TO my delight I have hit the jackpot twice in a week.
The adjournment debate last night gave me an opportunity to speak for 15 minutes about the downfall of Kidderminster General Hospital and its future, followed by a reply from a health minister.
I have also obtained a slot on Prime Minister's Questions next Wednesday.
During the past week, I have had a useful meeting with Chief Supt Suzette Davenport and I was delighted to hear her views on the reasons for crime and its prevention.
I met representatives of the local medical committee and was surprised to hear from an Evesham GP that there is still a fear that any return of services to Kidderminster will be to the detriment of Evesham Hospital.
I reassured him that we are looking at hospital care for the benefit of patients in the whole county and are not fighting for improvements here that would harm anybody else's service.
We had a full and frank discussion about the problems facing general practitioners that are not sufficiently acknowledged by the Government.
After my surgery (contact number 01562 753333) I presented the prizes at the Wyre Forest Business Club's annual awards and heard about our innovative small businesses which are doing so much to promote the image of Wyre Forest
In London this week I addressed a rally of senior citizens in Westminster Central Hall, organised by the National Pensioners Convention (NPC), the NHS Support Federation and the Community Care Protection Group in support of the rights of pensioners for free healthcare in the NHS.
Also on the platform were Barbara Castle and Jack Jones.
Unbelievably, in Scotland pensioners can receive long-term care under the NHS, whereas in England it is not free.
After the rally there was a lobby of MPs but as there is no branch of the NPC in Wyre Forest I looked in vain for any of my senior constituents.
The all-party local hospital group of MPs met Andy Black, the advocate of the model for local medical emergency units that could be the way of seeing the return of emergency services to Kidderminster, and the maintenance of emergency services at other threatened hospitals.
This was very valuable and encouraged us all that a great change has taken place in health service designers' thinking
It confirms that the model which has condemned us to the loss of so many services from our hospital is at last seen as outdated and incorrect.
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