Biography
Lord Stoneham has engaged on health and social care topics through four debate speeches spanning elderly care, NHS workforce issues, hospital discharge challenges, and mental health. His contributions include remarks on resident doctors' industrial action, emphasising patient impact and NHS staff pressures, and support for government investment in mental health services as part of broader employment and long-term sickness reduction efforts. These interventions reflect his focus on workforce sustainability and the health-employment nexus.
Generated from their own Hansard record, below
“…We need to pay for an ageing population and a proper system of social care. We need to recover and reverse the decline in services and infrastructure, which low growth has imposed on us, and we have to find a successful response to climate change.”
Record by topic
- Elderly care & frailty67th of 2364.0
- Hospital discharge / bed-blocking114th of 1392.0
- Mental health750th of 8802.0
- NHS & care workforce/staffing236th of 3022.0
What they’ve said
“…We face the situation in this country of an ageing population; there is going to be huge pressure on public spending and the need for care provision on an unimaginable scale as we go forward. Actually, I have to say that I think war in Europe seems closer than at any time since the Cuban missile crisis.”
The UK’s Demographic Future · 2025-12-11 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…BMA to the effect on patients and on other NHS staff, some of whom are paid much less well than resident doctors but will have to do their best to minimise the damage. Resident doctors had a 29% pay increase last year.”
Resident Doctors: Industrial Action · 2025-07-16 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…rnment are giving to improving apprenticeships, reforming jobcentres and investing in the health service to cut mental health and other health problems affecting labour activity rates.”
“Get Britain Working” White Paper · 2024-11-27 · Read on Hansard ↗
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