“Today, MPs face a choice, a difficult one, about how we handle the final months of this pandemic. While Labour will be abstaining in the vote on the tier system, a complete dereliction of duty, I will be taking my responsibility seriously.”

“I know continued restrictions will be tough, especially given the efforts we have already gone to this year, but we can’t relent now, we can’t let our guard down, we must continue to follow the rules in order to drive down the infection rate further.”

“I am cautiously optimistic the infection rate in Redditch is now falling and heading in the right direction. However, this doesn’t mean we can let our guard down.”

From October, as part of improvements to urgent and emergency care services, the County’s hospitals, including the A&E at the Alex, have been selected to be an early implementer of a national programme called NHS 111 First.

“After five long years, the announcement that Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is finally out of special measures is a huge milestone.”

“I believe we have made a big step forward in fighting for what’s best for the Alex.”

Plans to return services to the Alexandra Hospital have been bolstered after Rachel’s lobbying efforts secured £3 million for the expansion of medical training facilities in Worcestershire.

The NHS is already protected by specific carve outs, exceptions and reservations in these trade negotiations. So I didn’t vote to not protect the NHS because our National Health Service is already protected.

We were making progress and huge strides in unlocking Redditch’s full potential – but we must now redouble our efforts in the wake of coronavirus.

In Dudley today (June 30th), Prime Minister Boris Johnson set out an ambitious economic strategy to rebuild Britain, putting jobs, skills and infrastructure investment at the heart of the Government’s economic recovery post-coronavirus.