Biography
Baroness Murphy has engaged extensively on health and social care through 28 debate speeches, with particular focus on dementia research and data quality, mental health service provision, and end-of-life care legislation. She has consistently championed the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill across multiple debates, drawing on her 50 years as an NHS clinician to advocate for respecting patient autonomy whilst maintaining continuity of care. Her contributions also address workforce challenges in mental health services, the need for improved early diagnosis in dementia, and concerns about over-diagnosis of mental health conditions in children.
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“…Then there are the other problems of the MoJ: severe staff shortages in the Prison and Probation Service, in which a staggering shortfall of personnel means that those left are suffering from exhaustion and low morale; the early release and legislative pressures we have heard so much about recently placing an impossibl…”
Record by topic
- Mental health140th of 88024.0
- Learning disability & autism221st of 89918.0
- Assisted dying78th of 37110.0
- Dementia28th of 25110.0
- Palliative & end of life care198th of 5688.0
- Cancer230th of 6226.0
- Public health & prevention373rd of 6884.0
- Maternity & neonatal363rd of 4382.0
- Adult social care & reform312th of 3762.0
- NHS waiting lists467th of 5342.0
- NHS & care workforce/staffing236th of 3022.0
What they’ve said
“…Lord, Lord Patel, to talk about the data for research for the greatest health challenge of our time—dementia. We need to improve the quality, accessibility and use of dementia data to support research, which is in an extremely poor state. We identify people too late, if at all.”
Patient Data: Research · 2026-09-10 · Read on Hansard ↗
“I am very grateful to the Minister for that update. Dementia is now the most prevalent mental disorder in the country and the leading cause of death in women. I think she will agree with me that, at the moment, only 30% of dementia cases ever get diagnosed.”
NHS: Dementia Treatment Trials · 2026-06-22 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…What we see now has been referred to as the cultural inflation of morbidity, including the rise in so-called autistic spectrum disorder in children with average or superior intellectual gifts, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder—if noble Lords would like to test themselves on the myriad of online websites, they wi…”
Mental Health Conditions: Diagnoses · 2026-06-15 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…with a very positive attitude who have good expectations? There are now numerous studies of people with breast cancer showing that the alternative, to totally deny it, also has a slightly better prognosis.”
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill · 2026-03-20 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…have implemented similar legislation to this one—and I am thinking of Oregon, the State of Washington and so on—assisted dying is a small part, a very tiny part, of a good palliative care service, and it is best delivered when people who have been caring for somebody through the course of their terminal illness are ena…”
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill · 2026-03-20 · Read on Hansard ↗
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