Biography
Charlotte Cane has engaged extensively on health and social care issues primarily through debate speeches, with particular focus on dentistry access in her rural constituency, where she has highlighted that only 40% of adults and 54% of children have accessed NHS dental care and called for contract reform to attract dentists back to the NHS. Beyond dentistry, she has raised concerns about SEND provision, rural healthcare delivery more broadly, acquired brain injury support, and dyslexia in schools, consistently emphasising the challenges facing rural areas and underserved populations.
Generated from their own Hansard record, below
“…r please consider that, please consider the issues faced by rural areas, and please, please, please get us some NHS dentists in Ely and East Cambridgeshire?…”
Record by topic
- Learning disability & autism88th of 89936.0
- Dentistry access15th of 19421.0
- Maternity & neonatal101st of 4389.0
- Heart disease & stroke75th of 3986.0
- Mental health481st of 8806.0
- Unpaid carers158th of 2833.0
- Respiratory (asthma/COPD)47th of 1423.0
- Adult social care & reform186th of 3763.0
- Diabetes68th of 1903.0
What they’ve said
“…We are in a dental desert, and it is incredibly difficult to get an NHS dentist appointment. When I talk to the dentists, the most frustrating thing is that it is the contract that prevents them from treating people, not their intentions. The contract is based on units of treatment.”
Health Bill · 2026-09-07 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…the residents who have suffered from the fires—especially those with pre-existing respiratory illnesses such as asthma—fear further fires. They would like to see the site closed, at least temporarily, until all the changes are in place.”
Waste Management Sites · 2026-07-15 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…tell me about what pubs do to support community events and social interaction, combat loneliness and help with mental health, as well as providing young people with their first job and training them in communication and hospitality skills. But they are really struggling financially.”
Rural Pubs: Fiscal Support · 2026-06-17 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…That should be utterly unacceptable to us all. In short, Ely and East Cambridgeshire is an NHS dental desert. We have heard Labour Members make valiant attempts to blame almost anybody else for this situation, but it was a Labour Government who introduced the new dentist contract in 2006, despite lots of people warning…”
NHS Dentistry · 2026-06-15 · Read on Hansard ↗
“I welcome investment in NHS dentistry, but it is all just playing around at the edges unless and until we change that contract, because it is the contract that is at fault. I understand the Minister said that he would consult on that in the summer. We are already part way through June.”
NHS Dentistry · 2026-06-15 · Read on Hansard ↗
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