Biography
Anneliese Dodds has engaged extensively with health and social care topics through 19 debate speeches, with particular focus on maternity and neonatal care standards, mental health considerations in end-of-life legislation, and public health prevention efforts. She raised concerns about inconsistent maternity triage standards across NHS trusts and their implementation, examined the interaction between mental disorder and mental capacity in assisted dying legislation—drawing on international comparisons—and contributed to discussions on polio prevention as a public health champion. Her contributions demonstrate sustained engagement across multiple health policy areas within parliamentary debate rather than through targeted written questions.
Generated from their own Hansard record, below
“The lack of national maternity triage standards has been of huge concern to a number of my constituents, in some cases through bitter and heartbreaking experience. The Secretary of State said that NHS England would be responsible for rolling out and monitoring triage standards.”
Record by topic
- Mental health290th of 88012.0
- Maternity & neonatal68th of 43812.0
- Public health & prevention125th of 68812.0
- Palliative & end of life care158th of 5689.0
- Assisted dying116th of 3716.0
- Learning disability & autism654th of 8993.0
- NHS waiting lists323rd of 5343.0
What they’ve said
“It is such a pleasure to speak in this debate with you in the Chair, Mr Twigg. I am grateful to my hon. Friend the Member for Preston (Sir Mark Hendrick) for securing this debate and to others who have supported it.”
UK-German Relations · 2026-02-25 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…The Minister set out the reports of what may have happened at El Fasher’s maternity hospital yesterday evening; 460 people could have been slaughtered in a maternity hospital—patients, their companions and medical staff. This surely must be a turning point in the war, and for the international community’s focus on it.”
Sudan: Protection of Civilians · 2025-10-30 · Read on Hansard ↗
“(Urgent Question): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs if she will make a statement on the UK’s activity to promote the protection of civilians, following a reported massacre at El Fasher’s Saudi maternity hospital.”
Sudan: Protection of Civilians · 2025-10-30 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…The Government have been clear that a legal right to additional support for SEND children will be maintained, but that we have to reform the system. Surely she agrees with that?…”
SEND Provision: South-east England · 2025-07-15 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…Friend quite rightly refers to. Of course, any such condition would have to be coterminous with a terminal illness, but we know—the Committee thrashed this out for a long period—that depression is often present at the same time as a diagnosis of terminal illness.”
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill · 2025-05-16 · Read on Hansard ↗
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