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Tessa Jowell
Tessa Jane Helen Douglas Jowell, Baroness Jowell (néePalmer 17 September 1947 – 12 May 2018) was an English Labour Partypolitician.
Jowell was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Dulwich and West Norwood from 1992 to 2015. Her most senior position in Government was as Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, a post she held from 2001 to 2007.
Jowell member of both the Blair and Brown Cabinets, she was also Minister for the Olympics (2005–2010) and Shadow Minister for the Olympics and Shadow Minister for London until September 2012, resigning after the London Olympic Games.
In September 2015, she was unsuccessful in seeking to be selected as the Labour Party's official candidate in the 2016 election for Mayor of London, coming second to Sadiq Khan in the contest of six candidates.[1]
In September 2017, Jowell announced she had been diagnosed with brain cancer.[2] Jowell died on 12 May 2018 in Shipston-on-Stour, Warwickshire of a cerebral hemorrhage caused by the disease at the age of 70.[3]
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Tessa Jowell
Dame Tessa was a founding member of King’s Circle of Cultural Fellows and a passionate advocate for arts and culture who was respected across the political spectrum.
Dame Tessa Jowell served as a Member of Parliament for 23 years, including 13 years as a Minister in the Labour Government and eight in the Cabinet. Dame Tessa led the setting up of OFCOM, the foundation of Sure Start and London's successful bid to host the 2012 Olympic Games.
During her early career, Dame Tessa worked at the Maudsley Hospital as a psychiatric social worker from 1972 to 1974, before moving into the voluntary sector as Assistant Director of the mental health charity Mind and Director of a community care special action project in Birmingham. From then until her election to parliament in 1990, Dame Tessa worked for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and was a Senior Visiting Fellow at health and social care charity, the King’s Fund.
Dame Tessa was made a member of the Privy Council in 1998 and a dame in 2012. She joined the House of Lords in 2015 and took up a number of academic appo
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In May 2017, Dame Tessa Jowell, former Labour MP and Culture Secretary, was diagnosed with a grade 4 glioblastoma. During the final months of her life, Tessa selflessly dedicated her energy and efforts into campaigning for change for brain tumour treatment funding and research.
Tessa was particularly struck by
- Lack of treatment options available to patients
- Lack of progress in research and available treatment
- Inequality of access to treatment across the UK
Tessa was passionate about
- Patients having access to the “latest and greatest science”
- People coming together and unifying efforts to create change
Tessa Jowell and her daughter Jess Mills
On the 25th of January 2018, Tessa gave a moving and seminal speech in the House of Lords about her cancer diagnosis and treatment. She made a call for action and called for ‘greater collaboration’ and the use of ‘adaptive trials’ to give patients access to innovative treatments. She quoted Seamus Heaney and said: “Noli timere, do not be afraid” She followed by saying, “I am not afraid, but I am fearful that this new
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