Biography
Mr Francois has engaged extensively on health and social care through 38 debate speeches, with a particular focus on heart disease and stroke prevention, where he advocated for greater use of mechanical thrombectomy as a more accurate treatment method than thrombolysis. While his recent contributions span multiple health topics including NHS waiting lists, mental health, and social care workforce issues, the extracts provided primarily reflect his substantive engagement on Armed Forces Bill matters relating to education, health records transfer for veterans, and mental health support for service personnel and their families.
Generated from their own Hansard record, below
“For many years, stroke units have had access to thrombolysis—or “the shot”, as it is known in the trade. However, that is a very rough way of doing it, and it can have side effects and impede a patient’s recovery.”
Record by topic
- Learning disability & autism21st of 89975.0
- Heart disease & stroke41st of 3989.0
- NHS waiting lists207th of 5346.0
- Palliative & end of life care213th of 5686.0
- Respiratory (asthma/COPD)47th of 1423.0
- Adult social care & reform186th of 3763.0
- A&E & ambulance response107th of 2583.0
- NHS & care workforce/staffing118th of 3023.0
- Dementia108th of 2513.0
- Maternity & neonatal238th of 4383.0
- Mental health654th of 8803.0
What they’ve said
“It is a pleasure to speak in this important debate about preventing premature death from heart disease and stroke. I congratulate the hon. Member for South Ribble (Mr Foster) on securing the debate and introducing it so ably.”
Heart Disease and Stroke: Premature Deaths · 2026-07-02 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…l are often moving at the behest of the state, the state has a moral duty under the covenant to ensure that any EHCP—and, as we all know from our constituency work, obtaining EHCPs is often a tortuous process—is then fully transferable. When we debated that in Committee, we received considerable support from the hon.”
Armed Forces Bill · 2026-06-22 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…ment 3—in this primary legislation, which was our preferred route, now that we know there will be a new Bill on special educational needs, they should seek to address the problem in that Bill, and because it is a Department for Education Bill, hopefully local education authorities will then give it considerable weight.”
Armed Forces Bill · 2026-06-22 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…Our amendments 3, 4 and 5 are on the subjects of special educational needs, the related matters of fostering and adoption, and care in the national health service.”
Armed Forces Bill · 2026-06-22 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…ransfer order a few months in advance, then unless they can be certain that the receiving LEA will accept their EHCP, which they may have gone through a bureaucratic minefield to achieve—I am sure we all have individual examples from our constituencies—are they going to risk it? Will they stick or twist? Or will they l…”
Armed Forces Bill · 2026-06-02 · Read on Hansard ↗
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