Biography
Baroness Thornton has engaged extensively on health and social care through 21 debate speeches and one committee contribution, with a particular focus on social care reform, maternity services, learning disabilities, and end-of-life care. Her contributions reflect declared interests as chair of the Social Care Institute for Excellence and involvement with social enterprises delivering public services. She has raised interconnected policy issues including NHS waiting lists, mental health services, children's social care, and the interface between health and social care provision.
Generated from their own Hansard record, below
“…wider issue than just social care, because it deals with young people, disabled people, those with learning and mental health challenges and so on. The interface between health and social care is undoubtedly a facet of this debate.”
Record by topic
- Adult social care & reform39th of 37612.0
- Maternity & neonatal137th of 4388.0
- Learning disability & autism441st of 8998.0
- Mental health474th of 8806.5
- Health inequalities80th of 2886.0
- Elderly care & frailty65th of 2364.5
- Public health & prevention373rd of 6884.0
- Cancer332nd of 6224.0
- Care home closures & provider failure11th of 474.0
- NHS waiting lists467th of 5342.0
- Heart disease & stroke324th of 3982.0
- Hospital discharge / bed-blocking114th of 1392.0
- Long Covid48th of 552.0
- Palliative & end of life care452nd of 5682.0
- Respiratory (asthma/COPD)122nd of 1422.0
- Assisted dying277th of 3712.0
What they’ve said
“…I need to declare that I am the maternity lead, as a non-executive member, at the Whittington Hospital, and I will be at the conference as a member of one of the reference groups tomorrow.”
National Maternity and Neonatal Investigation · 2026-07-06 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…I am also a non-executive director of Whittington Health, where I am the maternity lead. I am going to talk about the demographic impact of our ageing population. It is important to say, as other noble Lords have said, that having a population of so many people living longer is a matter for rejoicing.”
Declining Birth Rates · 2026-06-04 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…and those who have lived experience to be the voices in the design and delivery of neighbourhood health and the national care service. My first question to my noble friend the Minister is: how will the Government ensure that people’s lived experience shapes service design, improvement and accountability? Importantly, i…”
King’s Speech · 2026-05-20 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…Minister about this matter, because the Mental Capacity Act 2005 presumes adult capacity and the Care Act 2014 defines safeguarding thresholds, which my noble friend has outlined in some detail already.”
NHS Adult Gender Identity Clinics · 2026-04-15 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…It does not seem so long ago that, during the course of what became the Health and Care Act 2022 which established ICBs, many of us across the House were begging the then Secretary of State to include a commitment in the Act to have a workforce strategy, to no avail.”
Medical Training (Prioritisation) Bill · 2026-02-04 · Read on Hansard ↗
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