Biography
Baroness Walmsley has made 40 debate speeches across health and social care topics, with a particular focus on prevention, workforce challenges, and public health measures. She has raised concerns about implementation gaps between policy and practice—including variable uptake of NICE guidelines on antenatal alcohol screening, underfunding of primary care relative to hospital services, and significant staffing shortages in midwifery and maternity services. Her contributions also emphasise prevention strategies such as vaccination rates, tobacco and vape regulation, and cancer screening, linking these to both health outcomes and NHS sustainability.
Generated from their own Hansard record, below
“…Will the Government embed NICE guidelines everywhere, alongside a national public health campaign on alcohol in pregnancy, equivalent to the effective existing smoking in pregnancy campaign?…”
Record by topic
- Public health & prevention13th of 68864.5
- Mental health188th of 88018.0
- Cancer126th of 62212.0
- Maternity & neonatal97th of 43810.0
- Adult social care & reform89th of 3768.0
- NHS waiting lists207th of 5346.0
- Diabetes33rd of 1906.0
- NHS & care workforce/staffing103rd of 3024.0
- Heart disease & stroke150th of 3984.0
- Children's health50th of 1574.0
- Dentistry access95th of 1944.0
- Health inequalities121st of 2884.0
- Learning disability & autism592nd of 8994.0
- Respiratory (asthma/COPD)122nd of 1422.0
- Unpaid carers243rd of 2832.0
- Long Covid48th of 552.0
- GP access205th of 2412.0
What they’ve said
“…Primary care, including dentists, optometrists and community pharmacists, is part of the prevention agenda yet there are major funding gaps and important aspects of the service suffer.”
Healthcare Services: Acute, Primary and Community · 2026-06-25 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…The consultation lasted 10 minutes over the phone. The consultant, whose primary speciality was diabetes, reviewed blood tests, said they were normal and suggested my partner take a multivitamin. The clinic was disbanded the following day due to the consultant’s retirement, with no handover to an alternative service.”
Severe Myalgic Encephalomyelitis · 2026-06-18 · Read on Hansard ↗
“My Lords, does the Minister agree that any deal that the Government might do with the supermarkets to cut prices in exchange for delaying regulations on healthy food would be short-sighted, against public health and damaging to the NHS?”
Supermarkets: Voluntary Price Caps · 2026-05-20 · Read on Hansard ↗
“My Lords, recently my work has focused on two aspects of prevention of ill health and health inequalities. In 2024, I chaired a one-year special inquiry into food, diet and obesity, and this year I am chairing one into childhood vaccination rates in England.”
King’s Speech · 2026-05-20 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…Although the issues affecting women’s health generally are numerous, the NHS failures in maternity services are the most widely reported and deeply shocking. Review after review has uncovered the same failures across the country: a failure to listen to women, a lack of time for training, inadequate staffing levels lead…”
Women’s Health Strategy · 2026-04-23 · Read on Hansard ↗
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