Greg Mulholland, MP for Leeds North West, is one of the MPs behind the cross party initiative calling for a cross party NHS and Care Convention, to address the current NHS crisis and to agree a long-term strategic plan for the future funding of the NHS and social care provision.

Greg is one of twenty MPs who have signed signing an open letter to the Prime Minister, calling on her and the Government to set up the convention. The cross-party ‘NHS and Care Convention’ will seek to, “examine the future funding requirements of these cherished services and agree a new, long-term settlement to guarantee their sustainability for future generations and to ensure that this country has one of the best health and care systems in the world.” The initiative is being spearheaded by Liberal Democrat Health Spokesperson Norman Lamb MP and is also signed by the Conservative MP Sarah Wollaston, the Chair of the Health Select Committee and by other Liberal Democrat, Conservative and Labour MPs.

In the last parliament, Greg co-sponsored an Early day Motion calling for a Royal Commission to look into how best the NHS should be funded and organised.

Greg Mulholland MP commented:

“The NHS and social care system desperately needs a long-term strategy to ensure it is properly funded and appropriately organised and delivers the health and care for the nation in the 21st century. It is clear that in some areas, there is a NHS crisis that needs dealing with both in the short term but also long term and an NHS and Care Convention is needed to do this.

“Securing the best future for the NHS and the social care system are huge issues and ones that must be addressed by everyone and by all political parties working together.”

“For all of us who care passionately about the NHS, we need to work together to secure its future and to address the growing social care crisis that has been ignored for too long. I am pleased to support Norman Lamb’s initiative and will continue to work with him and MPs in parties to press the Government to accept that a different way of approaching this is needed and to get them to agree to set up a NHS and Café Convention”.