Does your area suffer from graffiti? Have you got problems with fly-tippers and rubbish on your streets.
If so, tell me about it, and I will contact Birmingham City Council to get it cleared up.
Write to me at the House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA.
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31st January 2006 |
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ROLE OF BRUM RESIDENTS IN WHITE PAPER WRITING REVEALED
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Plans for a new generation of NHS community hospitals were unveiled yesterday with help from ten Birmingham residents.
Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt offered a lifeline to threatened community hospitals in Shropshire and Worcestershire as she warned local health managers would have to justify closing them.
Birmingham MP Liam Byrne (Lab Hodge Hill), a Health Minister, helped to draw up yesterday's long-awaited Health White Paper, which includes plans to make GP surgeries available at night and weekends.
Read the whole Birmingham Post article here
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31st January 2006 |
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*Neighbourhood Action Planning Event dates added to Noticeboard page. |
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Birmingham City Council are holding Neighbourhood Planning Events over the next two months to meet with residents and community groups to look at priorities for the neighbourhood.
The meetings will go towards developing this year's Community Plan, and developing Neighbourhood management in Hodge Hill.
The dates of the meetings have just been put on the Noticeboard. Click here. |
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31st January 2006 |
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LIAM HELPS LAUNCH WHITE PAPER ON IMPROVING COMMUNITY CARE SERVICES |
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Above: Liam on a recent trip to meet patients and practitioners in Sheffield. |
BRITAIN today is a country of extraordinary opportunity. We are one of the world’s most open economies and a technology leader. We are a hub of global trade. We have never been better educated, better trained or better connected.
But as Britain changes, so do the needs of its people. They live faster, busier lives than ever before. Families and communities are changing, breaking down traditional structures of nurture, advice and support. They need public services to work around them. Not the other way round.....................
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Click here to read the whole Times article
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30th January 2006 |
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| 'Our Health, our care, our say: a new direction for community services' |
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Liam today helped launch the Department of Health's White Paper to improve community health and care services. You can read a summary of proposed new measure by clicking here. If you would like to read the White Paper in full, you can click here. |
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30th January 2006 |
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| LIAM DEFENDS THE PRIME MINISTER'S RESPECT AGENDA |
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| Click here to read Liam's article on new ASB laws, which was featured in the Birmingham Post on Friday |
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18th January 2006 |
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Liam has today commented on the news that Alan Amey, has stepped down as Chief Executive of LDV, to take up a consultancy role until his retirement in May 2006. |
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14th January 2006 |
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| LIAM WELCOMES PM'S RESPECT AGENDA |
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Liam has welcomed the Prime Minister’s announcement of new powers for local communities to fight yobs and neighbours who make life miserable for the law abiding majority.
The announcement came as part of the Prime Minister’s Respect Agenda ‘action plan’
Click here to read the full story |
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13th January 2006 |
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| FULL STORY BEHIND BIRMINGHAM DENTAL POSTERS |
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Many thanks to everyone who's written to Liam in the past weeks about forthcoming changes to the way dentistry services are provided in Birmingham.
A detailed letter outlining the changes, and what they will mean for patients will be coming out to all those who have written in. I will also write with the outcome of a meeting that is taking place between Birmingham Dentists and local MPs, on Wednesday 17th January.
Just a couple of very quick points that I thought I'd share with you.
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Simple Procedures would not cost more under proposed plans.
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Six monthly check ups will not end
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Existing patients will not pay more for those who do not look after their teeth.
I will write giving more detail , including copies of letters I requested from the Minister responsible, Rosie Winterton MP, and from the Chief Executive of Eastern Birmingham PCT.
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