L-R: Dr Lisa Harrod-Rothwell, Ben Coleman MP and Dr Kyla Cranmer
Ben Coleman was first elected Labour MP for Chelsea and Fulham in 2024 and sits on Parliament’s Health and Social Care Select Committee (HSC). Prior to this he was a councillor in Hammersmith and Fulham for several years.
On 14 March LMC members met him at his office in Fulham and presented him with the Parliamentary Champion Award that he had one at our recent awards event, but not been able to collect on the day. Dr Lisa Harrod-Rothwell, our CEO-Designate and Dr Kyla Cranmer, Chair of Hammersmith and Fulham LMC attended the meeting.
The GPs raised:
- The value of having strong GP input into the Government’s 10 Year Plan, which will be scrutinised by the HSC when it is published.
- The importance of having services designed to meet local needs, with service design led by those who will be delivering care.
- How clinicians across the system feed into decision making, the role of patients and how these processes could be made to work better for everyone involved.
Dr Kyla Cranmer said: “We had a really productive meeting with Ben Coleman who clearly understood the importance of general practice in the future of the NHS, our central role within any organisational changes, and the need for local services to be created by the front line staff who deliver the care rather than a top down approach”.