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Rosie runs regular surgeries in both Canterbury and Whitstable once a fortnight. These surgeries are a chance for people get in touch with Rosie to let her know what your feel about issues in the news, government policies and what you want Labour to do about them.
Your Labour Councillors also run monthly surgeries in their local wards and are always willing to help where they can. Councillors can help with problems including anti-social behaviour, planning appeals, licensing and refuse collection.
I’ve visited many of our fantastic local schools and seen first-hand the damage done by cuts to education over the past 14 years. Schools are understaffed and crumbling, with running costs soaring. As a former teaching assistant, I’m always deeply impressed at the hard work done by staff in all our local schools to provide the best possible education for children, but they desperately need more funding from government.
I’ve worked tirelessly to support parents who struggle to find school places for their children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). Not only are there not enough school places for their children, but many also have to wait years before they even receive the right assessment. This is having a huge toll on families whose children are not receiving the appropriate form of education. The SEND support system is broken and in desperate need of reform.
Children’s mental health has been deeply impacted by the pandemic, and the ripples from that period have caused serious issues for families and schools to have to deal with, largely without desperately needed access to mental health support. ... See MoreSee Less
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This is crucial to me what are you proposing and how about SEND I Early Years? You have ignored my comments and requests for 2 weeks. I am a Labour voter but now not sure. You have 5 days to convince me. Cantetbury is not so easy this time as students at home although Sturry boundary move may help. Answer my questions emailed to you to secure. my vote please
She is showing more loyalty to the party than the party is to her...When will the top table of our party realise what an asset it has with Rosie Duffield..instead of pandering to forces that will never be happy with the direction Labour takes...
Resources are badly needed in this area and more political voices, labour needs those who can amplify send children's needs
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Have you ever been to Glastonury?
I dont know if you remember many years ago Canterbury was in darkness and very unsafe ... I contacted yourself and within days the council did what you asked ...in my eyes your a keeper xxx
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Our Labour teams are out in Canterbury and Whitstable High Streets today, talking to voters. Do stop by if you want to find out more about our plans to fix our broken country and put it back on its feet. I'll be out in our beautiful villages today too. And the chances are that 'Cyclists For Labour' will swoop into your area too! Just a few days to go now 😀 #reelectrosie 🗳️🌹🇬🇧 ... See MoreSee Less
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Excellent work Rosie! You've got my vote! 🌹🌹🌹🌹
I wish we had Rosie here in Faversham!
You've lost my vote 🗳
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I’m very grateful to retired midwife Jane for her endorsement. The need for improved standards and support for local maternity services will continue to be at the forefront of my work in Westminster if you re-elect me as your MP next week.
Childbirth should not be something women fear or look back on with trauma. That’s why Labour will ensure that hospital trusts failing on maternity care are robustly supported into rapid improvement. ... See MoreSee Less
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Glad Jane got the attention of Rosie. NHS deserves support. However I am still awaiting answers to my queries re education, pension rac local issues. Your team assured you'd answer. Where are they?
Midwifery needs a lot of support in this this corner of the country, both for women giving birth and for the staff providing this care. #ReElectRosie
Jane is an amazing midwife
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Labour founded our National Health Service, and for decades it has served us well. But the NHS is now clearly broken. Whilst the pandemic placed the NHS under unprecedented stress, the reality is waiting lists were already at record highs. The Conservatives have continually reached for sticking plaster solutions to the problems facing the NHS, without ever addressing the root causes.
Labour’s mission is to build an NHS fit for the future. Investment alone won’t be enough to tackle the problems facing the NHS; it must go hand in hand with fundamental reform. We must change the NHS so that it becomes not just a sickness service, but able to prevent ill heath in the first place.
It must also reflect the change in the nature of disease, with a greater focus on the management of chronic, long-term conditions. And we will deliver a renewed drive to tackle the biggest killers; cutting the lives lost to cancer, cardiovascular disease and suicide, while ensuring people live well for longer. ... See MoreSee Less
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You’ve got my vote Rosie Duffield for Canterbury but I wish you’d stop posting in Tory blue. Doesn’t feel right to me
#ReElectRosie 🌹 #VoteRosie
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Too many patients in our local hospitals are left waiting for hours, often in pain and misery, before they can be taken for vital scans.
The NHS has fewer diagnostic scanners per person than other countries, with many ageing machines operating long after they should. State of the art scanners are faster and more effective, saving lives in the process.
That’s why Labour will introduce a new ‘Fit For the Future’ fund to double the number of CT and MRI scanners in our hospitals, allowing the NHS to catch cancer and other conditions much earlier. ... See MoreSee Less
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I had to wait five months for a physio appointment #ReelectRosie #VoteLabour #VoteRosie
Would be nice just to have a hospital...
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Today, junior doctors in East Kent and across the country are taking industrial action. It’s clear that these strikes are only taking place because of a continued failure from ministers to get around the negotiating table with the British Medical Association to try and end the dispute.
Strikes are always a last resort, and it’s clear that junior doctors would much rather be treating patients than standing on a picket line. But against the backdrop of the fastest fall in real-wages on record, they need fair pay for a fair day’s work, and I completely understand the strength of feeling.
Instead of trying to blame striking health workers for the rise in waiting lists – which have continued to rise even when no staff have been on strike – ministers should have been negotiating a resolution to put patients and staff first. That’s why an incoming Labour government will sit down with junior doctors straight away, so we can negotiate an end to these strikes once and for all. ... See MoreSee Less
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My daughter is a farm vet and earns more than junior doctors. Doctors need pay restoration or more will leave for Australia.
There is no point whatsoever at this point in striking as no party can negotiate pre election. A disgrace!
So would you give them 35%
In the last parliament, I co-chaired a landmark cross-party parliamentary inquiry into birth trauma, which recently launched our report, working with the Birth Trauma Association.
We found that too many mothers and their families have been left with terrible physical and psychological consequences as a result of traumatic births, and we want to end the taboo that keeps these stories hidden. The Government accepted our recommendations, including the need for better maternity standards, an end to the ‘postcode lottery’, and a new Maternity Commissioner to improve healthcare for mothers and their babies. The Secretary of State also incorporated birth trauma into the Women’s Health Strategy.
Locally, I’ve worked with health ministers and affected local families following the publication of Dr Bill Kirkup’s report into East Kent Hospitals maternity services. Some have been through so much, and we owe it to them to ensure that Government continues to work with the Hospital Trust to transform maternity care in East Kent. ... See MoreSee Less
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My mum 56yrs ago suffered great trauma during my birth all these recent stories have brought it all back to her.she didnt feel she had a voice 56yrs ago to speak about the trauma
How do I get the re-elect Rosie Duffield for Canterbury boards that I’ve seen in the area? Asked via campaign page but no answer
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The NHS is on its knees. 7.5 million people are stuck on waiting lists, often in pain and misery. Labour will tackle this urgent crisis and get our NHS back on its feet by delivering more operations, appointments and diagnostic tests during the evening and at weekends.
We’ll do this by paying staff extra to do additional shifts out of hours. This will get people the treatment they desperately need, save the taxpayer money, and allow us to focus on reforming the NHS to make it fit for the future.
Five years ago, the Tories promised us a new hospital in Canterbury, but we’re further from delivery than ever. Ministers have ignored repeated bids for critical capital investment into local health services. We deserve better than pre-war infrastructure and fragmented services, and I will continue to fight for what we need, located close to home.
Labour will build an NHS fit for the future with these first steps:
• Cut NHS waiting times with 40,000 more appointments every week
• Double the number of cancer scanners
• A new Dentistry Rescue Plan
• 8,500 additional mental health staff
• The return of the family doctor ... See MoreSee Less
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The NHS is more than just Doctors and Nurses. We need post Hospital care, Occupational Therapist, Physio Therapist, Community Nurses and all the other wonderful people who work to keep us both physically and mentally healthy.
Dear Rosie Duffield With respect how does this save the taxpayers pounds? "We’ll do this by paying staff extra to do additional shifts out of hours. This will get people the treatment they desperately need, save the taxpayer money, and allow us to focus on reforming the NHS to make it fit for the future."
In a league table of per capita combined health service spending by country (public and private) we are near the top, but much further down when you look at results. In other words the NHS is expensive and inefficient. I don't see any policy, labour or conservative, which will reverse that.
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