Biography
Sir Julian Lewis has engaged with health and social care through 33 debate speeches, covering a broad range of topics including rare diseases, mental health, palliative and end-of-life care, NHS workforce issues, and waiting lists. His contributions have frequently focused on specific cases affecting his constituents and particular healthcare challenges, such as advocating for early diagnosis and treatment of neuropsychiatric conditions like PANS and PANDAS, highlighting compensation issues for infected blood victims, and raising concerns about children's palliative care provision. He has also pursued health-related issues through parliamentary business requests, including questions about support for chronically ill constituents and prostate cancer policy review progress.
Generated from their own Hansard record, below
“…I am therefore slightly surprised that the Haemophilia Society, which is a great champion for the community, says that in its opinion, care provided by family members is not being fairly compensated.”
Record by topic
- Mental health290th of 88012.0
- Palliative & end of life care125th of 56812.0
- NHS & care workforce/staffing41st of 3029.0
- NHS waiting lists140th of 5349.0
- Learning disability & autism382nd of 8999.0
- Rare diseases28th of 2029.0
- Dentistry access41st of 1949.0
- Maternity & neonatal138th of 4386.0
- Cancer230th of 6226.0
- Children's health28th of 1576.0
- Assisted dying116th of 3716.0
- Adult social care & reform186th of 3763.0
- Health inequalities135th of 2883.0
- Elderly care & frailty76th of 2363.0
What they’ve said
“May we have a statement from a Work and Pensions Minister on the lack of routes through which right hon. and hon. Members can contact the Department on behalf of constituents who, as in the case of one chronically ill lady whom I represent, have lost universal credit and wish to challenge that? She has been struggling…”
Business of the House · 2026-07-02 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…The Minister said that NICE has “no plans to issue guidance on paediatric acute-onset neuropsychiatric syndrome (PANS) and paediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorder associated with streptococcus (PANDAS)”.”
Neuropsychiatric Conditions: PANS and PANDAS · 2026-06-25 · Read on Hansard ↗
“This debate has been characterised by so many powerful speeches that I think it would be invidious to pick out any of them. I congratulate everyone who has contributed, particularly the Government Back Benchers who have evidently come to the debate espousing the principle that the best defence is attack.”
Defence Spending and Readiness · 2026-06-23 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…He came to see me in August 2023. He was diagnosed as haemophiliac as an eight-year-old in the late 1960s. He thinks that he was infected with hepatitis C in 1974, which persisted for nearly 15 years before it eventually cleared from his system.”
Infected Blood Compensation Scheme · 2026-06-18 · Read on Hansard ↗
“Returning to the important points about mental health made by the hon. Member for York Central (Rachael Maskell), I draw the Minister’s attention to paragraphs 424 and 425 of the report, which states: “It is mental health conditions that are now the most commonly reported health condition among NEET young people…This e…”
Milburn Review: Interim Report · 2026-06-02 · Read on Hansard ↗
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