Tom Collins
Worcester
LabourOverall, across health & social care this Parliament
Get a doctor in here!
Ranks 440th of 1273 MPs and peers who have spoken on health or care this Parliament — top 35%. 14 contributions since 2024-10-31.
Record by topic
- Mental health226th of 86915.0
- Diabetes20th of 1879.0
- Unpaid carers91st of 2776.0
- Learning disability & autism548th of 9676.0
- Palliative & end of life care231st of 5736.0
- Cancer355th of 6133.0
- A&E & ambulance response100th of 2483.0
- Elderly care & frailty72nd of 2273.0
- Public health & prevention460th of 7343.0
What they’ve said
“I thank my hon. Friend the Member for York Central (Rachael Maskell) for leading on this topic. I have seen palliative care fail. My mum, Alison, had ovarian cancer. She died lonely and in dreadful indignity in a hospital ward intended for recovering liver and kidney patients.”
Palliative Care · 2026-03-05 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…We need far better integration across those services. I was heartbroken to see that the palliative care that my mother was receiving seemed to have been outsourced to charities, and was not being provided by the NHS at all. That specialist care ought to be something that is native to our NHS.”
Palliative Care · 2026-03-05 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…re being raised by members of their extended family, or by friends of their family: they are being cared for by kinship carers. An ever-increasing number of children are now in kinship care, and staying with a family member or friend has a range of benefits over being looked after by the state.”
Kinship Carer Identification · 2026-02-23 · Read on Hansard ↗
“It is true that there is a real diversity in the situations of kinship carers, both in the causes of people finding themselves caring for young people and in the legal structures that they are operating under.”
Kinship Carer Identification · 2026-02-23 · Read on Hansard ↗