Biography
Blair McDougall has engaged with health and social care topics primarily through debate speeches, covering workforce retention in relation to NHS staffing, mental health services for young people affected by the pandemic, palliative care and end-of-life provision in the context of assisted dying legislation, and NHS waiting lists in Scotland. His contributions reflect concerns about vulnerable populations and service capacity, particularly regarding the impact of pandemic disruption on children's mental health services and the scale of waiting list pressures facing Scotland's health system.
Generated from their own Hansard record, below
“The hon. Member makes a really important point about staff retention. Obviously, management and the workforce are working on implementing not only reforms but the pay deal. Hopefully, that will play an important role in helping to tackle what he has just spoken about.”
Record by topic
- NHS waiting lists207th of 5346.0
- Mental health481st of 8806.0
- Maternity & neonatal238th of 4383.0
- Palliative & end of life care329th of 5683.0
- Public health & prevention417th of 6883.0
- Respiratory (asthma/COPD)47th of 1423.0
- Assisted dying193rd of 3713.0
- NHS & care workforce/staffing118th of 3023.0
- Learning disability & autism654th of 8993.0
What they’ve said
“I beg to move, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to make provision to remove Crown immunity as it applies to prisons for the purposes of health and safety legislation. Katie Allen lived in Clarkston in East Renfrewshire. She had a loving family and a very happy childhood. She was bright and did well at school.”
Crown Immunity (Prisons) · 2025-07-22 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…We have a duty to ask whether the poorest and most vulnerable will be coerced into choosing assisted dying over palliative care because of economic disadvantage. Will they be exploited by those with a financial interest in their choosing to end their life? Will their death become a commodity? If we are really going to…”
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill · 2025-06-13 · Read on Hansard ↗
“I congratulate the right hon. Member for Staffordshire Moorlands (Dame Karen Bradley) on securing the debate. However, I do not thank her for giving me that familiar feeling of dread—I am discovering that we often get it in this place—when the speaker immediately before makes almost identical points to those I had inte…”
Modern Slavery Act 2015: 10th Anniversary · 2025-03-27 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…Friend the Member for Stirling and Strathallan (Chris Kane) says, the enormous waiting lists. Researchers from Oxford University, Strathclyde University and Edinburgh University have predicted that by the time the SNP leaves office, almost a million Scots will be on waiting lists.”
Support for Women Pensioners · 2025-01-22 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…They have been washing up on the shores of social work, of the police sometimes, and of childhood mental health services, and I know from visiting my jobcentre in Barrhead that they are now washing up on its shores as well.”
“Get Britain Working” White Paper · 2024-11-26 · Read on Hansard ↗
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