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John's Campaign And The Right To Stay With Dementia Patients In Hospital

EDM number 586 in 2014-15, proposed by Valerie Vaz on 02/12/2014.
Categorised under the topics of Diseases, Health services and Patient rights and complaints.

That this House notes that there are 800,000 people in the UK with dementia and that one in three people over the age of 65 will develop the condition; praises the families and carers of patients with dementia who are vulnerable and can often be distressed and disoriented; further notes an article in The Observer newspaper on 30 November 2014 by Nicci Gerrard whose father, Dr John Gerrard, was diagnosed with Alzheimer's in his mid-seventies and died in November 2014; further notes that his family were restricted in the amount of time they were able to spend with him in hospital when he was admitted in February 2014 for a separate condition; further notes that his family were not able to provide a continuation of his normal life when in hospital, such as talking and reading to him and that as a result when he came out of hospital his Alzheimer's had worsened; and calls on the Government to support the same rights for families and carers of dementia sufferers as parents of sick children and allow for family representatives to stay with the patients at any time of the day as dementia sufferers can struggle to understand and communicate with strangers in unusual surroundings.

This motion has been signed by a total of 58 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Valerie Vaz02/12/2014Walsall SouthLabourProposed
Peter Bottomley02/12/2014Worthing WestConservativeSeconded
Nigel Dodds03/12/2014Belfast NorthDUPSeconded
Jim Shannon03/12/2014StrangfordDUPSeconded
Alan Meale03/12/2014MansfieldLabourSeconded
Lady Hermon03/12/2014North DownIndependentSeconded
Kelvin Hopkins03/12/2014Luton NorthLabourSigned
Virendra Sharma03/12/2014Ealing, SouthallLabourSigned
Grahame Morris04/12/2014EasingtonLabourSigned
Bob Russell04/12/2014ColchesterLiberal DemocratSigned
Mary Glindon04/12/2014North TynesideLabourSigned
David Heyes04/12/2014Ashton-under-LyneLabourSigned
Steve Rotheram04/12/2014Liverpool, WaltonLabourSigned
Fiona O'Donnell04/12/2014East LothianLabourSigned
Debbie Abrahams04/12/2014Oldham East and SaddleworthLabourSigned
Alex Cunningham04/12/2014Stockton NorthLabourSigned
Chris Williamson04/12/2014Derby NorthLabourSigned
Ann Coffey04/12/2014StockportLabourSigned
Martin Caton04/12/2014GowerLabourSigned
David Ward04/12/2014Bradford EastLiberal DemocratSigned
Anne Begg04/12/2014Aberdeen SouthLabourSigned
Mike Hancock05/12/2014Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSigned
Graham Brady05/12/2014Altrincham and Sale WestConservativeSigned
Mark Williams05/12/2014CeredigionLiberal DemocratSigned
Sammy Wilson08/12/2014East AntrimDUPSigned
Philip Davies08/12/2014ShipleyConservativeSigned
David Crausby08/12/2014Bolton North EastLabourSigned
Keith Vaz08/12/2014Leicester EastLabourSigned
Joan Walley08/12/2014Stoke-on-Trent NorthLabourSigned
Jim McGovern09/12/2014Dundee WestLabourSigned
John Leech09/12/2014Manchester, WithingtonLiberal DemocratSigned
Nick Harvey09/12/2014North DevonLiberal DemocratSigned
William McCrea10/12/2014South AntrimDUPSigned
Michael Crockart10/12/2014Edinburgh WestLiberal DemocratSigned
Linda Riordan10/12/2014HalifaxLabourSigned
Naomi Long11/12/2014Belfast EastAllianceSigned
Diane Abbott15/12/2014Hackney North and Stoke NewingtonLabourSigned
Annette Brooke15/12/2014Mid Dorset and North PooleLiberal DemocratSigned
Jeffrey M Donaldson15/12/2014Lagan ValleyDUPSigned
Roger Godsiff15/12/2014Birmingham, Hall GreenLabourSigned
Roberta Blackman-Woods17/12/2014City of DurhamLabourSigned
Paul Farrelly18/12/2014Newcastle-under-LymeLabourSigned
Greg Mulholland18/12/2014Leeds North WestLiberal DemocratSigned
Caroline Lucas05/01/2015Brighton, PavilionGreenSigned
Gregory Campbell06/01/2015East LondonderryDUPSigned
Tim Farron08/01/2015Westmorland and LonsdaleLiberal DemocratSigned
Stephen Lloyd08/01/2015EastbourneLiberal DemocratSigned
Emily Thornberry13/01/2015Islington South and FinsburyLabourSigned
Frank Doran14/01/2015Aberdeen NorthLabourSigned
Charlotte Leslie14/01/2015Bristol North WestConservativeSigned
Katy Clark14/01/2015North Ayrshire and ArranLabourSigned
Charles Kennedy20/01/2015Ross, Skye and LochaberLiberal DemocratSigned
George Galloway11/02/2015Bradford WestRespectSigned
Jeremy Corbyn12/02/2015Islington NorthLabourSigned
Albert Owen24/02/2015Ynys MLabourSigned
Fabian Hamilton16/03/2015Leeds North EastLabourSigned
Ronnie Campbell19/03/2015Blyth ValleyLabourSigned
Rosie Cooper25/03/2015West LancashireLabourSigned

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