Biography
Gregory Stafford has engaged extensively on health and social care through 40 debate speeches, with particular focus on NHS workforce pressures, pharmacy funding, dentistry access, and social care reform. His contributions reflect professional healthcare experience and detailed policy scrutiny, including close examination of legislative provisions in the Health Bill regarding service integration, patient protections, and coordination between health and social care. Recurring themes include improving access to primary care services in his constituency, addressing inappropriate hospital settings through better discharge planning, and ensuring robust safeguarding mechanisms within health service reforms.
Generated from their own Hansard record, below
“It is a privilege to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Betts. I welcome the Minister for Public Health and Patient Safety, the right hon. Member for Kingston upon Hull North and Cottingham (Dame Diana Johnson), to her new role and congratulate her on her appointment. I also congratulate my hon.”
Record by topic
- Mental health9th of 880153.0
- Public health & prevention7th of 688108.0
- Learning disability & autism18th of 89984.0
- NHS waiting lists17th of 53439.0
- Palliative & end of life care34th of 56839.0
- Cancer38th of 62230.0
- NHS & care workforce/staffing10th of 30224.0
- Maternity & neonatal24th of 43824.0
- Dentistry access15th of 19421.0
- Adult social care & reform32nd of 37615.0
- GP access16th of 24115.0
- Heart disease & stroke29th of 39812.0
- A&E & ambulance response34th of 2589.0
- Unpaid carers68th of 2839.0
- Assisted dying92nd of 3719.0
- Elderly care & frailty14th of 2369.0
- Rare diseases28th of 2029.0
- Respiratory (asthma/COPD)21st of 1426.0
- Children's health28th of 1576.0
- Dementia108th of 2513.0
- Care home closures & provider failure13th of 473.0
- Hospital discharge / bed-blocking41st of 1393.0
What they’ve said
“…That ambition will clearly not be met under this Government, and we are still waiting for the long-promised NHS workforce plan. Despite my asking the then Secretary of State for Health, the right hon. Member for Ealing North (James Murray), in July when the plan was coming out, we still have no answer.”
Pharmacies: Government Funding · 2026-09-09 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…Constituents regularly raise with me their concerns about seeing an NHS dentist. As I have announced a number of times in this Committee—although I have not checked today, so may not be true any more—there is not a single dentist in my constituency taking on adult or child NHS patients at the moment.”
Health Bill (Seventeenth sitting) · 2026-07-16 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…I suspect that they probably have. For patients awaiting cancer treatment, for someone requiring urgent surgery or for families relying on maternity services, the impact can be deeply serious and potentially even deadly.”
Health Bill (Seventeenth sitting) · 2026-07-16 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…Member for Worthing West, who tabled them, has considerable expertise, being a public health consultant herself. I have the pleasure of sitting with the hon. Member on the Health and Social Care Committee and she brings her expertise to every single sitting.”
Health Bill (Fourteenth sitting) · 2026-07-09 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…When I worked on the Getting It Right First Time programme, our accident and emergency reports put forward some interesting methods that could potentially help with that. Some of that has been implemented and some has not, but I recommend all hon.”
Health Bill (Fourteenth sitting) · 2026-07-09 · Read on Hansard ↗
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