Biography
McKenna has engaged extensively with health and social care topics through 20 debate speeches, with particular focus on mental health, learning disabilities, NHS workforce issues, and end-of-life care. He has drawn on his background as a nurse to contribute to debates on gambling harms as a public health issue, the Mental Health Bill, resident doctors' industrial action, and the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill, consistently framing health issues through a public health lens. His contributions have also addressed SEND provision and adult social care challenges affecting his coastal Kent constituency.
Generated from their own Hansard record, below
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Record by topic
- Mental health188th of 88018.0
- Public health & prevention92nd of 68815.0
- Learning disability & autism253rd of 89915.0
- Palliative & end of life care158th of 5689.0
- NHS & care workforce/staffing61st of 3026.0
- Assisted dying116th of 3716.0
- Adult social care & reform186th of 3763.0
- NHS waiting lists323rd of 5343.0
- Health inequalities135th of 2883.0
What they’ve said
“…However, I want to focus on the issues for children with special educational needs and disabilities and particularly those aged 16 and older. Kent county council has recently changed the criteria that allow people to opt for school transport to their education and has now made it all but impossible for people with spec…”
Home-to-School Transport · 2026-06-04 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…What are the Government doing in terms of regulating gambling as a public health issue? That is a key question for the Minister. I really welcome the changes to the gambling levy, and I particularly welcome the fact that it is targeted at children in poverty; the money is being used to offset the harm, socially, that i…”
Gambling Harms: Children and Young People · 2026-01-15 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…It is exactly that: gambling has to be treated as a public health issue. I would endorse all those actions. The key thing is that we look to regulate alcohol, junk food and all such items because we know that they cause risk and cost us all money; if they are increasing demand on the NHS, they are costing us money.”
Gambling Harms: Children and Young People · 2026-01-15 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…really want to explore today, in relation to children and young people, is how we should look at gambling as a public health issue, and one that is of rising concern because of changes in the way people gamble. People are gambling with all sorts of new technologies, and the country is gambling with lives.”
Gambling Harms: Children and Young People · 2026-01-15 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…Secretary of State for the work he has done to address what have been long-running sores in the experience of resident doctors. Some of this is genuinely transformational, and what I know a lot of clinical colleagues have been after for so long. But healthcare is a collective activity.”
Resident Doctors: Industrial Action · 2025-12-10 · Read on Hansard ↗
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