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Eddisbury MP & Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for International Development, Stephen visited Sierra Leone between 29th July and 5th August, in the first visit to Sierra Leone by a member of the new Coalition Government.
9 August 2010
Stephen O'Brien addresses the Global Student Forum
Minister for International Development, Stephen O’Brien yesterday urged young people to join the global challenge to get 72 million children from developing countries into school.
30 June 2010
O’Brien: We need reform of care system - not death taxes
Commenting on Friday’s Health Select Committee report into Social Care, Stephen said "“That a Labour dominated committee is this critical of the government, makes the charges all the more powerful".
12 March 2010
Labour attempts to lock in wasteful NHS IT contracts says Shadow Health Minister Stephen O'Brien
On File on 4 tonight Stephen will challenge the Government on the negotiations they are holding with NHS IT suppliers in an attempt to reset the £12.7 billion contracts by the end of March, tying the hands of both taxpayers & the next Government.
2 March 2010
Shadow Health Minister Stephen O’Brien says Labour have let down dementia sufferers
“Labour Ministers have been strongly criticised for their failure to tackle the growing problem of dementia. Not only have they failed current sufferers, their lack of spending on research is failing future sufferers and their loved ones". said Stephen
3 February 2010
Record number of patients starving on NHS wards says Shadow Health Minister Stephen O'Brien
New figures uncovered by the Conservatives have found that the number of patients leaving hospital malnourished has risen by record levels in the last year.
21 January 2010
Scandal of 11,000 people forced to sell homes for substandard care
Commenting on the Care Quality Commission’s report into Social Care, Shadow Health Minister, Stephen said: It is unacceptable that 1 in 4 care homes in England provide poor or only adequate service, and that some councils are slipping back.
3 December 2009
Labour do not have the answers on care for the elderly says Shadow Health Minister, Stephen O'Brien
Commenting on the publication of the Government’s Personal Care at Home Bill, Shadow Health & Social Care Minister, Stephen said: “Labour have also refused to come clean on what they plan to cut in order to find the money for this.
25 November 2009
Stephen O’Brien, Shadow Health Minister says Labour must do more to help dementia sufferers
Responding to the Alzheimer’s Society report Shadow Health Minister Stephen O’Brien said: "If people with Dementia are spending too much time in hospital unnecessarily it is bad for them and bad for our NHS.
16 November 2009
We must learn lessons from anti-psychotic scandal says Stephen O'Brien MP, Shadow Health Minister