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# Hove MP supports Meningitis Matters
- URL: https://www.scenemag.co.uk/hove-mp-supports-meningitis-matters/
- Published: 2013-01-13T12:13:58.000Z
- Updated: 2013-01-13T12:13:58.000Z
- Description: Mike Weatherley, the Conservative MP for Hove and Portslade signed the Meningitis Matters Pledge as part of a public awareness drive on the life-threatening disease at a parliamentary receptions last week. The reception brought together parliamentarians as well as leading healthcare professionals to
- Author: Besi
- Tags: News, Politics

[![Mike Weatherley, MP](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/web-60014.jpg)](http://www.meningitisuk.org/?ref=scenemag.co.uk)

Mike Weatherley, MP

Mike Weatherley, the Conservative MP for Hove and Portslade signed the *Meningitis Matters* *Pledge* as part of a public awareness drive on the life-threatening disease at a parliamentary receptions last week.

The reception brought together parliamentarians as well as leading healthcare professionals to raise awareness of meningitis, particularly amongst children.

*Meningitis Matters* looks to raise awareness of meningitis and septicaemia, and to ensure that tackling the diseases remains a top public health priority while the current NHS reforms are implemented.

Meningitis remains a serious and life-threatening disease that affects around 3,400 people in the UK each year.

**Mike said:**

> *“Meningitis still kills far too many children and leaves many more with life-long disabilities. Although real progress has been made over the last decade, more needs to be done. Meningitis and septicaemia are terrible diseases which are vaccine-preventable so no child in Britain should be dying from them in the 21st century.”*

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