Biography
Sojan Joseph has engaged substantively across health and social care through 40 debate speeches, with particular focus on mental health prevention, SEND provision, adult social care, and NHS pressures including A&E corridor care and patient record systems. Drawing on his background as an NHS nurse in mental health services, he has advocated for preventive public health approaches, highlighted local service developments such as same-day emergency care expansion, and consistently raised concerns about SEND provision failures in Kent and support for unpaid carers. His contributions reflect engagement with constituents on vaccination rates, meningitis outbreaks, and health inequalities, alongside support for workforce training on wider health determinants.
Generated from their own Hansard record, below
“…Kent generally, cannot wait any longer to see an improvement in their roads, bus services, social care and SEND provision. They were let down by decades of Tory administration, and are now being let down by Reform.”
Record by topic
- Mental health5th of 880222.0
- Assisted dying21st of 37142.0
- Palliative & end of life care32nd of 56842.0
- A&E & ambulance response6th of 25836.0
- Learning disability & autism122nd of 89930.0
- NHS waiting lists25th of 53427.0
- Adult social care & reform20th of 37621.0
- Hospital discharge / bed-blocking10th of 13915.0
- NHS & care workforce/staffing25th of 30212.0
- Cancer126th of 62212.0
- Public health & prevention183rd of 6889.0
- Maternity & neonatal138th of 4386.0
- Elderly care & frailty76th of 2363.0
- Respiratory (asthma/COPD)47th of 1423.0
- Health inequalities135th of 2883.0
- Unpaid carers158th of 2833.0
- GP access93rd of 2413.0
- Children's health56th of 1573.0
- Heart disease & stroke174th of 3983.0
What they’ve said
“…Their swift response helped to ensure that clear public health advice was communicated and that vaccination programmes could be rapidly rolled out. Although I warmly welcome that action, at the time of the outbreak I joined colleagues from across the House in calling for more to be done.”
Vaccination Rates: England · 2026-09-03 · Read on Hansard ↗
“It is good to see you in the Chair, Ms Lewell. I strongly believe that public health is very important to our health system because it focuses on prevention, so that people do not end up in A&E or in hospital beds. Unfortunately, over the last 10 or 15 years we have seen the opposite.”
Health Bill (Fifteenth sitting) · 2026-07-09 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…We also have a safe haven for mental health patients who do not need to go into accident and emergency. Lots of work is happening in my local hospital area, which will make a big improvement to corridor care and wider emergency care pressures.”
Health Bill (Fifteenth sitting) · 2026-07-09 · Read on Hansard ↗
“As the chair of the APPG on adult social care, I pay tribute to unpaid carers for the enormous contribution they make to their families, their communities and wider society. I often have meetings with them, and as part of my job before I became an MP—I worked in the NHS—I had a lot of contact with carers.”
Health Bill (Fifteenth sitting) · 2026-07-09 · Read on Hansard ↗
“My hon. Friend makes a sensible comment. I work closely with her on mental health, and she is absolutely right. Some of the policies the Government have introduced, such as giving children early access to mental health provision, will be absolutely vital to prevent them from becoming unwell later on.”
Health Bill (Fifteenth sitting) · 2026-07-09 · Read on Hansard ↗
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