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Baroness Merron (Lab)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 15 September 2026

Debate

Neighbourhood Health and Social Care

Contribution

My noble friend is right to identify that, if we are going to deliver neighbourhood healthcare and make improvements in social care, we have to join up the NHS and local government. That is key to our whole approach to neighbourhood health. That is why health and well-being boards, which are responsible for drawing up the local plans for what the locality needs, will bring together and have on them local authority representation and voice, along with the NHS and others. We will manage this only by doing so, because, in order to reduce health inequalities and deliver locally, it cannot just sit with one. I am grateful to local government for what it is doing.

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