All-Party Parliamentary Health Group

All-Party Parliamentary Health Group information

The All-Party Parliamentary Health Group (APHG) is an all-party forum dedicated to disseminating knowledge, generating debate and facilitating engagement on health issues amongst Members of Parliament. Policy Connect provides the secretariat for All-Party Parliamentary Group on Health (APHG), supporting the group’s activities. We are committed to ensuring our actions and funding are entirely transparent.

People

All People

Role	Title	Political party
Chair & Registered Contact	Dr. Simon Opher MP	Labour
Officer	Baroness Mary Watkins	Crossbench
Officer	Lord James Bethell	Conservative
Officer	Kevin McKenna MP	Labour
Member	Maya Ellis MP	Labour
Member	Seamus Logan, MP	Scottish National Party
Member	Melanie Ward, MP	Labour
Member	Greg Stafford , MP	Conservative
Member	Lillian Jones, MP	Labour
Member	Susan Murray, MP	Liberal Democrat
Member	Sadik Al-Hassan MP	Labour
Member	Lizzi Collinge , MP	Labour
Member	Allison Gardner, MP	Labour
Member	Pippa Heylings, MP	Liberal Democrat
Member	Lewis Atkinson, MP	Labour
Member	Steve Race, MP	Labour
Member	Alex McIntyre, MP	Labour
Member	Cat Eccles, MP	Labour
Member	Warinder Juss, MP	Labour
Member	Sojan Joseph, MP	Labour
Member	Peter Prinsley, MP	Labour
Member	Ben Coleman, MP	Labour
Member	Beccy Cooper, MP	Labour
Member	Baroness Finlay of Llandaff	Crossbench
Co-Chair	Baroness Walmsley	Liberal Democrat
Member	Rachael Maskell, MP	Labour
Member	Baroness Grey-Thompson	Crossbench
Member	Bell Ribeiro-Abby, MP	Labour
Member	Marsha de Cordova MP	Labour
Member	Grahame Morris, MP	Labour
Member	Jill Pitkeathley, MP	Labour
Member	Baroness Margaret Ritchie	Non-affiliated
Member	Yasmin Qureshi, MP	Labour
Member	Baroness Hollins	Crossbench
Member	Preet Kaur Gill, MP	Labour
Member	The Baroness Jenkin of Kennington	Conservative
Member	Jim Dickson, MP	Labour
Member	Lord Taylor of Warwick	Non-affiliated
Member	Shockat Adam, MP	Independent
Member	Matt Turmaine, MP	Labour
Member	Amanda Hack, MP	Labour
Member	Sir Bernard Jenkin, MP	Conservative
Member	Helen Maguire, MP	Liberal Democrat

Contacts

Registered contact

Dr. Simon Opher MP

simon.opher.mp@parliament.uk

Public Enquiry Point

Jasmin Adebisi

jasmin.adebisi@policyconnect.org.uk

About APHG

The All-Party Parliamentary Health Group (APHG) is an all-party forum dedicated to disseminating knowledge, generating debate and facilitating engagement on health issues amongst Members of Parliament.

Policy Connect provides the secretariat for All-Party Parliamentary Group on Health (APHG), supporting the group’s activities. We are committed to ensuring our actions and funding are entirely transparent. Policy Connect’s work in supporting the APHG is funded through a combination of annual fees for membership of Policy Connect and ad hoc sponsorship of particular events and research, all of which is declared on the official Parliamentary Register of All-Party Groups. We also publish a full list of all of Policy Connect’s funders in bands on our website.

The APHG aims to provide a cross-party forum that brings together parliamentarians and senior health leaders to discuss key issues on the NHS, health reform and future trends. The agenda and activities of the APHG is set by its Parliamentary Officers, and Policy Connect has full editorial control over the outputs from work produced as a result of this agenda, such as reports. The APPG operates according to the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards’ rules on All-Party Parliamentary Groups and its own Code of Governance.

Policy Connect does not represent the business interests of any of our over 150 funders or wider stakeholders. We do contact Ministers on behalf of APPGs, forums and commissions in the form of invitations to speak at events, attend meetings or to submit a research inquiry to assist with Government policy development. For this reason, we are on the Register of Consultant Lobbyists, and welcome the transparency this register provides.

This is not an official feed of the House of Commons or the House of Lords. It has not been approved by either House or its committees. All-Party Parliamentary Groups, forums and commissions are informal groups of Members of both Houses with a common interest in particular issues. The views expressed in the webpages are those of the groups.

Transparency statement

Policy Connect provides the secretariat for the All-Party Parliamentary Health Group (APHG), supporting the group’s activities. We are committed to ensuring our actions and funding are entirely transparent. Policy Connect’s work in supporting the APHG is funded through a combination of annual fees for membership of Policy Connect and ad hoc sponsorship of particular events and research, all of which is declared on the official Parliamentary Register of All-Party Groups. We also publish a full list of all of Policy Connect’s funders in bands on our website.

The APHG aims to disseminate knowledge, generate debate and facilitate engagement on health issues amongst Members of Parliament. The agenda and activities of the APHG is set by its Parliamentary Officers, and Policy Connect has full editorial control over the outputs from work produced as a result of this agenda, such as reports. The APPG operates according to the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards’ rules on All-Party Parliamentary Groups and its own Code of Governance.

Policy Connect does not represent the business interests of any of our over 100 funders or wider stakeholders. We do contact Ministers on behalf of APPGs, forums and commissions in the form of invitations to speak at events, attend meetings or to submit a research inquiry to assist with Government policy development. For this reason, we are on the Register of Consultant Lobbyists, and welcome the transparency this register provides.