Biography
Tom Collins has engaged substantively with health and social care topics primarily through debate speeches, with particular emphasis on palliative care and end-of-life provision, drawing on his personal experience of his mother's death from ovarian cancer to argue for better NHS integration of specialist care. He has also spoken on diabetes management in sport, type 1 diabetes and disordered eating services, and kinship carer support, alongside contributions to broader health policy debates including medical device regulation and budget resolutions affecting NHS funding and primary care access in his Worcester constituency.
Generated from their own Hansard record, below
“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.”
Record by topic
- Mental health241st of 88015.0
- Diabetes21st of 1909.0
- Unpaid carers92nd of 2836.0
- Learning disability & autism466th of 8996.0
- Palliative & end of life care213th of 5686.0
- Public health & prevention417th of 6883.0
- Assisted dying193rd of 3713.0
- A&E & ambulance response107th of 2583.0
- Cancer365th of 6223.0
- Elderly care & frailty76th of 2363.0
What they’ve said
“…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 ↗
“…People who rely on continuous insulin therapy, such as those with type 1 diabetes, depend on devices—insulin pumps, primarily—to live their daily lives. Their interaction with the pump is frequent—the relationship is deep—and the device plays a significant role in their life.”
Draft Medical Devices (Fees Amendment) Regulations 2026 · 2026-01-21 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…nform how safe or harmful that would be, but I suggest that all the knowledge that exists in the psychology and psychiatric communities would probably point to it being extremely risky and dangerous. We have discussed recommendation algorithms at length.”
Online Safety Act 2023: Repeal · 2025-12-15 · Read on Hansard ↗
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