The Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has reformed his Shadow Health team as part of a wider reshuffle to ensure the Opposition has their best team in place for the next election in under 18 months.
New members of the Shadow Health team are as follows:
- Abena Oppong-Asare – Shadow Minister for Women’s Health and Mental Health
- Andrew Gwynne – Shadow Minister for Social Care
- Preet Gill – Shadow Minister for Primary Care and Public Health
- Feryal Clark – Shadow Minister for Primary Care and Patient Safety
- Karin Smyth – Shadow Minister for Health
Andrew Gwynne MP moves to his new role in social care having occupied the Shadow Public Health brief, now helmed by Preet Kaur Gill MP. Ms Gill, the first Sikh female MP, has been an MP since 2017 and has been a Shadow International Development Minister for the last three years.
Karin Smyth MP has been officially appointed the Shadow Minister for Health, having recently held the role temporarily during Liz Kendall MP’s maternity leave. The latter has joined the Shadow Cabinet as Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary.
As part of the wider reshuffle, Dr Peter Kyle MP became the Shadow Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology.
BIVDA has sent welcome letters to Mr Kyle and all of the Shadow Health team and made it very clear that we look forward to engaging with them to better understand how a future Labour government would bolster the diagnostics industry.
