12 July 2024
Stephen Kinnock MP will be responsible for eye care in the new Labour government.
Kinnock will also oversee special educational needs and disabilities, community health, health and social care integration, dementia, hospital and community discharge, and adult social care.
Specific ministerial responsibilities were announced by the Department of Health and Social Care on Friday (12 July).
Karin Smyth MP has taken on the role of minister of state for health (secondary care), including elective care waiting lists and performance, medicines and prescribing, NHS data and technology, and overall responsibility for the NHS workforce.
Andrew Gwynne MP was confirmed as parliamentary under-secretary of state for public health and prevention earlier in the week.
Patient safety, women’s health and mental health will be overseen by parliamentary under-secretary of state, Baroness Merron.
See the full list of ministerial appointments in the Department of Health and Social care here.
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hilaryandmichael27 August 2024
Congratulations Mr Kinnock and best of luck in you being piggy in the middle between UK optometry who is keen to increase its involvement in Ophthalmology in primary care with an expectation in fair remuneration for the extra work involved, and the department of health and medical profession who are enthusiastically keen in wanting to pay us optometrists exactly ZILCH for the extra work, effort and responsibility that entails. Additionally our benefactor multiple optical companies are readily competing and scrambling to take on these extra clinical tasks to help their patients spend money in view of them giving away our services for free. A win lose situation for corporate greed and optometrists self respect respectively dont you think?
Better give up now Mr Kinnock-we don't work for nothing like training GP's or do we?
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