Arranging a meeting with your local MP is a great way to campaign for better hepatitis C awareness and care, or to explain personal problems you might be having with your PCT or local health services. MPs are keen to engage with their constituents, and you can usually arrange a meeting by calling up their local office and asking for an appointment.
When you meet your MP, make sure you are clear about what you want to talk about. Our MP briefing can help to prepare you. You could download a copy to give to your MP, so they know the facts about hepatitis C.
Make sure you use the meeting to ask your MP to do something positive to help you or hepatitis C patients in general. For example, you could ask them to:
- Join the All Party Parliamentary Group for Hepatology
- Sign EDM 181 on hepatitis C
- Write to their PCT to ask them what action they have taken in implementing the Government’s Hepatitis C Action Plan for England
- Write to the Public Health Minister in support of a mass media awareness campaign and more investment in hepatology services
- Assist you in receiving support from your local health services or social services if you have had problems in the past.
