Biography
Catherine Atkinson has engaged substantively with health and social care topics through 17 debate speeches, with particular focus on mental health provision, GP access, and dentistry access in her Derby North constituency. Her contributions span inquests and accountability mechanisms, family court safeguarding, and SEND provision delays, reflecting both her ministerial role and constituency casework. Notable interventions include securing improved mental health facilities locally and highlighting gaps in NHS dentist provision and GP surgery access for new housing developments.
Generated from their own Hansard record, below
“The Office of the Chief Coroner has continued work to improve access to prevention of future deaths reports, while the Government seek to strengthen arrangements for responding to concerns raised through them, including better and more strategic use of technology.”
Record by topic
- Learning disability & autism307th of 89912.0
- Mental health290th of 88012.0
- Maternity & neonatal138th of 4386.0
- Dentistry access100th of 1943.0
- GP access93rd of 2413.0
- Palliative & end of life care329th of 5683.0
- Unpaid carers158th of 2833.0
What they’ve said
“…will extend the duty to investigations into police misconduct; to serious healthcare incidents, including major maternity reviews, such as the Leeds and Sussex maternity services reviews; to serious health and safety investigations; and to key ombudsman investigations, transforming the ability of these investigations t…”
Public Office (Accountability) Bill · 2026-07-14 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…Other Members raised the Nottingham maternity review, which I have followed closely, as I have the work of the Government’s maternity adviser, my hon. Friend the Member for Sherwood Forest (Michelle Welsh), because of my experience in Nottingham when I was giving birth to my eldest son in 2014.”
Public Office (Accountability) Bill · 2026-07-14 · Read on Hansard ↗
“It is absolutely right that recommendations are tracked and that we ensure there is a clear way of giving everyone confidence that recommendations will be implemented.”
Public Office (Accountability) Bill · 2026-07-14 · Read on Hansard ↗
“I am grateful to my right hon. Friend for the time she has spent with me in raising this and other issues. Under our proposed expansion, multiple family members will be able to receive non-means-tested legal help to prepare for an inquest hearing where a public authority is an interested person, and that includes help…”
Public Office (Accountability) Bill · 2026-07-14 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…Dr Sullivan) set out the additional concerns that can be raised when there are further vulnerabilities or special educational needs. There is mandatory training for His Majesty’s Courts and Tribunals Service staff, and the judiciary is supported by the “Equal Treatment Bench Book” to enable that effective participation…”
Family Justice System: Domestic Abuse and Safeguarding · 2026-05-21 · Read on Hansard ↗
Contributions reproduced under the Open Parliament Licence.