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MP Marks Wellbeing Week

Oldham East and Saddleworth MP Debbie Abrahams marked World Wellbeing Week this week by calling for people’s wellbeing to be a key objective of Government, and not just economic growth. The theme of 2023’s world wellbeing week is anxiety. Before being elected as the MP for Oldham East and Saddleworth, Ms Abrahams was a public health consultant focusing on health inequalities and Chair of […]

Debbie Abrahams MP Opens UK’s First Ever Metastatic Breast Cancer Conference

Debbie Abrahams, Labour MP for Oldham East & Saddleworth recently opened the first ever Metastatic Breast Cancer (MBC) Conference in Greater Manchester. Working alongside METUP UK – set up by her constituent Jo Taylor, as well as Mayor Andy Burnham and the Greater Manchester Combined Authority; Debbie delivered the opening address at the event and […]

Social Security Health Assessments System has Contributed to the Deaths of Claimants

The cross party Work and Pensions Select Committee responsible for scrutinising the Department for Work and Pensions’ (DWP) policies, has published a damning report on the Government’s health assessments system which is used to screen whether sick and disabled people should have access to vital social security payments. These payments provide financial support to a […]

The Challenges Facing Our NHS

My office has been inundated with messages from my constituents concerned about forthcoming operations and other treatments. I have seen for myself the immense strain being placed on our NHS staff. The hardworking Royal Oldham Hospital staff have been praised by the CQC for their care and commitment to patients in the recent inspection however, […]

An Important Update

I wanted to let you know that I will be undergoing hip replacement surgery this week which will mean I won’t be around over the next few weeks. You may recall I had my first hip replaced in 2018. Unfortunately over the last 18 months or so, I have been experiencing severe pain in my […]

Tory Promise to Increase GP Numbers Fails to Materialise

The Government has failed to keep their promise to increase the number of GPs by 5,000 within five years. Since 2015, the number has actually dropped by 1,425. We shouldn’t be surprised that another Tory promise fails to materialise but you just can’t make promises like this around health care, fail, and then assume no-one […]

My Blog for Dementia Carers Count

This week I wrote a blog as part of Dementia Carers Count’s In this Together campaign. This initiative is providing a programme of tailored learning sessions, information sharing and family-carer activity over the next couple of weeks to let carers know they are not alone. You can read my blog here. If you are one of the 700,000 […]

My Contribution to Parliamentary Debate on the Impact of Long Covid

I recently co-sponsored a backbench business debate on the impact of long covid on the workforce. This is an issue that the All Party Parliamentary Group on Coronavirus, of which I am Vice Chair, have examined in detail. Please see my speech in the debate below: It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member […]

Oldham MP speaks out about NHS reorganisation plans

I have spoken out against the Government’s plans to pass a new bill to reorganise the NHS in England. As a long-time campaigner against NHS privatisation, previously resigning as Chair of Rochdale Primary Care Trust over concerns of the increase in use of private healthcare companies in the NHS, I am speaking out this time […]

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