New bill would grant legal right to visit loved ones in hospital or living care

The Labour MP Dan Carden today proposed a 10 minute rule bill which, if passed, would give right to users of health and care services to be accompanied by ‘care supporter’.

Mr Carden has previously spoken of the trauma his family experienced when they were unable to see his father, who was dying of lung cancer in hospital.

He said today: “No one in this House was left untouched from the trauma of the coronavirus pandemic. I think that we can all agree on the principle that whether it’s whether it is the state or a privately run care home or a hospital, it does not have the right to separate us from our family and loved one”.