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To: Wes Streeting MP, Health Secretary
Fix allergy care as part of NHS reforms: appoint an Allergy Tsar
Our daughters’ deaths from allergy were entirely preventable.
As NHS England and the Health Department integrate, allergy care must not be left behind. It is therefore urgent that the Government appoints an Allergy Tsar now.
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Why is this important?
As mothers whose daughters’ deaths from allergy were entirely preventable, we are calling on the Health Secretary to appoint a national champion for people living with allergies - an Allergy Tsar.
Around 20 million people in the UK are living with allergic disease, yet allergy care still lacks national leadership. Currently, no single person has overall responsibility for allergy across government or the NHS. As a result, care is often patchy, inconsistent and people's access to clinics, timely diagnosis and healthcare support is often a postcode lottery. Allergy remains a “Cinderella service” in the NHS.
As NHS England and the Health Department integrate, this is a critical moment to act and ensure allergy care is not left behind as the NHS reforms.
An Allergy Tsar would lead a rapid review of NHS allergy services and data, identify gaps in care, and suggest improvements to better protect people living with allergies. As the NHS undergoes major reorganisation, we cannot miss this key opportunity to ensure allergy is properly considered. Without greater priority given to allergies, these problems will continue and more lives may be lost.
We cannot change what happened to our daughters, but with your support we can help protect future generations from preventable hospitalisations and tragedies.
Stand with us. Sign the petition and help push the Government to act.
