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Baroness Merron (Lab)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 19 March 2026

Debate

Unpaid Carers: Patient Hospital Discharge

Contribution

The whole system needs to do better, as the noble Lord outlines. It will be helpful that we are also looking at commissioning research in this area to look at best practice, as well as barriers and solutions, regarding the involvement of unpaid carers—I think that has been somewhat overlooked, if I am to be honest with your Lordships’ House. We have regional teams that have issued very practical toolkits to help hospitals implement their legal duties; we should remember that there are legal duties in this response. In addition, that is why we are involving the LGA’s better care fund support programme, as I said, as well as seeking to publish a cross-government action plan. These will be steps in the right direction, but I very much acknowledge that we do not start in a good place.

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