Everything about Independent Kidderminster Hospital And Health Concern totally explained
Independent Kidderminster Hospital and Health Concern (often known by the shorter name
Health Concern) is a
political party based in
Kidderminster,
United Kingdom. It grew out of the campaign to restore the casualty unit at Kidderminster Hospital, and the
National Health Service is still its primary focus, but the party has since diversified.
The party has one
MP in the
House of Commons,
Dr Richard Taylor, who won a surprise landslide victory in the
2001 general election standing for the
Wyre Forest constituency, which includes Kidderminster. He was the only MP elected as an Independent in the 2001 Parliament (but see
George Galloway and
Andrew Hunter). Taylor was re-elected as member for Wyre Forest in the
2005 election, albeit with a considerably reduced majority, making him the first Independent to retain his seat since 1949. On both occasions, Health Concern benefited from a decision by the
Liberal Democrats not to put up a candidate of their own.
Health Concern is also active in local government, although it has lost much support in recent years. Before the
2004 local elections, it held 16 seats on
Wyre Forest district council, making it the single biggest party, but in those elections it lost half of these seats to the
Conservative Party. The 2005
local elections for
Worcestershire County Council, held on the same day as the general election, also saw Health Concern perform poorly, losing five of its six seats. However, in
2006 local elections for the district council, it held its own, making one net gain to take its representation from eight to nine. Above that, in the May 2007 local elections, their representation was again increased from nine to 10 members.
According to the
Electoral Commission's register of parties, its leader is Taylor, Peter Young is the nominating officer, Keith Robertson is treasurer, and Howard Martin is campaigns officer. The party doesn't have a formal membership. It had expenditure of about £12,000 and income of about £9,000 in the 2005 calendar year. [http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/files/dms/IndependentKidderminsterHospitalandlocalhealthconcern_20487-15082
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