I am urging MPs to consider patients current quality of care in reading of Assisted Dying Bill. Assisted dying is a controversial subject for many, and I welcome debate on the issue. However, as a local representative and GP, I believe we are failing in our responsibility to those living with critical illnesses. My view

Great honour to speak at Royal College of General Practitioners GP Registrar Conference “Empowering Tomorrow’s GPs” to discuss inequalities and our role. My key message: If you believe in wanting to change the world then be the change and make it happen, don’t wait for the change to happen. Speak truth to power. It’s not

This morning a series of services took place across our borough, to commemorate those who lost their lives in two world wars and more than 70 other conflicts. I was honoured as First Citizen of Oldham to join this years Remembrance Sunday event in our Town Centre, laying a wreath at the Oldham War Memorial.

It was an honour to join The Royal British Legion Royton Branch this morning at Royton Park’s War Memorial for a moving Remembrance event. School children from Fir Bank and Thorp Primary School joined us and laid wreaths which they have made at school. They also read some touching poems in memory of Royton’s fallen.