“The chief executive of NHS England and I toured the John Radcliffe’s maternity unit this summer. The building is in a dire state: women give birth in rooms with no windows and no toilets—and where there are toilets, they often flood. In fact, Valerie Amos said that it was the worst she had seen as part of her review.”
Record by topic
- Mental health86th of 89042.0
- Health inequalities15th of 29918.0
- Palliative & end of life care68th of 54018.0
- Maternity & neonatal56th of 45315.0
- NHS & care workforce/staffing17th of 31415.0
- NHS waiting lists74th of 54315.0
- Learning disability & autism308th of 90512.0
- Assisted dying70th of 39212.0
- Cancer141st of 64112.0
- Adult social care & reform71st of 3979.0
- Hospital discharge / bed-blocking17th of 1459.0
- Public health & prevention260th of 7006.0
- GP access52nd of 2476.0
- Elderly care & frailty77th of 2493.0
- Diabetes68th of 1993.0
- Plastic & reconstructive surgery6th of 263.0
- Dentistry access105th of 1973.0
- Children's health58th of 1653.0
- A&E & ambulance response118th of 2723.0
- Long Covid16th of 563.0
- Medical ethics & regulation102nd of 2263.0
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What they’ve said
“…One constituent with incurable cancer contacted me, asking for the freedom to choose when to give up their battle. Her own brother had an incurable melanoma spreading down his neck, which left him barely able to speak to his loved ones.”
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill · 2026-09-11 · Read on Hansard ↗
“No, I shall not. It is worth noting that the NHS has not been meeting its own standards on palliative care for decades. The then Minister for Care, the right hon. Member for Aberafan Maesteg (Stephen Kinnock), appeared before our Committee in the spring, and he mentioned the importance of workforce.”
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill · 2026-09-11 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…May I draw her attention to our Committee’s work on corridor care, and the correspondence between the Committee and the Minister for Secondary Care, who is in her place? I thought it was a constructive session. In our correspondence with the Department, we raised the issue of staff fatigue.”
Summer Health and Resilience · 2026-09-09 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…In particular, there are amendments on the Health Services Safety Investigations Body, Healthwatch and health inequalities, which we will consider tomorrow, and, most importantly, the special needs amendment, which we are considering today.”
Health Bill · 2026-09-07 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…issue—by the way, this was based on a recommendation that came out of the Education Select Committee’s work on EHCPs, so we decided to take up the “H” bit. In that roundtable, I heard movingly from families who kept saying things like, “Everything is a battle.” One child, Stefan, suffers from multiple epiphyseal dyspl…”
Health Bill · 2026-09-07 · Read on Hansard ↗
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Related media coverage
Recent UK press coverage of their topics — not necessarily quoting them directly.
- Report highlights rural public health inequalitiesBBC
- Paying with our healthThe Health Foundation
- Hotter summers, hidden harmsCentre for Mental Health