This week, I managed to combine ambulances, doctors and cake, not in some dreadful baking-related accident, but during a visit to Market Lavington to see some of the small but significant ways that health services are improving in our constituency.

Since becoming your MP in 2010 I have campaigned for better local health services and have been delighted to see the steady expansion of patient care at Savernake Hospital in Marlborough.

Now real changes are happening in Devizes with all of the local GP surgeries coming together to sponsor an Emergency Care Practitioner team who visit patients needing urgent care early in the day, liaise with the local GP to assess and treat medical conditions and transport people to hospital if needed.

As a result of the new service more patients can be seen at home, people can be treated earlier in the day and any hospital visits are made earlier, which reduces the chances of being admitted to hospital overnight. One of the ways that the former Primary Care Trust (which this government abolished) was able to renege on its commitment to build a new Primary Care Centre in Devizes was to blame the local GPs for not working together.

Well, now there is brilliant teamwork across all the surgeries and I am working with all the local GPs, NHS England and the managing Clinical Commissioning group to bring a Primary Care Centre to the town as soon as possible.

So where does the cake come in? On Friday I also visited 91-year-old Mr James Heaven from the village who was a very satisfied patient of the new ECP service and quite unexpectedly gave me a lemon drizzle cake that he had made himself as well as a tour of his photos and memorabilia from his time in the Army.

The cake was wonderful, as were the memories shared and Mr Heaven was very much in my mind this week as I listened to the Prime Minister make a cast-iron pledge to Britain’s pensioners that the Conservatives will continue to increase the state pension, take a million pensioners out of tax, and protect pensioner benefits including the free bus pass, TV licence and winter fuel payment.

It is right that those who have worked hard all their lives deserve security in retirement and more vital than ever that Britain has a strong economy so we can protect and improve the NHS that serves all of us so well.