Great to visit the new Digital Skills Hub at the Wilson Marriage Centre, Colchester. This project was funded by the UK Government's Colchester Town Deal Fund which I am delighted to have played a part in securing.
It was a pleasure to be a guest speaker at the MTG event to mark Medical Technology Awareness Week. It gave me an opportunity to share my thoughts and experience as a former Health and Social Care Minister on the importance of the Med Tech sector to UK PLC, for our NHS and for patients.
My first question from the backbenches since 2019! I asked Health & Social Care Minister Helen Whately MP for an update on progress against our manifesto commitment to recruit an additional 50,000 nurses.
Great to visit The Smile Clinic at 39 St Botolphs Street, Colchester to meet the principal dentist, Dr Prashar and his team. It was helpful to hear about some of the challenges NHS dentists are facing which I will raise with ministerial colleagues.
This morning I visited Triology nightclub on Colchester High Street. Many of you will have known the venue as The Hippodrome, Liquid and Atik over the years. It' under new ownership and has had a significant makeover.
Attending an event with the All Party Parliamentary Group for life sciences to discuss AMR (anti-microbial resistance) and the domestic and global work ongoing to tackle this silent pandemic. The UK is a global leader on AMR but there is always more than we can do domestically and globally.
Visiting the NHS Blood & Transplant West End Donor Centre in London to #giveblood - today was particularly special as I found out that my blood is an in demand type as it is used for newborn babies. I'm proud to be a neo donor.
