This week I travelled to London, to the Department of Health and Social Care, to brief the Health Minister and special adviser about Gloucestershire health bosses’ completely misconceived plans for getting rid of Cheltenham’s A&E.

Late last week I discovered that local NHS Trust managers were briefing others on plans to downgrade the A&E at Cheltenham General Hospital.

Following Alex Chalk’s intervention, Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust managers have paused publication of their plans to try and downgrade Cheltenham’s A&E services. 

Universal superfast broadband across Cheltenham has come a step closer following the latest intervention by Cheltenham MP Alex Chalk.

I warmly welcome the Government’s announcement that an additional 20,000 police officers will be recruited in England and Wales over the next three years. The recruitment drive will start as early as September with the launch of a national campaign.

Congratulations to Boris Johnson on his election as the new Prime Minister.

More investment for Cheltenham General Hospital! Last week I was delighted to visit the £2m+ Apollo theatre at CGH, just days before it opened to NHS patients.

This week I spoke to officials at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office to raise my concerns about the delays in the investigation into the Bournside coach crash in France.

Are you horrified by the amount of plastic that gets thrown into our environment?

Alex Chalk MP has joined forces with the Marine Conservation Society (MCS) and young environmental campaigners from Cheltenham schools to bring a state-of-the-art bottle deposit return machine to Cheltenham High Street this Friday, 28th June.