SNP - LISA CAMERON

It was a privilege to work in our local NHS for over 20 years, specialising in mental health and learning disability prior to entering parliament as your MP in 2015.

My parliamentary priority is and always has been health. That’s why I believe our NHS should not be used as a political football, undermining the work of our clinicians who provide such great care.

Experience shows that evidence-based policy derives from cross-party consensus on best practice and long-term planning.

That is why I have been proud to serve as a member of the Commons Health and Social Care Select Committee and to hold the positions of Chair of both the Health and Disability All Party Parliamentary Groups at Westminster. In this capacity, I have been scrutinising the need across the UK for increased child and adolescent mental health services, training of local doctors/nurses particularly for rural practices, guidance for prescribing of medicinal cannabis and ensuring that we maintain crucial medicines in the face of a hard Brexit.

My dedication to our NHS means you can always trust me to do everything possible to protect it, particularly in the face of potential Trump trade deal with Boris Johnson’s Tories.

Many will be aware I have championed the development of local mental health services including EK’s Agape Wellbeing and Talk Now projects, Chapelton’s Darcy’s Equine Assisted Learning and Stonehouse’s Trust Jack Foundation.

Older adults too face many stressors including coming to terms with disability, medical conditions such as Parkinson’s, becoming carers or experiencing bereavement.

Provision of adequate social care must therefore be Government’s priority and will be mine for the next parliamentary term.