← All secretariatsA secretariat is the entity that does the operational work of an All-Party Parliamentary Group: drafts agendas, briefs MPs, sends out invitations, books rooms, writes reports. When the secretariat is a lobby firm or PR firm, the APPG is a paid channel for the firm’s clients to access MPs. The MPs officer the group, the firm supplies the staff and the policy line, the firm’s clients (listed under Funders below) pay for the privilege.
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Beyond Pills Alliance
https://beyondpillsalliance.org ↗APPGs operated
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- Beyond Pills All-Party Parliamentary GroupSubject Group
To move UK healthcare beyond an over-reliance on pills by combining social prescribing, lifestyle medicine, psychosocial interventions and safe deprescribing. As well as reducing unnecessary and inappropriate prescribing, this integrated approach will improve outcomes and reduce health inequalities
Officered by: Dr Simon Opher (Chair & Registered Contact), Lord Crisp (Co-Chair), Sadik Al-Hassan (Officer), Lord Bethell (Officer)