Biography
Patrick Hurley has engaged with health and social care topics primarily through debate speeches, with particular focus on cardiovascular disease, cancer, and NHS waiting lists. His contributions reflect both personal experience—notably discussing his father's death from oesophageal cancer 20 years ago—and constituency concerns, including remarks on how complex health needs intersect with rough sleeping and access to services. He has also raised broader public health challenges, welcoming the Government's ambition to reduce premature deaths from heart disease and stroke while noting a worrying reversal in progress.
Generated from their own Hansard record, below
“…directly and to get them into emergency accommodation, rather than expecting those with addiction issues, poor mental health and chaotic lives to navigate the bureaucracy before they can obtain help?…”
Record by topic
- Mental health386th of 8809.0
- Public health & prevention252nd of 6886.0
- Heart disease & stroke174th of 3983.0
- Diabetes68th of 1903.0
- Elderly care & frailty76th of 2363.0
- GP access93rd of 2413.0
- Health inequalities135th of 2883.0
- A&E & ambulance response107th of 2583.0
- NHS waiting lists323rd of 5343.0
- Cancer365th of 6223.0
What they’ve said
“…Gentleman gets home this evening, I imagine. The Government’s aim to reduce premature deaths from heart disease and stroke by 25% over the next decade is welcome, ambitious and absolutely necessary. Cardiovascular disease remains one of the biggest public health challenges that this country faces.”
Heart Disease and Stroke: Premature Deaths · 2026-07-02 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…ving through profound economic change, with automation, artificial intelligence, changing labour markets and an ageing population. We simply cannot operate on the assumption that education happens only once, in our late teens or early 20s, and then stops.”
Lifelong Learning: “University of the Air” White Paper · 2026-06-16 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…Leader of the Opposition, my constituents are more concerned with the NHS and waiting lists. Thanks to this Government, across England, waiting lists are coming down. In my part of the country, waiting lists have fallen by 13,000 in the past year alone.”
Engagements · 2026-04-22 · Read on Hansard ↗
“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Sir John. My hon. Friend the Member for Leigh and Atherton (Jo Platt) said that ownership matters. She is spot on. Ownership affects who makes decisions and who benefits from those decisions.”
Social Enterprises and Community Ownership · 2026-03-18 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…orly qualified, unskilled lad in his late teens, living in a town with few opportunities, and suffering with my mental health because I could not see a way out. By way of contrast, these days my city region is benefiting from the award-winning Cradle to Career scheme, which provides holistic mental health and wellbeing…”
Place-based Employment Support Programmes · 2026-02-10 · Read on Hansard ↗
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