Luciana Berger

I recently attended an event hosted by Merseyside and Cheshire Neurological Alliance to meet people living with neurological conditions and learn the issues that individuals, families and carers face. 

I met constituents who all had positive stories to tell about how the work of Merseyside and Cheshire Neuro Alliance assists them in living independent, active lives, despite [...]

Luciana with Professor Fields and Raj Jain, Chief Executive of Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital

On Monday I was delighted to be part of the launch of a new clinical trial into spotting and tackling the early signs of lung cancer, on the Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital site.

Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital is vital centre [...]

This week I helped support a major campaign in Liverpool Wavertree to prevent sales of alcohol and tobacco to children

The “No ID, No Sale” campaign ensures that only adults can buy lottery, alcohol and other age restricted goods, and I was pleased to back the campaign along with local newsagent Laxman Ramas outside Stoneycroft News on [...]

Luciana speaking to staff at the Royal over lunch

As part of a national Labour initiative, Members of Parliament are spending a day in their local hospitals to gain a full appreciation of the challenges and pressures our NHS frontline faces.

I spent the day at the Royal.  My morning was with the Social Work department, whose role [...]

Broadgreen School children handing in the British Lung Foundation petition to end passive smoking in cars

Today is No Smoking Day and I want to thank the students from Broadgreen School who I met with in Parliament recently.

I met children who were acting as British Lung Foundation’s young campaign champions at the launch of the British Lung [...]

Luciana appearing on the Daily Politics Show

On Monday, Parliament debated the Health and Social Care Bill and a consistent theme for the day was how dangerous the proposed reforms are.  The Tory-led reforms are going to deliver a market-led health service, without any trials or pilots to judge the effects of the reforms.

Even the NHS Chief Executive, [...]

A researcher at the Liverpool Lung Project – a research programme into the early detection of lung cancer funded by The Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation

Liverpool has some of the highest rates of cancer in England and the highest cancer death rate, which means there are 355 deaths more than average every year in the [...]

I have just left the Chamber in the House of Commons, where I asked the Secretary of State for Health, Andrew Lansley the following question about his reorganisations plans for the NHS:

“Laurence Buckman, Chair of the British Medical Association’s GP committee today described the government’s proposals as fatally flawed and warned they would ‘see [...]

“Several chemists and GPs’ surgeries in Merseyside have run out of the flu vaccine, leaving at-risk patients unable to obtain the jab. The Health Protection Agency has highlighted Liverpool as having significantly higher rates of swine flu than the English average.”

This is the start of my question in Parliament to the Secretary of State [...]