Pippa knows the value of a strong national health service. As a child she joined her GP Dad on his rounds in Hull, and more recently the fantastic doctors and nurses at Addenbrookes saved her husband’s life when he was diagnosed with leukemia. Supporting her elderly mother, Pippa has also experienced the challenges many families go through navigating an under funded social care system in dire need of reform.
Pippa has made the NHS her top priority and is campaigning for proper investment to get health services back on their feet. Cambridgeshire has the lowest per capita funding for GPs of anywhere in the country. Pippa is calling for:
To support Pippa’s health campaigns, see the news articles and petitions linked below
In one of their first votes in Parliament, the new Liberal Democrat MPs for Cambridgeshire have voted in support of an amendment to the King's Speech which would see action taken on sewage dumping, cost of living and the NHS
Cambridgeshire’s new Lib Dem MPs have written to the new Health Secretary calling on the government to use pledged new investment in GPs to ‘deliver a fairer GP funding formula for Cambridge’
The Liberal Democrats have today (24th May) announced that their five year plan to give patients in South Cambs a legal right to see a GP within a week or 24-hours if in urgent need will be in their General Election manifesto.
