Biography
Dr Chowns has engaged extensively on health and social care through 40 debate speeches, raising topics spanning NHS staffing, social care reform, maternity services, unpaid carers, and ambulance response times. Her contributions reflect a pattern of advocacy on interconnected issues, including concerns about NHS building conditions during heatwaves, hospital bed-blocking, and the need for respite care support for unpaid carers. She has also challenged government processes, notably raising on a point of order the exclusion of the Green Party from cross-party social care talks despite their prior involvement in the Casey commission discussions.
Generated from their own Hansard record, below
“…He did not invite the Green party, despite our involvement in the Casey commission cross-party talks for the past 18 months. When I expressed my concern about that in business questions this morning, the Leader of the House suggested that smaller parties had not taken up an invitation.”
Record by topic
- Learning disability & autism98th of 89933.0
- Public health & prevention43rd of 68827.0
- Palliative & end of life care80th of 56818.0
- Adult social care & reform32nd of 37615.0
- NHS waiting lists72nd of 53415.0
- Assisted dying62nd of 37112.0
- Mental health290th of 88012.0
- A&E & ambulance response34th of 2589.0
- Unpaid carers68th of 2839.0
- Dementia60th of 2516.0
- Health inequalities135th of 2883.0
- Diabetes68th of 1903.0
- Children's health56th of 1573.0
- NHS & care workforce/staffing118th of 3023.0
- Heart disease & stroke174th of 3983.0
- Maternity & neonatal238th of 4383.0
- Hospital discharge / bed-blocking41st of 1393.0
What they’ve said
“…ve temperatures in our hospitals and other health buildings, and we see it in the huge, unprecedented demand on ambulance services. First, will the Minister support my colleague Hannah Spencer’s private Member’s Bill to set a maximum workplace temperature to help keep people healthy during heatwaves? Secondly, what con…”
NHS Buildings: Extreme Heat · 2026-07-14 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…Our ambulance service has never been so busy. Tragically, lives have been lost as people have sought relief from the heat in rivers and lakes. Today, we have heard that it is estimated that there were 2,700 excess deaths due to just the May and June heatwaves.”
Embodied Carbon: Buildings · 2026-07-13 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…e incredible care they get at the hands of the people who keep it going, but they also tell me universally that corridor care is shameful and should not continue.”
NHS Corridor Care · 2026-07-08 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…As the hon. Member for Worthing West (Dr Cooper), with all her experience in public health, communicated so clearly, aid saves lives. The effect of the cuts that we have seen in the UK and globally will be millions more deaths—millions.”
UK Aid Policy: Global Funding Trends · 2026-07-07 · Read on Hansard ↗
“I thank the hon. Member. We know that aid works; I have seen it myself. I worked in international development for several decades before coming to this place. I have seen, in Malawi, how the provision of clean water literally saves lives. I have seen, in Burundi, how work on HIV and AIDS literally saves lives.”
UK Aid Policy: Global Funding Trends · 2026-07-07 · Read on Hansard ↗
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