The Government want to devolve health powers to elected Mayors.
People in certain parts of central #Peterborough are dying ten years earlier than people living in more prosperous parts of the City and rural villages. This is a pattern repeated across Cambridgeshire.
The reasons are complex - housing, secure employment and lifestyle. Solutions aren’t easy and I hate the nannying state.
But if elected this will be a focus.
I went to meet Kidney Research UK in Peterborough recently to discuss.