Biography
Peter Dowd has engaged with health and social care topics primarily through debate speeches, with contributions spanning stroke prevention, obesity and health inequalities, rare cancers, and rare autoimmune rheumatic diseases. His interventions have emphasised the importance of patient and charity involvement in raising health issues before Parliament, and he has highlighted connections between health outcomes and wider social factors such as equality. He has also raised mental health concerns in the context of suicide prevention, linking this to a Bill on multi-storey car park safety.
Generated from their own Hansard record, below
“Does my hon. Friend agree that organisations such as the one he mentioned, the Stroke Association and others have a vital role to play in bringing these matters to the attention of this House for as long as it takes?”
Record by topic
- Rare diseases46th of 2026.0
- Heart disease & stroke174th of 3983.0
- Health inequalities135th of 2883.0
- Cancer365th of 6223.0
- Mental health654th of 8803.0
- Public health & prevention417th of 6883.0
- Maternity & neonatal238th of 4383.0
What they’ve said
“…my constituency, that would equate to about 29 deaths a year, but I suspect the figure would be much higher if health inequalities were factored in, given that the rate of the disease is five times as high in the most deprived areas, of which mine is one.”
Obesity and Fatty Liver Disease · 2025-10-28 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…Will the Government look carefully at its contents as part of a national suicide prevention strategy?…”
Engagements · 2025-07-02 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…We owe it to those affected by rare cancers to champion their needs, treatment and lives. The proposed legislation would be a starting point—a first base. It will enable and facilitate the promotion of research into rare cancers and better access to clinical trials, as has been said, and initiate a review of marketing…”
Rare Cancers Bill · 2025-03-14 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…Paternity and maternity leave was eschewed because it was said to damage industry, but did it do so? No, it did not. Research from Barclays shows that working hours in the UK have fallen by 5% on average in the past four decades, with British workers now working 27% more hours on average than their German counterparts.”
Employment Rights Bill · 2025-03-11 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…The whole question of rare autoimmune rheumatic disease needs to be set in the context of the wider issue of rare diseases, which are conditions that affect less than one in 2,000 people. There are 7,000 rare diseases, affecting one in 17 people, which is 3.5 million people.”
Rare Autoimmune Rheumatic Diseases · 2024-12-10 · Read on Hansard ↗
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