Biography
Baroness Gerada has contributed to 17 debate speeches across a wide range of health and social care topics, drawing consistently on her background as a practising GP with over 40 years' experience and leadership roles in medical organisations. Her contributions have centred on systemic issues in primary care funding and resource allocation, with particular prominence given to the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill, on which she has spoken multiple times, bringing clinical expertise to questions of implementation, terminology, and patient consent. She has also engaged substantively on workforce issues, cancer detection, mental health standards, and public health matters including gambling and tobacco regulation.
Generated from their own Hansard record, below
“…We have just heard that general practice now receives its lowest share of the NHS budget for a decade. Will the Minister agree to address this so that GPs can deliver continuity of care, which we know improves access, reduces demand, improves outcomes and fundamentally delivers better value for money?…”
Record by topic
- GP access19th of 24112.0
- Assisted dying78th of 37110.0
- Palliative & end of life care198th of 5688.0
- Cancer230th of 6226.0
- Mental health481st of 8806.0
- Heart disease & stroke150th of 3984.0
- Diabetes62nd of 1904.0
- A&E & ambulance response222nd of 2582.0
- Adult social care & reform312th of 3762.0
- Dentistry access175th of 1942.0
- Elderly care & frailty166th of 2362.0
- Learning disability & autism756th of 8992.0
- Maternity & neonatal363rd of 4382.0
- Public health & prevention573rd of 6882.0
- Rare diseases170th of 2022.0
What they’ve said
“…Select Committee of this House argued and as the noble Lord, Lord Foster, said so eloquently, as a public health issue, not simply as a matter of consumer choice. This brings me, briefly, to the statutory levy. We finally have a statutory levy replacing the old voluntary system. In principle, that is real progress.”
Young People: Gambling Harm · 2026-07-23 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…Baroness, Lady Walmsley, for saying many of the things around primary care and general practice that I want to say. I always feel that I am here defending my own profession. The NHS was founded on a vision of care delivered close to home—in communities, general practices and by district nurses.”
Healthcare Services: Acute, Primary and Community · 2026-06-25 · Read on Hansard ↗
“Can the Minister comment on whether the mental health investment standard introduced in the Health and Care Act 2022, which requires the Secretary of State to report annually to Parliament on the share of NHS funding for mental health, will be replicated for primary care?”
Integrated Care Boards: Budgets · 2026-06-17 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…We have even heard today about the 100 languages that are spoken. How do we manage learning disability? How do we manage people who are disabled? We do this every single day, a million times per day.”
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill · 2026-04-24 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…the river, and, over the past 40 years, I have diagnosed and cared for many tens of thousands of patients with cancer. We currently use AI to help us: we use it with our e-consultation system, which can identify red flags.”
Cancer Outcomes in the UK · 2026-04-21 · Read on Hansard ↗
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