The UK should be one of the healthiest countries in the world. Yet our country has the worst healthy life expectancy in Western Europe.
Hundreds of NHS ambulance staff across the country are waiting to complete essential driver training, new data from the Liberal Democrats has shown. This is despite dangerous delays to response times and a shortage of ambulance drivers.
A Freedom of Information investigation by the Liberal Democrats has found hospitals with chemicals leaking in patient areas and others with multiple broken fire alarms.
Lib Dem research has revealed that fewer than one-in-two children saw an NHS dentist last year, while only a third of adults did in the past two years.
New research published by the Liberal Democrats has revealed the impact of the social care crisis on the NHS in Somerset with medically fit patients left stuck in hospital beds waiting for care.
The Liberal Democrats are proud to be champions of the NHS.
The Carer’s Leave Bill sponsored by Scottish Liberal Democrat North East Fife MP Wendy Chamberlain has now passed all its stages in the United Kingdom Parliament and will become law.
The Lib Dem Bill will give an estimated 2.4 million carers across the UK a statutory right to take five days of unpaid leave per year, helping carers to better balance work and care.