Biography
Baroness Ludford has engaged primarily through debate speeches across a diverse range of topics, with nine contributions spanning health and social care issues including sickle cell disease, amputee prosthetics, NHS staffing, and apheresis treatment capacity, alongside broader justice and immigration matters. Her health and social care interventions have drawn on personal experience, notably referencing her late husband's experience with sepsis-related amputation when discussing prosthetics provision. She has also conducted one piece of committee work on criminal justice reform.
Generated from their own Hansard record, below
“…Of course we want research. I have been tangentially involved in research for a cure for diabetes, because my late husband was type 1, and he was involved in this area. The fact is that this was re-identifiable data. Some press referred to it as “anonymised”; it was not anonymised.”
Record by topic
- Mental health474th of 8806.5
- Diabetes33rd of 1906.0
- NHS & care workforce/staffing101st of 3024.5
- Rare diseases73rd of 2024.0
- A&E & ambulance response222nd of 2582.0
- Heart disease & stroke324th of 3982.0
What they’ve said
“…arently identified the person involved on the police national computer, but that did not go anywhere before the Huntington train incident. I put down a marker that I would be interested to know about that in future as one of the lessons learned.”
Huntingdon Train Attack · 2025-11-04 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…This reminds me very much—I hope noble Lords do not think that I am going down a rabbit hole—of diabetes technology. It might seem absolutely nothing to do with this subject, and it is not, but my late husband was a type 1 diabetic.”
Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill · 2025-11-03 · Read on Hansard ↗
“My Lords, Amendment 71 is in my name and that of my noble friend Lord German. I had expected that it would be grouped with my mine and others’ amendments about Europol.”
Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill · 2025-06-26 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…Maybe a clue comes from the motion passed at the British Medical Association’s resident doctors’ branch conference last Saturday; apparently, junior doctors are now called “resident doctors”.”
NHS: Single-sex Spaces for Staff · 2025-05-01 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…I shall come back to sepsis, but I want to say something about diabetes. My husband had been a type 1 diabetic since he was 21, and because type 1 damages organs and the immune system, all this was no doubt a contributory factor in his acquiring sepsis.”
Prosthetics for Amputees · 2025-05-01 · Read on Hansard ↗
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