Part of Backbench Business – in Westminster Hall at 2:27 pm on 26 February 2026.
Wera Hobhouse
Liberal Democrat, Bath
2:27,
26 February 2026
One of the most harrowing things that we hear again and again when taking evidence in the APPG is how families feel completely abandoned. People have to give up work, often over years, because they are meant to care for someone with a severe condition and they do not have the capacity to do so by themselves. It is only when that condition is finally so bad that the loved one is then readmitted to hospital. That revolving door must end. The human cost to that tragedy—apart from the cost to the NHS—must end. It is absolutely tragic and wrong.