Biography
James Frith has engaged with health and social care topics primarily through debate speeches, with 24 contributions covering a diverse range of issues including NHS waiting lists, mental health services, workforce pressures, and specific health conditions such as vascular disease and sudden cardiac death. His contributions have focused particularly on local health system improvements, including diagnostic capacity expansion and service commissioning reform, whilst also raising broader concerns about child and adolescent mental health services waiting times and the separation of neurodiversity services in his Bury North constituency. Frith has consistently linked health discussions to wider social determinants, notably highlighting health inequalities and child poverty in his local area.
Generated from their own Hansard record, below
“…March ’29 to the NHS constitutional standard of 92% of elective care patients’ waiting times from referral to treatment being within 18 weeks. Of course, that includes those patients waiting for vascular services.”
Record by topic
- Learning disability & autism159th of 89924.0
- Heart disease & stroke18th of 39818.0
- Health inequalities28th of 28812.0
- Cancer126th of 62212.0
- NHS waiting lists101st of 53412.0
- Assisted dying92nd of 3719.0
- Palliative & end of life care158th of 5689.0
- A&E & ambulance response55th of 2586.0
- Diabetes33rd of 1906.0
- Maternity & neonatal138th of 4386.0
- Mental health481st of 8806.0
- Public health & prevention252nd of 6886.0
- NHS & care workforce/staffing118th of 3023.0
What they’ve said
“…Government’s ambitions for not just the 10-year plan but, as has been mentioned, the cardiovascular framework. I am of course minded to listen to anything further that he says.”
Vascular Sector Reform · 2026-09-10 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…essments we also need to speed up and make earlier diagnoses, which is why the Government plan to open four new community diagnostic centres during ’26-27. That expanding capacity will help meet our March ’29 target that no more than 1% of patients should wait over six weeks for a diagnostic test.”
Vascular Sector Reform · 2026-09-10 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…The challenge we face in improving the sensitivity of cardiac arrest identification is to do so in a way that does not generate false positives. Ongoing performance monitoring of NHS pathways finds that the system accepts over-triage; this is an intentional safety feature of triage systems. As the hon.”
Sudden Cardiac Death: Young People · 2026-09-01 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…nical assurance group, which is made up of senior clinicians drawn from royal colleges, professional bodies and urgent and emergency care services. These professionals can and often do submit constructive feedback on the way that pathways are run.”
Sudden Cardiac Death: Young People · 2026-09-01 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…For a radiologist, that means access to the best tools for detecting cancer—tools that can save lives and cut waiting lists in our NHS. The public sector is where it is perhaps most crucial that the Government ensure that we embed frameworks, standards and guidance to ensure that AI is deployed in a way that is fair, t…”
Societal Impact of AI: Government Policy · 2026-07-08 · Read on Hansard ↗
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