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£40m investment in Gloucester and Cheltenham hospitals

“Absolutely delighted,” was the reaction by Gloucester MP Richard Graham to the news that the Gloucestershire NHS Hospitals Trust has been awarded £40m of additional investment by NHS England to modernise and improve facilities at both the Gloucestershire Royal Hospital and the Cheltenham General Ho

Time to cap legal fees on NHS clinical negligence

There is currently no limit on legal costs claimed by lawyers in NHS cases of clinical negligence. These reimburse patients and families who’ve suffered from medical mistakes, but frankly too often lawyers have been the major beneficiaries.

Hospital Parking Charges: FairFuel Campaign

The Department of Health has published a clear set of principles to ensure that local parking charges are transparent and that local staff/visitors and their needs are taken into account (see:

NHS Volunteer Awards

Today I spoke at the NHS Volunteers' Long Service Awards about my experiences of our great NHS volunteers. Watch my speech in full:

Gloucester MP welcomes c£1 million for A&E services for Glos Hospitals Trust

Richard Graham MP says the c£1 million awarded to Gloucestershire Hospitals by the Department of Health will help ease the pressure on emergency departments before next winter. Richard said, “Funding for the Gloucestershire NHS is rising year on year, but we all know that our A&E departments ca

MP says all of Quedgeley to benefit from new Kingsway GP surgery

City MP Richard Graham said that planning permission given yesterday for the new GP surgery in Kingsway was the ‘last planning hurdle, successfully jumped’ for Gloucester’s largest surgery and ‘will benefit every resident of Quedgeley’. Richard has worked on this since calling on NHS Primary Care T