Health and Social Care

Ensuring that constituents receive the best Health and Adult Social Care for their needs, has been a huge priority for me since my election in 2015. With a proportion of elderly constituents way above the national average, I speak regularly in Parliament as to the needs of the constituency. In East Sussex, our local NHS and County Council teams have taken the bold step to move their health and social care budgets together to ensure that the money is following the patient. This ‘Better Together’ programme should mean fewer hospital stays and faster discharges. My support for this programme, and the other changes being made nationally and locally, features heavily in all that I say and do on this subject.  Please do let me know if you wish to share your experience of Health and Social Care provision (be this positive or negative). 

News

Plans to tackle the issue of social care

Parliament is back from its summer recess. I’ve had a positive summer, visiting our hardworking Parish and Town Councillors and Clerks to discuss the various challenges and projects which I can help with in Westminster and from home.

Huw Speaks in Social Care Debate

It has been a pleasure for us to sit here for the past four hours and exercise by seeking to catch your eye, Madam Deputy Speaker, no doubt contributing towards alleviating our future social care needs. In the next 20 years the population of England alone will increase by 10%.

Watch: Matt Hancock's Statement in Response to My Urgent Question

The Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Matt Hancock, gave an opening statement in response to my Urgent Question on the vaccination roll-out.     Huw Merriman (Urgent Question): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care if he will make a stat

Huw calls for improved family access to residential care settings

Local Bexhill and Battle MP, Huw Merriman, has called on the Government to take urgent steps to make it easier for family and friends to visit loved ones. Speaking in Parliament this week, the MP called for the Government to regularly test designated family members who would then be able to have cl

Huw Merriman Visits Hospice in the Weald’s Cottage Hospice

On Friday 25th October Huw Merriman, MP for Bexhill and Battle, visited the Cottage Hospice site in Five Ashes (part of his constituency), near Mayfield, with Rob Woolley, Chief Executive, and Holly Cowen, Head of Cottage Hospice. The Cottage Hospice, which is due to open in late November, is the f