Orpington Labour Party

Age Concern have a petition around the decision of Bromley Primary Care Trust not to cut the nails of people with healthy feet. You can contact Age Concern on 020 8315 1850 to sign the petition or log your views with the Public Relations Manager at Bassetts House on 01689 853339.

The Post Office public consultation proposes closing three post offices in Orpington. You can help save them by sending in your comments.

The Labour government’s massive injection of much needed resources into the NHS and the introduction of targets in health care standards have undoubtably been successful. The cut in waiting times has been dramatic and must have led to the saving of life. However such successes not only have to be balanced by problems occuring afterwards, and the distortions in some other treatments because of this, but also by the fact that in many cases the quality of treatment is still at the bottom of a Euro-comparison list.

At our recent AGM we agreed to move from our current Branch meeting and General Committee meeting structure to All Member meetings. This will allow all Orpington Labour Party members to attend a monthly CLP meeting, join in the discussion and take part in any vote.

At our AGM we elected new officers for the coming year. We are pleased to announce that Nigel de Gruchy, former General Secretary of NASUWT and TUC President, was elected as constituency Secretary.