As closing down sales begin in Woolworths 815 stores, South Lakes MP Tim Farron has called on the North West Regional Development Agency to provide help, skills and further training to any Woolworths staff who are made redundant.
South Lakes MP Tim Farron has this week written to the board of the University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Trust formally asking them to bring chemotherapy services to the Westmorland General Hospital as part of the wider bid for a cancer treatment centre.
South Lakes Tim Farron MP has welcomed an order by the Competition Commission to improve competition in the Liquid Petroleum Gas (LPG) market, which he says is disadvantaging some rural communities.
MP Tim Farron has described the NHS dentist system as being in "crisis", after new figures released by the NHS revealed that over 22,000 fewer people in Cumbria saw an NHS dentist after the introduction of the new dental contract.
More shocking evidence has come to light about the inability of the Royal Lancaster Infirmary's A&E department to cope with the increased level of admissions since the closure of acute medical services at the Westmorland General Hospital in Kendal.
MP for Westmorland and Lonsdale Tim Farron spoke yesterday at a meeting of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Dementia to back a new Inquiry into the failure to provide adequate training for people working in the care sector who deal with people with dementia. Mr Farron has also demanded a more cohesive national dementia strategy, after figures obtained by the Liberal Democrats revealed that more than 60% of people suffering from dementia remain undiagnosed.
