Biography
Rachael Maskell has engaged extensively on health and social care through 40 debate speeches, with particularly strong focus on palliative care and end-of-life provision, mental health services, and public health prevention. She has repeatedly highlighted specific evidence—such as 170,000 people lacking access to palliative care and research showing specialist care could save the NHS £817 million—and called for policy action including funding reform and cross-departmental coordination. Her contributions span health inequalities, workforce issues, and emerging challenges like heat-related mortality and foetal alcohol spectrum disorder, often connecting health outcomes to systemic failures in accountability and local service integration.
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“I led the independent commission on palliative care, and the data shows a worsening of palliative care; 170,000 people do not have access to the care that they need, and even those who are able to access palliative care may not have access to specialist techniques such as neuromodulation and palliative radiotherapy, an…”
Record by topic
- Mental health20th of 88099.0
- Learning disability & autism26th of 89969.0
- Palliative & end of life care17th of 56866.0
- Public health & prevention17th of 68845.0
- Cancer34th of 62233.0
- NHS waiting lists31st of 53424.0
- Heart disease & stroke10th of 39824.0
- Dementia18th of 25112.0
- Assisted dying62nd of 37112.0
- Respiratory (asthma/COPD)11th of 14212.0
- A&E & ambulance response34th of 2589.0
- Dentistry access41st of 1949.0
- Elderly care & frailty14th of 2369.0
- Adult social care & reform61st of 3769.0
- NHS & care workforce/staffing61st of 3026.0
- Unpaid carers92nd of 2836.0
- Children's health28th of 1576.0
- Maternity & neonatal138th of 4386.0
- Rare diseases80th of 2023.0
- Diabetes68th of 1903.0
- Health inequalities135th of 2883.0
What they’ve said
“…It is a real privilege to be able to access vaccine programmes. They are the most effective public health interventions, and there are 15 vaccine-preventable infections against which we can be inoculated.”
Vaccination Rates: England · 2026-09-03 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…Friend to his role. Ten months ago, my constituents were promised a public inquiry into our mental health trust, after 10 years of campaigning for it. People have died in the interim, and it is simply unacceptable.”
Direction of Government · 2026-09-01 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…We know about not only the distress that this causes—respiratory or cardiovascular distress—but the serious risk of kidney dysfunction and so much more we could name.”
Extreme Heat: Preparedness · 2026-07-14 · Read on Hansard ↗
“Research shows that specialist palliative care can deliver palliative care in the community, saving the NHS 1.5 million bed days, as well as £817 million. It is important that funding accompanies the modern service framework, so that we have an invest-to-save model moving forward.”
Topical Questions · 2026-07-14 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…to healthcare and pharmaceuticals; disability, disruption and displacement; prevalence of disease and hastened frailty; and an environment of climate change, floods and famine. Gender-based violence scars the lives of its survivors.”
Conflicts: Impact on Older People · 2026-07-09 · Read on Hansard ↗
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