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Friday, 13 October 2006
MP short-listed for 'health charity champion' award
Dartford MP, Dr Howard Stoate, has been short-listed for the ‘health charity champion’ award.

The annual charity champion awards, which recognises parliamentarians’ campaigning work in support of a range of good causes, is organised by ePolitix.com and is now in its fourth year. There are eight charity champion categories including Animal Welfare, Disability, Environment, Children and Youth, Education and Sport, International, Older People as well as Health.

The short-list of candidates, who have each been nominated by a leading UK charity, was announced by Cabinet Minister, Hilary Armstrong, on Wednesday. Dr Stoate is one of four parliamentarians on the short-list for health charity champion. He has been nominated by the Men’s Health Forum on account of his work as Chairman of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Men’s Health in raising the profile of men’s health issues in Parliament.

In its submission the MHF cited Dr Stoate’s backing for the screening of older men for abdominal aortic aneurysms, which kill 6,000 men a year, and his work highlighting the prevalence of suicide among young men. It also drew attention to the work he has done in Parliament to promote the annual National Men’s Health Week.


Commenting in the MHF’s submission, Professor Ian Banks, the President of the Men’s Health Forum said; “Political cynics are rife: so it is truly refreshing to see a politician put his head above the parapet when it comes to health. With the support of women’s and men’s health organisations, Howard Stoate tackled indifference.”


Professor Alan White of Leeds Metropolitan University, the world’s first professor of men’s health added, “highlighting the health challenges facing men all over the country, and calling on the government to act, shows what can be done when expertise and passion for a subject, along with the ability to communicate it to normal people, come together. Dr Stoate is a real champion for men’s health.”


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The short-list for health charity champion also includes Health Select Committee Chairman Kevin Barron, Tory backbencher John Bercow and Conservative peer Lord Swinfen.
 
To vote in the awards and for more information on each candidate and the award timetable visit www.charitychampionawards.com

 
 
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