Following Michael Fabricant’s question to the Prime Minister yesterday about the proposed closures of the Victoria Hospital in Lichfield and the Hammerwich Hospital in Burntwood, he has now written to the Prime Minister enclosing a briefing note written by the Chief Executive of the South Staffordshire Health Authority, Melvyn Ellis, showing an annual shortfall of […]

At a packed Prime Minister’s Questions today (3.30pm on 27th June), Michael Fabricant told Prime Minister Blair that on June 8th, just one day after the General Election, the South Staffordshire Health Authority announced their plans to close the Victoria Hospital in Lichfield and the Hammerwich Hospital in Burntwood in a bid to save £1 […]

In a wide ranging speech last night in the House of Commons before Gordon Brown, Chancellor of the Exchequer, leading for the Government, Michael Fabricant called for a cost benefit analysis to be undertaken of our membership of the European Union, but concentrated his speech on the closures of local hospitals in Lichfield and Burntwood. […]

Michael Fabricant and a small group of other MPs from the Labour Party and Liberal-Democrats are calling on the Government to implement a ban on the importation of products made with dog and cat fur. This follows a similar decision made by the United States Government. "Dog and cat fur is being used on a […]

Following pressure exerted by Michael Fabricant on Chris Green, Chief Executive of Virgin Trains, the Strategic Rail Authority and other bodies combined with the highly vocal and articulate protests of local commuters, Virgin have relented and have reinstated the early morning commuter run from Lichfield Trent Valley to Euston which was cancelled on the 21st […]

"We had constructive and frank talks this afternoon concerning the future of hospital care in Lichfield and Burntwood. However, there are still many areas concerning local health care over which we could not agree and which I will now pursue with Ministers in the Department of Health", said Michael Fabricant following his meeting in Lichfield […]

Michael Fabricant has hit out at the South Staffordshire Health Authority who, just hours after polls closed on the General Election, issued the report they had previously been denying: that the Hammerwich Hospital and Barton Hospital will close and the facilities at the Victoria Hospital will be halved and removed to a hospital to be […]

The increase in the Conservative majority in the Lichfield constituency from 238 in 1997 to 4,426 last night represents an increase of 6.2% in the share of vote (from 42.9% to 49.1% of the total vote cast) and a swing from Labour to Conservative of 5.1% – one of the largest swings from Labour to […]

Following the cancellation by Virgin on the 21st May of the 05:59 early morning commuter service from Lichfield Trent Valley to Euston and Michael Fabricant's intervention, Chris Green (Chief Executive of Virgin Trains) has told Michael that he and Mark Furlong (Commercial Director) will now be meeting Lichfield commuters at 9.15am on Wednesday 6th June […]

The South Staffordshire Health Authority will issue a report on June 8th (delayed from last year) which will announce the closure of the Hammerwich Hospital as soon as is practical with the loss of all bed places, and the closure of the Victoria Hospital which will be replaced with a smaller facility on the St […]