Lord Patel
House of Lords
CrossbenchOverall, across health & social care this Parliament
Alive and kicking!
Ranks 200th of 1273 MPs and peers who have spoken on health or care this Parliament — top 16%. 46 contributions since 2024-07-19.
Record by topic
- Cancer21st of 61346.0
- Maternity & neonatal47th of 42716.5
- Mental health365th of 86910.0
- Learning disability & autism548th of 9676.0
- NHS & care workforce/staffing61st of 2956.0
- Heart disease & stroke69th of 3876.0
- Diabetes31st of 1876.0
- Palliative & end of life care231st of 5736.0
- Public health & prevention299th of 7346.0
- NHS waiting lists198th of 5306.0
- Rare diseases71st of 1984.0
- Health inequalities116th of 2774.0
- A&E & ambulance response215th of 2482.0
- Respiratory (asthma/COPD)122nd of 1422.0
- Dementia206th of 2452.0
- Adult social care & reform300th of 3622.0
What they’ve said
“…We have many reports now describing the tragedies occurring in maternity services. I hope this report will be the final one before we go back to delivering the best maternity care, as we used to. It was world leading.”
National Maternity and Neonatal Investigation · 2026-07-06 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…They also get it from charities, mostly from Wellcome and Cancer Research UK in the health sciences; from philanthropy; and, for some universities, from the alumni network. However, there are deep structural flaws in how the universities get the funding and what happens.”
Higher Education: Affordability and Quality · 2026-07-02 · Read on Hansard ↗
“My Lords, if our intention is to increase the diagnosis rate of early dementia, normally what we would do is to find a screening test that would identify people at risk of any disease.”
NHS: Dementia Treatment Trials · 2026-06-22 · Read on Hansard ↗
“My Lords, several trials are assessing the use of AI for prostate cancer screening and diagnostics, as well as testing the accuracy of digital imaging and histological imaging of biopsies to understand better the progression of disease. Some of them are well funded.”
Prostate Cancer Screening: AI · 2026-06-18 · Read on Hansard ↗