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Baroness Merron (Lab)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 18 May 2026

Debate

Healthy Life Expectancy: England

Contribution

My noble friend is right to ask about maximising prevention, as that will be a key shift in our National Health Service. In addition to the points I have already made, we are working within the NHS to do more to support our approach to prevention. In addition to what I have already mentioned and the system changes, we will, for example, strengthen our vaccination and screening programmes, including by improving the uptake of child immunisation. We are working to improve the detection, treatment and management of the behavioural and clinical risk factors that drive this burden of disease and affect healthy life expectancy.

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