - which I will share with my constituents by updating this article.

The Government are committed to levelling up opportunities across the UK. People shouldn’t have to leave their local area to get on in life, or to further their career. 

As we head into winter, we have reached what the Deputy Chief Medical Officer has called a ‘tipping point’ in the ongoing fight against COVID-19. Cases are now starting to rise steeply locally and appear to be doubling every week.

During the Conservative Party Conference 2020, the Prime Minister, Boris Johnson MP, set out his new plan - Build Back Better.

Brentwood and Ongar MP Alex Burghart has urged all those people in Brentwood and Ongar who are eligible for the flu jab to get one this winter, as the Government launches its drive to vaccine 30 million people.