Biography
Baroness Wheatcroft has engaged on health and social care primarily through debate speeches, with particular focus on end-of-life care and assisted dying, which she addressed multiple times emphasising personal choice for terminally ill patients. She has also raised broader healthcare system issues including NHS workforce concerns, data privacy in patient records, and public sector productivity within the health service. Her contributions reflect engagement across adult social care, palliative care, cancer, and related policy areas through parliamentary debate rather than written questions.
Generated from their own Hansard record, below
“…The lack of a proper social care system is a massive problem for the NHS. It was July 2011 when Andrew Dilnot proposed an answer to what was even then seen as a desperately urgent problem. His report was knocked into the long grass and, whenever the issue rolls back, it is knocked back again.”
Record by topic
- Palliative & end of life care294th of 5684.0
- Cancer503rd of 6222.0
- Learning disability & autism756th of 8992.0
- Assisted dying277th of 3712.0
- Public health & prevention573rd of 6882.0
- Adult social care & reform312th of 3762.0
- NHS & care workforce/staffing236th of 3022.0
What they’ve said
“…Lord accept, however, that it would be deeply unfair if somebody whose major wish was to end their terminal illness, and the pain and intolerable suffering that was coming with it, was to be denied that right because they were also concerned about numerous other things? Very few people have a perfect life, even when th…”
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill · 2026-01-23 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…But in the end, this is a question of personal choice. No one is suggesting that assisted dying should be mandatory, nor even that it should be widely available. In fact, under this Bill, few might be eligible to ask for it, let alone choose to take up the option.”
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill · 2025-09-12 · Read on Hansard ↗
“My Lords, I thank the right reverend Prelate the Bishop of St Albans for securing this debate; it is clearly a popular subject. There have been Questions and other debates on it, but in this Chamber people have managed to provide many different answers to a similar question.”
Europe: Youth Mobility · 2025-01-30 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…These figures are based on 2022 research and had barely changed since 2019. Childhood obesity leads to adult obesity and, as we know, obesity is a massive cause of ill health and thus a major contributor to keeping people either out of the workplace or not at their most effective.”
Public Sector Productivity · 2024-10-09 · Read on Hansard ↗
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