A major Government review of local hospital services is underway, which is likely to see vital specialist hospital services moved away from Hammersmith Hospitals to Paddington.

Shaun Bailey and local Conservatives are fighting hard to keep both Hammersmith Hospital and Charing Cross Hospital fully open, with all of their existing services.

Local Conservatives believe that Charing Cross Hospital should be designated the major trauma centre for west London. It is the most accessible hospital with the busiest Accident and Emergency (A&E) department in west London and already handles more than two thirds of the emergency admissions of the Hammersmith Hospitals NHS Trust.

Shaun Bailey has backed calls for new powers for school head teachers to restore school discipline and impose proper codes of behaviour. Conservatives have set out a series of measures to restore respect among hard-to-teach children. The action plan includes:

• an end to appeals panels that overrule expulsions and second-guess head teachers’ decisions to exclude pupils. Parents should still have a right of appeal to school governors,
• making home-school contracts enforceable, as requirements of admission and grounds for exclusion,
• protecting teachers from spurious allegations, giving them anonymity until their case has been concluded.

As someone who spends his life working with difficult people in difficult places Shaun Bailey understands that violent crime and anti-social behaviour are dragging the place down.

Shaun argues that there needs to be a fresh approach. This includes more police officers on the beat, 24/7, which is being piloted by the local Conservative Council. But it also involves a greater focus on those issues that encourage people to turn to crime in the first place.