Biography
# Catherine West - Health and Social Care Engagement Summary Catherine West has engaged with health and social care topics primarily through nine debate speeches, with her most substantive contribution being an Adjournment debate in September 2026 on social care and mental health services in her constituency, where she emphasised improvements in mental health support and highlighted work by Baroness Casey on service reform. Her interventions have touched on public health prevention, including remarks on swimming education for primary school children, and she has raised concerns about ambulance services following an attack on Hatzola ambulances in her constituency. The extracts provided do not contain sufficient detail on her positions regarding A&E response times, elderly care, bed-blocking, or specific adult social care reform proposals.
Generated from their own Hansard record, below
“…In March this year, four ambulances belonging to the Hatzola ambulance service were set on fire in the car park of a synagogue in Golders Green. Hatzola provides a service for all Londoners, responding to thousands of emergencies every year, from minor injuries to life-threatening conditions.”
Record by topic
- A&E & ambulance response55th of 2586.0
- Public health & prevention252nd of 6886.0
- Elderly care & frailty76th of 2363.0
- Hospital discharge / bed-blocking41st of 1393.0
- Mental health654th of 8803.0
- Adult social care & reform186th of 3763.0
What they’ve said
“…Adjournment debate to discuss the profile of social care in decompressing the strain on mental health services in Hornsey and Friern Barnet. I begin the debate by emphasising how many improvements we have seen in society over the past 20 years when it comes to the position of people who suffer from poor mental health.”
Social Care and Mental Health Services: Hornsey and Friern Barnet · 2026-09-04 · Read on Hansard ↗
“The Minister is making an excellent point about prevention. The other thing that Swim England always emphasises is the importance of 11-year-olds being able to swim when they leave primary school. As a former teacher, does he agree with that?”
Public Baths and Lidos · 2026-03-25 · Read on Hansard ↗
“I thank my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Finchley and Golders Green (Sarah Sackman), who is sitting beside the Minister for Security, for her urgent action today, and my hon. Friend the Member for Hendon (David Pinto-Duschinsky), who I know will speak shortly, from the other side of Barnet.”
Hatzola Ambulance Attack · 2026-03-23 · Read on Hansard ↗
“I apologise, but I only have three minutes. We also want Sudan to be free of FGM—a priority that I know the hon. Member for Romford would be in agreement with—supporting the work of protection and prevention and providing care services in response to increasing rates of gender-based violence across Sudan.”
Humanitarian Situation in Sudan · 2025-07-22 · Read on Hansard ↗
“I thank my hon. Friend her for her important work in pulling together groups—in particular aid workers whose focus is on medical relief—and for her role on the Foreign Affairs Committee. I am sure she shares with me the worry about the news of a cholera outbreak in the region.”
Sudan · 2025-07-16 · Read on Hansard ↗
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