“The homeless often lose trust in people: in the hospital doctors, who had no choice but to discharge them back on to the streets, and in the family members from whom they have become estranged. Their past use of the NHS can make it difficult to patch together a full medical history.”

British politician, born 1965

Sir Edward Jonathan Davey is a British politician. Born in 1965, he has led the Liberal Democrats since 2019 and is best known for his long parliamentary career and senior role in government. He served as Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change from 2012 to 2015 in the Cameron-Clegg coalition, and was Deputy Leader to Jo Swinson in 2019. An "Orange Book" liberal, he has been MP for Kingston and Surbiton since 2017, after previously holding the seat from 1997 to 2015.