Biography
Monica Harding has engaged extensively on health and social care through 40 debate speeches, with particular focus on end-of-life care, maternity services, palliative care funding, and NHS system pressures including bed-blocking. She has drawn on personal and constituent experiences—including her brother-in-law's brain cancer treatment, her own traumatic births, and her mother's hospital discharge difficulties—to illustrate systemic issues in cancer care access, maternity provision, and social care integration. Her contributions also address children's health and mental wellbeing, workforce challenges, and learning disability support, often connecting these issues to broader questions about NHS funding sustainability and equity of access.
Generated from their own Hansard record, below
“…The only question we are left with is not whether we are in favour of the principle of assisted dying; it is whether we are 100% content with this Bill. We no longer have the prospect of the second Chamber making it any safer.”
Record by topic
- Mental health45th of 88075.0
- Learning disability & autism51st of 89948.0
- Cancer28th of 62236.0
- Public health & prevention56th of 68821.0
- Palliative & end of life care80th of 56818.0
- NHS waiting lists72nd of 53415.0
- Adult social care & reform61st of 3769.0
- Maternity & neonatal101st of 4389.0
- Rare diseases28th of 2029.0
- Children's health28th of 1576.0
- NHS & care workforce/staffing118th of 3023.0
- Elderly care & frailty76th of 2363.0
- GP access93rd of 2413.0
- Hospital discharge / bed-blocking41st of 1393.0
- Assisted dying193rd of 3713.0
What they’ve said
“…discharged on the same day, but because there was no care support for her, she was then in hospital for a week, bed blocking. Because of the quality of care she received, when she came out she ended up with a very severe urinary tract infection and sepsis, and then had to stay in hospital for six weeks.”
NHS Corridor Care · 2026-07-08 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…Given all the pandemic’s death, its destruction of economies and its long tail of social and mental health challenges, I am sure that many hon. Friends will share my dismay at the decision by the Government to discontinue funding the Pandemic Fund.”
UK Aid Policy: Global Funding Trends · 2026-07-07 · Read on Hansard ↗
“Will the Leader of the House join me in congratulating Princess Alice hospice in my constituency on celebrating its 40th anniversary this year? Over the past 40 years, it has cared for tens of thousands of people and has been a staple for local families at their most vulnerable.”
Business of the House · 2026-06-25 · Read on Hansard ↗
“Yesterday, at the glorious Princess Alice hospice summer fete in my constituency, I met Glen, a Royal Navy veteran whose last deployment was aboard HMS Broadsword.”
Defence Investment Plan · 2026-06-15 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…We need brain cancer care to be recognised as genuinely time-critical, because while tumours can progress in weeks, the system responds in years. We need a truly national brain cancer clinical trials pipeline, and we need the routine collection and storage of fresh frozen tumour tissue for all brain cancer patients.”
Brain Cancer · 2026-06-15 · Read on Hansard ↗
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