Crime continues to fall in Putney
The table above is one I produce every month on my website showing, council ward-by-ward, the number and types of crime committed in the constituency. The green figures show where crime is down or the same as last month; red ones indicate an increase. As I hope the table shows Putney is an incredibly safe place to live: every single ward bar Thamesfield (Putney town centre) has crime levels substantially below London as a whole. And the great news is that crime is going down - if you look at my reports going back almost a year that has been a steady trend. One of the big reasons for this excellent record is the hard work of our Safer Neighbourhood Police (SNTs): teams of up to six officers in every single council ward building links with the community and working hard on grassroots crime like dangerous dogs, drug dealing and anti-social behaviour. The SNTs are an initiative introduced by Labour in 2000, opposed by the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats. Every team holds regular local policing panel meetings or surgeries in their wards which I attend as often as possible. There is a real dislocation between the reality that Putney is safe and the impression a lot of residents have. When I asked residents of the Southfields Grid, where crime has fallen massively in the past ten years and is one of the safest parts of the constituency, 57% believed crime had gone up and 56% felt less safe than when they moved in. Roehampton is perceived as one of the most crime-ridden areas in London: yet crime there is below the London average and again has fallen sharply since our Safer Neighbourhood teams have gone to work. There are several causes of this disconnect between people's worries and the reality - Putney Conservatives, who never cease to attack and undermine our Safer Neighbourhood Police, are one of them. We need far more responsible reporting of the reality of a safe, secure and relatively crime-free community. Free prescriptions for cancer patients
99.9% of patients suspected by their GP of having cancer are now seen by a consultant within two weeks of that referral. Waiting times have plummeted thanks to Labour investment in our NHS and our tough targets which the Conservatives want to scrap. Under the Tories, average NHS waiting times were 18 months. Today, with Labour, they are 18 weeks. Our new plan to make drugs that keep cancer in remission or give sufferers those vital extra months is a further major step forward and I look forward to the time when we can widen free prescriptions to other life-threatening and serious illnesses.
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I was in Manchester a few days ago for Labour's Conference. One of the practical steps we announced was free prescriptions for anyone suffering from cancer. 
