Baroness Merron
The Baroness Merron
Labour
•House of Lords•ActiveMember since 28 January 2021
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NHS and Social Care: Joint Working
25/06/2025 • Lords
The noble Baroness is quite right in her observations on the need to move to much better services here. First, on her point about discharge letters, a...
Well, it is absolutely part of training, and the movement towards that integration of understanding across both sectors has been continuing for some w...
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Diabetes: 10-Year Health Plan
25/06/2025 • Lords
All the usual provisions will apply, but, as we develop the system, all that detail will be confirmed. I will ensure that the point the noble Lord rai...
Fracture liaison services do an incredible job. I refer the noble Baroness to the words of the Secretary of State—I will not quote them because I do n...
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Perinatal Mental Health
24/06/2025 • Lords
My noble friend raises a very useful consideration. Decisions about how long a new mother stays in hospital are a local matter and specific to that wo...
As the noble Baroness is aware, the long-awaited 10-year plan will be with us shortly. That will set out the parameters for change and the services th...
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NHS: Private Equity
24/06/2025 • Lords
I fear I am not able to answer in the detail that the noble Baroness would like, but I would be delighted to write to her.
I thank the noble Lord for seeking that reassurance, which I can indeed give.
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That the draft Regulations laid before the House on 3 April and 29 April be approved.
Relevant documents: 23rd and 25th Repor...
Care Workers: Foreign Worker Visas
17/06/2025 • Lords
I wholeheartedly agree with what the noble Lord said. I find that a kind heart is a good thing in most professions, but we also require more skills in...
As noble Lords will be aware, the Employment Rights Bill establishes a framework for fair pay agreements. That will mean an agreement through which ad...
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Perhaps it would be best on this occasion if I review what the noble Lord has said and what I have said and write to him to clarify anything that is n...
I am just waiting for a bit of inspiration.
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Human Medicines (Amendments Relating to Hub and Spoke Dispensing etc.) Regulations 2025
16/06/2025 • Lords
It is not possible to predict—although I do not think the noble Lord, Lord Scriven, is asking me to do so—how many pharmacies will take up this arrang...
Perhaps it might be helpful to noble Lords if I refer to the Competition and Markets Authority in this regard because it noted that the proposed amend...
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Learning Disabilities Nursing
16/06/2025 • Lords
Certainly, apprenticeships are important, and that is one of the ways we have expanded the routes into the nursing profession, including learning disa...
This is indeed a vulnerable group, as the noble Lord says, and it is probably best that I refer to the upcoming 10-year plan, which will deal with ine...
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Adult Social Care
15/06/2025 • Lords
The noble and learned Baroness is absolutely right about status, which assists retention as well as recruitment. Clearly, the first ever fair pay agre...
In general terms, of course, the independent commission into adult social care will be part of our critical first steps towards delivering a national ...
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