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SB on ward at SGH with Tim Underwood
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Steve Brine made the future of our NHS his number one priority from day one and has focused on the issue since he was first elected as our local Member of Parliament in May 2010.

He says; "I was clear health would be my priority and stayed true to my word, immersing myself in truly understanding the issues. You have to see the health economy across the entire area, to see how that fits together in the context of the NHS for the long-term benefit of patients and tax-payers.

"I always approach the issue calmly and in measured terms, as you should expect from a responsible and experienced Member of Parliament."

Steve is clear that his focus on the NHS is about secondary (ie; hospital) care but also encompasses primary care (GP services and community pharmacy), social and community care and mental health services which he is passionate about.

Hampshire Chronicle columns

Steve has written extensively about the NHS and other health matters via his monthly column in the Hampshire Chronicle newspaper over many years. You can access them as follows; August 2017 | January 2017 | October 2016 | Sept 2016 | Sept 2015 | June 2015 | February 2015 | August 2014 | Feb 2014 | all columns before this date are found here.

Below you can access related articles and content from more than a decade of Steve's work in this area ...

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HIV drug PrEP should be prescribed by GPs says MP

Friday, 22 January, 2021
Steve Brine has called for HIV prevention drug PrEP to be issued by GPs. Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), which HIV-negative people can take before sex to prevent transmission, was rolled out by NHS England in sexual health clinics last October, the final UK nation to fund the pill. Steve, who ser
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MP visits to Holiday Inn vaccination centre

Tuesday, 22 December, 2020
The latest Covid vaccination centre in our area has this morning come online. A group of six rural GP practices, operating as the Winchester Rural North & East Primary Care Network, are working together to deliver the Pfizer jab to over 80’s in a specially prepared part of the Holiday Inn at Mo
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MP sees first Covid vaccination centre

Friday, 11 December, 2020
Local MP Steve Brine dropped into Winchester's first Covid-19 vaccination centre thus afternoon. The facility is being run by Friarsgate Surgery and is a pop-up inside the Badger Farm Community Centre adjacent to Sainsbury's supermarket. Steve says; “It’s great we have this and I think I speak for

Call for hope in childhood cancer fight

Monday, 7 December, 2020
A very special debate was held in the House of Commons today focused on the battle with rare childhood cancers. Winchester & Chandler's Ford MP, Steve Brine, told the story of a little boy called Atticus from Winchester who lost his battle with DIPG (diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma)

MP on SmokeFree ambition for England

Thursday, 12 November, 2020
Local MP Steve Brine used his experience as a former Public Health Minister during a debate on tobacco control policy today. He spoke in a debate organised by the backbench business committee on England's ambition to be smoke-free by 2030 and the impact of Covid on that policy. It was led by City

MP speaks on breast cancer impact of pandemic

Thursday, 12 November, 2020
Winchester & Chandler’s Ford MP, Steve Brine, spoke about the consequences of Covid-19 on breast cancer patients during a Commons debate on Thursday 12 November. The MP, who previously served as Cancer Minister, said that although advances in research and investment have saved many lives some 1
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Locations shortlisted as possible hospital sites

Tuesday, 27 October, 2020
Two locations have been shortlisted as possible sites for a potential new acute centralised hospital in our area. Work to identify potential sites for a new hospital has been ongoing since October 2019, when the government announced that north and mid Hampshire would be one of the areas to benefit
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Clinical options unveiled for delivering future hospital services

Monday, 28 September, 2020
Six options for delivering future hospital services across north and mid Hampshire are being considered by local NHS organisations as part of the Hampshire Together: Modernising our Hospitals and Health Services programme. They have been published today as follows: Option B – Investment would be m
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RHCH receives £1.5m to improve A&Es for winter

Thursday, 13 August, 2020
The trust which runs Winchester hospital to set to receive over £1.5million to upgrade its accident and emergency facilities. It comes as part of a £300million package announced by Prime Minister Boris Johnson, to enable 117 trusts across the country prepare for winter. The £1,505,000 awarded to H
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Hampshire Chronicle column - HHFT's Hampshire Together

Thursday, 23 July, 2020
‘Be honest over hospital says MP’ read the headline on last week’s Hampshire Chronicle. Let me expand on that; starting with three indisputable truths. One; Hampshire Hospitals (which runs hospitals in Basingstoke and Winchester as well as a smaller community facility in Andover) are, along with o
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Hampshire Together

Find out more about this major programme looking at the future of health services, including at the RHCH..

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Health Select Committee

Our MP, Steve Brine, chairs the powerful Health & Social Care Select Committee in the House of Commons. You can see more here.

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BrineMinister

From June 2017 to March 2019 Steve was the Public Health Minister working at the heart of Government. See details here of his work across public health, primary care and prevention.

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Steve Brine Winchester and Chandler's Ford

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