Biography
Paul Waugh has engaged with health and social care topics primarily through Commons debate speeches, with a particular focus on maternity services, NHS staffing challenges, and end-of-life care. His contributions emphasise workforce issues, notably advocating for increased midwife numbers to ensure safe staffing levels in maternity services, and addressing corridor care in hospitals as a systemic staffing problem. He has also highlighted health-related constituent concerns, including cancer patients' worries about heating costs and the mental health impacts of council tax debt collection.
Generated from their own Hansard record, below
“…Like many NHS workers, she struggles against the odds and sees on a daily basis the impact of corridor care. Does she agree that NHS staff feel frustration with corridor care as much as patients do, and that they want to act and see it end as much as anyone else? Crucially, the key is more staff.”
Record by topic
- Palliative & end of life care105th of 56815.0
- Maternity & neonatal50th of 43815.0
- Assisted dying62nd of 37112.0
- Cancer126th of 62212.0
- Learning disability & autism382nd of 8999.0
- Mental health386th of 8809.0
- NHS & care workforce/staffing41st of 3029.0
- Public health & prevention417th of 6883.0
- Respiratory (asthma/COPD)47th of 1423.0
- NHS waiting lists323rd of 5343.0
- Heart disease & stroke174th of 3983.0
- Dementia108th of 2513.0
- Hospital discharge / bed-blocking41st of 1393.0
What they’ve said
“…Sherwood Forest (Michelle Welsh), who has done a brilliant job with the all-party parliamentary group on maternity and who explained today, by outlining her own personal experience, just what birth trauma can mean.”
Maternity Commissioner · 2026-04-20 · Read on Hansard ↗
“Council tax arrears can be devastating for people’s finances and mental health, so I warmly welcome the Government’s changes to the debt collection rules today, which mean that people will not be tipped further into poverty by a single missed payment.”
Business of the House · 2026-04-16 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…We need to ask how we can provide alternative role models for our boys and young men. How can we help their mental health? How can we repair their trauma? How can we tackle the lack of fulfilling jobs, careers and housing that is so often at the root of scapegoating—whether that is the scapegoating of women, Jews, Musl…”
Online Harms · 2026-03-19 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…Both Barrie and Gill have cancer, and they are worried sick about the price spike that they are seeing at the moment. Can my hon. Friend reassure me that the scheme will be flexible enough to take into account the needs of families like the Fultons? Does he also think there is a certain irony in Opposition Members comp…”
Heating Oil Support · 2026-03-16 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…tball club recently returned from its tour of Bangladesh, where members met street children, blind children and autistic children who were helped by the amazing £20,000 that the club had raised for charity.”
Business of the House · 2026-03-12 · Read on Hansard ↗
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