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Agency Healthcare Workers

EDM number 2205 in 2007-08, proposed by Alan Meale on 08/10/2008.
Categorised under the topics of Health staff and professions, Roads, Taxation and Training.

That this House is aware of the many agency healthcare workers who regularly drive to their patients' homes within communities; acknowledges that their jobs include such tasks as moving patients, handling them with hoists and other equipment, dealing with many varied physical disabilities including incontinence, Alzheimer's disease and other dementia-related illnesses and care of the dying; is aware that to carry this out they have to undergo educational training in social care and practice, emergency procedures, fire, health and safety, basic food hygiene, dementia care, diabetes, abuse awareness, palliative care and have to undergo a Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) check with their employers; is concerned that such medical carers are required to pay for a CRB check each time they change their job within the industry, rather than on an annual basis and have also to register with two separate bodies at a joint cost of £64 before being allowed to work in this sector; and believes that such over-charging practices should cease immediately and that ways should be found by the Government to charge lower annual road tax rates to this group of professionals whose work is imperative to the health and lifestyles of the people they serve.

This motion has been signed by a total of 26 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Alan Meale08/10/2008MansfieldLabourProposed
Rudi Vis08/10/2008Finchley and Golders GreenLabourSeconded
Bill Etherington08/10/2008Sunderland NorthLabourSeconded
Ann Cryer09/10/2008KeighleyLabourSeconded
David Taylor09/10/2008North West LeicestershireLabourSeconded
Andrew George09/10/2008St IvesLiberal DemocratSeconded
Nick Harvey09/10/2008North DevonLiberal DemocratSigned
Lynne Jones09/10/2008Birmingham, Selly OakLabourSigned
Gordon Marsden09/10/2008Blackpool SouthLabourSigned
Betty Williams13/10/2008ConwyLabourSigned
Mark Hunter13/10/2008CheadleLiberal DemocratSigned
Mike Hancock13/10/2008Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSigned
Ian Gibson13/10/2008Norwich NorthLabourSigned
Paul Flynn13/10/2008Newport WestLabourSigned
Kelvin Hopkins13/10/2008Luton NorthLabourSigned
Lindsay Hoyle14/10/2008ChorleyLabourSigned
Martin Caton14/10/2008GowerLabourSigned
David Drew14/10/2008StroudLabourSigned
Elfyn Llwyd15/10/2008Meirionnydd Nant ConwyPlaid CymruSigned
Ronnie Campbell15/10/2008Blyth ValleyLabourSigned
Peter Bottomley15/10/2008Worthing WestConservativeSigned
Eric Illsley16/10/2008Barnsley CentralLabourSigned
Ian McCartney16/10/2008MakerfieldLabourSigned
Adam Price20/10/2008Carmarthen East and DinefwrPlaid CymruSigned
Brian Jenkins21/10/2008TamworthLabourSigned
Alan Simpson22/10/2008Nottingham SouthLabourSigned

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