Biography
Lord Monks engaged with health and social care topics primarily through debate speeches on hospices and palliative care funding, drawing on personal experience following his son's death at St Christopher's Hospice earlier in 2024. His contributions demonstrate engagement with end-of-life care provision rather than the other topics listed, with his hospices speech being the substantive health and social care contribution from the provided extracts.
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“…Discussions about working time, overtime, and maternity and paternity leave can be contentious in workplaces. But this did not generally occur, as far as we are aware, with the introduction of working from home in the pandemic. There were some problems, certainly, but not anything significant.”
Record by topic
- Maternity & neonatal356th of 4382.5
- Assisted dying277th of 3712.0
- Palliative & end of life care452nd of 5682.0
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Employment Rights Bill · 2025-05-21 · Read on Hansard ↗
“My Lords, I too am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Farmer, for allowing us to shine a light on our hospices. They deserve all the help we can give them in return for all the help they give us and our families.”
Hospices: Funding · 2024-10-24 · Read on Hansard ↗
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