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This week I introduced my Rural Healthcare Bill to Parliament, putting North Cornwall right at the centre of the national debate. During my speech I called on the Government to develop a proper long-term strategy for Minor Injuries Units and Urgent Treatment Centres in rural areas like ours, and highlighted some of the unacceptable barriers my constituents face when trying to access healthcare. I also raised the continuing issues weβre grappling with around the NHS dentistry crisis, dementia care, mental health services, and the reality that lots of constituents are forced to travel huge distances for treatment, because our transport network severely lacks routes to major hospitals. I will be pressing Ministers to ensure rural communities like ours are no longer treated as an afterthought when healthcare decisions are made, and will be building on my calls in the upcoming Health Bill, too.
My campaign to protect North Cornwall’s volunteer coastguards has also continued at pace this week, as I raised the issue again in Parliament and spoke to BBC Radio Cornwall on the topic, to carry on pressing Ministers to rethink the Maritime and Coastguard Agency’s proposed damaging changes. These volunteers save so many lives along our coastline every year, yet the current plans risk driving volunteers away altogether. I have made it clear there are indeed workable alternatives (including, for example, introducing a stipend system for on-call hours) and Iβll keep pushing the Government to explore every possible option before this vital service is put at risk.
In Bude this week, I joined our local Cornwall Councillors Nicky Chopak and Faye Emery in writing to the Council to call for a much wider public consultation on the βFuture Coast Budeβ funding programme. There are clearly a range of views across the community at the minute, so local people must have the opportunity to shape how this funding is spent. We also made it clear that improved disabled changing facilities absolutely need to remain a priority, and that any funding allocated to Bude should remain in the town, rather than being redirected elsewhere.
There was also welcome news on banking services this week, following sustained campaigning from myself and other MPs. Lloyds Bank has announced it will continue accepting cheque deposits through Post Offices and Banking Hubs for the coming few years, subject to agreements with providers. This is a massive victory for everyone who reached out to me to raise this, and one for people who continue to depend on face-to-face banking services after the closure of so many local bank branches here in the constituency.
On another note, I recently visited Beaumont Court Care Home in North Petherwin, where I spent time chatting with residents and staff about the enormous pressures facing social care at the minute. Staff told me about huge funding shortfalls, lengthy delays recruiting overseas care workers, and the wider problems affecting care homes right across Cornwall. Behind all of those figures are vulnerable residents themselves (many living with dementia and complex care needs) and it reinforced just how urgently social care reform is needed in this country. I will now be taking those concerns back to Westminster to raise with the Government in the coming weeks.
Finally, I also continued my campaign for greater powers for Cornwall this week, calling on Andy Burnham (our likely soon-to-be Prime Minister) to make Cornish devolution an absolute priority. Cornwall deserves a bespoke devolution settlement that recognises our unique identity and protects us from any future forced merger with neighbouring authorities, and Iβll be making that case loud and clear until we finally get the meaningful devolution weβve long been promised.
– Ben Maguire MP γγ
MP for North Cornwall | ben.maguire.mp@parliament.uk
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