- 21/02/2025
- Posted by: Amanda Hack MP
- Category: News
As part of the plan to improve health outcomes, public health services will be given more money to deliver prevention programmes, tailored to their residents.
Amanda Hack MP has welcomed an increase in funding for public health services in Leicestershire, which is part of a £200 million national funding boost to the Public Health Grant. This represents the largest real-terms increase after nearly a decade of reduced spending under the previous government.
Leicestershire County Council is set to receive nearly £30 million to support essential health services, ranging from smoking cessation to children’s health, and to help fund family and school nurses, sexual health clinics, and other health services.
Amanda Hack said:
“As a passionate advocate for Public Health, and a county councillor who previously sat on the Health Scrutiny Committee for 5 years, I am delighted that we are continuing to fulfil our promise to enhance health outcomes for people across Leicestershire as part of our plan for change.
We must continue working together to deliver increased prevention-based support. This will give people better access to services and relieve pressure on more traditional care settings, enabling those who need the support of GPs or consultants to access those services. This funding will help drive key health initiatives in our community, continuing the move away from cure-lead care to preventing people from falling into ill health in the first place.
Having already met with many of our local GP practises and the North West Leicestershire GP Federation, I will continue working closely with our health teams to enhance services, continue cutting waiting lists, and improve the health of local people.”
The Government has been running a national conversation to help build a health service fit for the future and shape a new 10 Year Health Plan for England. The plan will set out how to focus on preventing sickness, not just treating it, with this investment supporting that aim.
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It was great to meet with Coats4Kids earlier this week🧥
They work with primary schools up and down the country to remove one specific barrier to children’s readiness to learn - delivering adequate winter coats to kids that need them.
Every child deserves to arrive at school warm, confident and ready to learn.
Coats4Kids provides brand-new winter coats to children in need discreetly, stigma-free and at no cost to families.
Listening to the passion that Peter and Angela have for this amazing charity was inspiring.
They offer so much support for families in our community, and you can find out more about the work they do here: www.coats4kids.org.uk/
I will be continuing to support them wherever possible, and thank them for all the incredibly hard work they’ve done so far.
They did say a huge thank you to all of the rotary clubs that have helped fundraise.
Rotary Club of Ashby de la Zouch Castle
Coalville Belvoir Rotary Club
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This government is determined to fight your corner when it comes to consumer protections. That’s why we’re transforming the energy market to ensure it works for you.
Energy consumers have had to put up with suppliers collapsing, the scandal of the forcefitting of pre-payment meters, delays to compensation claims, and poor customer service ranging from inaccurate billing to faulty smart meters. We are tackling this situation with sweeping changes to the regulator Ofgem, which include:
✅ Banning bosses’ bonuses in cases of wrongdoing
✅ Stronger powers for Ofgem to enforce consumer law directly
✅ Speeding up redress for customers
✅ Strengthening powers in unregulated sectors like heating oil
After more than a decade of allowing poor behaviour from energy companies to go unchallenged, this Labour government is committed to standing up for families and businesses and fighting their corner.
That’s alongside other measures announced this week to move faster towards cheap, clean power that we have control over to break the link between international gas price spikes and your bills.
That includes:
⚡️ New fixed contracts for low-carbon electricity generators to move them away from volatile global markets.
🏡 More social housing upgrades for better energy-efficient homes
☀️ New renewables on publicly owned land, brownfield and industrial sites
🚘 Making it easier to own EVs, install heat pumps and solar
📚 100 more schools to see GB Energy solar panels this summer
☢️ Expanding British Nuclear Power through small modular reactors
There is only one route to energy security and national security, and that is going further and faster on clean, homegrown power that we control.
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