Biography
Alison Bennett has engaged extensively on health and social care through 40 debate speeches, with a particular focus on NHS service pressures and access to care. Her contributions span diverse topics including corridor care, GP access, maternity services, dental provision, and cardiovascular disease prevention, often drawing on constituent experiences to illustrate systemic challenges. She has also highlighted public health issues including vaccination rates, newborn screening for spinal muscular atrophy, and gender identity services for young people.
Generated from their own Hansard record, below
“…Many of us know what the 8 am rush for a GP appointment can be like, so the fact that there is an alternative trusted high-street healthcare service where people can walk in, speak to a professional and receive advice and treatment is enormously valuable.”
Record by topic
- Unpaid carers3rd of 28375.0
- Mental health47th of 88072.0
- Public health & prevention21st of 68839.0
- Palliative & end of life care34th of 56839.0
- Learning disability & autism88th of 89936.0
- NHS & care workforce/staffing12th of 30221.0
- Cancer66th of 62221.0
- Hospital discharge / bed-blocking6th of 13921.0
- Adult social care & reform20th of 37621.0
- A&E & ambulance response15th of 25821.0
- NHS waiting lists72nd of 53415.0
- Children's health9th of 15715.0
- Health inequalities28th of 28812.0
- Dementia18th of 25112.0
- Dentistry access32nd of 19412.0
- Maternity & neonatal68th of 43812.0
- Heart disease & stroke41st of 3989.0
- Rare diseases28th of 2029.0
- Elderly care & frailty76th of 2363.0
- Assisted dying193rd of 3713.0
- Care home closures & provider failure13th of 473.0
- Respiratory (asthma/COPD)47th of 1423.0
- Diabetes68th of 1903.0
- GP access93rd of 2413.0
What they’ve said
“…Online medical disinformation is a genuine threat to public health, and it is increasingly being given a platform by people who should know better. Reform has refused to condemn Donald Trump’s conspiracy theories linking vaccines to autism. As was noted by the hon.”
Vaccination Rates: England · 2026-09-03 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…Let me therefore end with a plea that we never describe corridor care as the “new normal”, because there is nothing normal about receiving intravenous antibiotics during chemo in a corridor. There is nothing normal about waiting 19 hours on a trolley.”
NHS Corridor Care · 2026-07-08 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…Allin-Khan) for setting out so brilliantly, with her professional expertise and human touch, what it means for corridor care to be a normal habit across the NHS in all parts of the country—not just in the winter, with winter pressures, but throughout the year.”
NHS Corridor Care · 2026-07-08 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…My constituent, Catherine Jeater, has seen corridor care as a patient and as a relative of a patient. She watched her father being treated for appendicitis in an emergency department that was so overcrowded that patients were double-parked on trolleys, changing into hospital gowns in full view of strangers.”
NHS Corridor Care · 2026-07-08 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…Like so many families across the country, mine has its own history of heart disease, either with tragic, early death or, for my father, a triple heart bypass in 2012. He celebrated his 80th birthday this year.”
Heart Disease and Stroke: Premature Deaths · 2026-07-02 · Read on Hansard ↗
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