Biography
Jo White has engaged extensively on health and social care through 27 debate speeches, with particular focus on maternity services, cancer screening, and the links between health conditions and quality of life. Notable contributions include passionate advocacy for improved maternity standards following the Nottingham University Hospitals scandal, campaigning on breast cancer awareness and screening uptake in Bassetlaw, and highlighting connections between hearing loss and dementia progression. The member has also engaged on broader NHS reform issues including waiting lists, hospital bed-blocking, and GP access.
Generated from their own Hansard record, below
“…They will not have to confront the difficulties that are present with going in to register a stillbirth, where there is the fear of seeing people presenting the joyous side of the birth of a new baby.”
Record by topic
- Cancer43rd of 62227.0
- Learning disability & autism307th of 89912.0
- Maternity & neonatal68th of 43812.0
- NHS waiting lists140th of 5349.0
- Public health & prevention252nd of 6886.0
- Dementia60th of 2516.0
- Adult social care & reform186th of 3763.0
- GP access93rd of 2413.0
- Elderly care & frailty76th of 2363.0
- Hospital discharge / bed-blocking41st of 1393.0
- Mental health654th of 8803.0
What they’ve said
“…ervices, the draft regulations form part of the Government’s programme to modernise the registration of births, stillbirths and deaths in England and Wales. They support the move from paper registers to a fully electronic registration system, while preserving the integrity, reliability and legal certainty that have alw…”
Draft Registration of Births and Deaths (England and Wales) (Specified Requirements) Regulations 2026 · 2026-09-01 · Read on Hansard ↗
“My mum was a midwife, and as a child I lived vicariously the life on a maternity ward. She worked to the very highest standards possible, and used to come home and talk to me about sloppy standards, falling standards and insensitivity.”
Nottingham Maternity and Neonatal Services · 2026-06-24 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…I know how frustrated patients and staff have become after years of rising waiting lists, cancelled appointments and growing bureaucracy. Since coming into office, this Labour Government have already started to turn things around by delivering more than 3 million extra appointments ahead of schedule, cutting waiting li…”
Health Bill (Third sitting) · 2026-06-18 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…Member for Melton and Syston is here, and during the passage of the Bill that became the Health and Care Act 2022, we said to the Department that that might have been the opportunity to act. I think that previous Secretaries of State, as was alluded to earlier, thought that they might do that.”
Health Bill (Second sitting) · 2026-06-16 · Read on Hansard ↗
“I was talking about bed-blocking in hospitals and how neighbourhood health plans can work more cohesively with hospital trusts. Councillor Wright: I think we can answer this together.”
Health Bill (Second sitting) · 2026-06-16 · Read on Hansard ↗
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