Biography
Baroness Fox has engaged extensively with end-of-life care and assisted dying through 40 debate speeches, raising detailed concerns about the implications for healthcare workers' conscience rights, medical duties, and the care sector's involvement in the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill across multiple Lords debates. Beyond this primary focus, she has contributed to discussions on mental health (particularly regarding screen use and young people), youth unemployment, public safety, and accountability in governance. Her contributions are characterised by close attention to unintended consequences and the experiences of workers across the health and social care sectors.
Generated from their own Hansard record, below
“…Calocane’s care, it was found that NHS staff were acutely conscious of the legislative debate surrounding the Mental Health Bill about the alleged disproportionate use of coercive detention of Black and Afro-Caribbean patients.”
Record by topic
- Mental health44th of 88076.0
- Assisted dying16th of 37158.0
- Palliative & end of life care27th of 56846.0
- Learning disability & autism67th of 89942.0
- Public health & prevention23rd of 68838.0
- Cancer63rd of 62222.0
- NHS waiting lists101st of 53412.0
- NHS & care workforce/staffing61st of 3026.0
- Dementia60th of 2516.0
- Maternity & neonatal220th of 4384.0
- Hospital discharge / bed-blocking34th of 1394.0
- Heart disease & stroke150th of 3984.0
- Health inequalities245th of 2882.0
- Elderly care & frailty166th of 2362.0
- Diabetes154th of 1902.0
What they’ve said
“…There is a well-documented huge surge of allegedly debilitating mental health conditions such as depression and neurodivergence. We accept these accounts of distress uncritically, and even without medical diagnosis.”
Welfare Reforms and Youth Unemployment · 2026-06-11 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…Instead, at least partly, state agencies, from psychiatrists to the police, seem to have interpreted the Mental Health Act that we passed here as a signal to treat dangerous perpetrators as vulnerable and to avoid any action that can be labelled discriminatory or racist. The laws we pass have consequences.”
King’s Speech · 2026-05-18 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…That is cynical misinformation and an undignified smear. So when—probably—or if any version of assisted dying legislation returns here, I hope that all sides will continue to read the small print, line by line, and that we will stop smearing each other and maybe work together on bringing through safe and workable legis…”
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill · 2026-04-24 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…I can tell the House that those I know find that politicians’ enthusiasm for assisted dying—in preference to energy going into palliative care or hospices—makes them feel like a burden, and they are demoralised and dispirited.”
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill · 2026-04-24 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…Emma, the mother of Barnaby, one of the murdered people, said, “I don’t want to talk about race”, but mental health treatment was not given to him because it might be seen as being because he was Black. A bastardised anti-racism has not helped us here and will not help us hold people to account, either.”
Southport Inquiry · 2026-04-15 · Read on Hansard ↗
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