Biography
Sarah Gibson has engaged substantially on health and social care topics through 16 debate speeches, with particular focus on NHS dentistry access in rural areas, where she secured an Adjournment debate in November 2024 to highlight service closures and contract reform needs. She has also contributed to discussions on adult social care worker pay and conditions, employment rights for carers, and the role of schools in supporting children with learning difficulties and autism. Her engagement reflects concerns specific to her rural Wiltshire constituency alongside broader systemic issues in health service delivery.
Generated from their own Hansard record, below
“On the subject of getting young people into farming, my local agricultural college tells me that when it tries to send students to help on farms, the farmers find it extremely difficult to find a use for them, because getting a licence to drive high-level agricultural equipment is so expensive that students from lower-…”
Record by topic
- Dentistry access5th of 19433.0
- Learning disability & autism654th of 8993.0
- Maternity & neonatal238th of 4383.0
- Mental health654th of 8803.0
- Public health & prevention417th of 6883.0
- Adult social care & reform186th of 3763.0
What they’ve said
“…Our hope for the adult social care negotiating body, similar to that for the SSSNB, is that having a uniform body can help to negotiate and address some of the issues that he highlighted, such as the poor pay and terms and conditions that a lot of adult social care workers suffer.”
Employment Rights Bill (Fourteenth sitting) · 2024-12-17 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…free schools have done very well is cater for children with learning difficulties, whether they are dyslexic or autistic, or doing all the other things that probably many of us in this room have benefited from.”
Employment Rights Bill (Fourteenth sitting) · 2024-12-17 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…Very many carers end up in poverty as a result. We know that there are higher rates of physical and mental health problems among carers because of the poverty, the strains caused by caring and the difficulties of balancing caring work with paid work.”
Employment Rights Bill (Fourth sitting) · 2024-11-28 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…Does my hon. Friend not agree that we need to look at a serious timeline for reviewing the dental contract? We cannot only talk about emergencies all the time.…”
NHS Dentistry: South-west · 2024-11-12 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…They find that they are subsidising their NHS dentistry with private dentistry, to the point that it is no longer sustainable. Another issue that is prevalent in most rural areas, and certainly in the south-west, is recruitment.”
NHS Dentistry: Rural Areas · 2024-11-05 · Read on Hansard ↗
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