Hansard to 12 November 2026 · 31,484 contributions indexed · 1,439 MPs & peers
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Adrian Murdoch
Healthcare Today
Bars cover the last twelve months and show relative volume.
Bylines read on 9 topics since 2 Dec 2025 · latest 9 Nov 2026
- Healthcare Today
This counts only pieces our coverage scan read on the topics Vital Signs tracks, not their full output.
02 Writes on · 9 of 29 topics
Adrian Murdoch: key facts
- Title
- Healthcare Today
- Covers
- Medical ethics & regulation, Cosmetic procedures & aesthetics, Women's health & gynaecologyand 6 more
- Press coverage
- Also citedby our coverage scan, not their full output
- Most recently read
- 9 Nov 2026
- First read
- 2 Dec 2025
03 Beat
What Adrian Murdoch covers
- Medical ethics & regulation
- Cosmetic procedures & aesthetics
- Women's health & gynaecology
- Palliative & end of life care
- A&E & ambulance response
- Health inequalities
- Hospital discharge / bed-blocking
- GP access
- NHS waiting lists
How we found the articles by Adrian Murdoch we read: we searched news for these terms, by topic. Terms for 9 topics
Medical ethics & regulation
- medical ethics
- General Medical Council
- GMC
- fitness to practise
- patient consent
- Mental Capacity Act
- conscientious objection
- medical confidentiality
Also searched with “medical ethics” in each of 8 national papers. Every term for Medical ethics & regulation
Cosmetic procedures & aesthetics
- cosmetic procedures
- non-surgical cosmetic procedures
- Botox
- botulinum toxin
- dermal fillers
- cosmetic fillers
- lip fillers
- aesthetic medicine
Also searched with “cosmetic procedures” in each of 8 national papers, and in the Guardian by editor tag. Every term for Cosmetic procedures & aesthetics
Women's health & gynaecology
- women's health
- gynaecology
- endometriosis
- menopause
- HRT
- cervical screening
- women's health strategy
- women's health hub
Also searched with “women's health” in each of 8 national papers, and in the Guardian by editor tag. Every term for Women's health & gynaecology
Palliative & end of life care
- palliative care
- end of life care
- hospice
- terminal illness
Also searched with “palliative care” in each of 8 national papers, and in the Guardian by editor tag, and in trade press by category. Every term for Palliative & end of life care
A&E & ambulance response
- A&E waiting times
- A&E department
- accident and emergency
- ambulance response times
- ambulance handover
- ambulance waiting
- ambulance service
- emergency department
Also searched with “A&E waiting times” in each of 8 national papers, and in the Guardian by editor tag, and in trade press by category. Every term for A&E & ambulance response
Health inequalities
- health inequalities
- health disparities
- health inequality
- deprivation and health
- healthy life expectancy
- life expectancy gap
- levelling up health
- social determinants of health
Also searched with “health inequalities” in each of 8 national papers. Every term for Health inequalities
Hospital discharge / bed-blocking
- hospital discharge
- delayed discharge
- bed blocking
- bed-blocking
- discharge to assess
- delayed transfers of care
- discharge delays
- step-down care
Also searched with “hospital discharge” in each of 8 national papers, and in the Guardian by editor tag, and in trade press by category. Every term for Hospital discharge / bed-blocking
GP access
- GP access
- general practice
- GP appointments
- primary care access
- GP shortage
Also searched with “GP access” in each of 8 national papers, and in the Guardian by editor tag, and in trade press by category. Every term for GP access
NHS waiting lists
- NHS waiting list
- waiting list
- elective waiting times
- elective recovery
- elective backlog
- waiting list backlog
- referral to treatment
- RTT
Also searched with “NHS waiting list” in each of 8 national papers, and in the Guardian by editor tag. Every term for NHS waiting lists
04 Who they quote
Who Adrian Murdoch calls
Voices credited in their pieces. A reporter who has called someone before is likely to call them again.
- Dr Alexander ZargaranClinician
- Dr Alison WrightClinician
- Dame Lesley ReganRegulator
- David ZargaranAcademic
- Clive BettsSector leader
- Gareth DaviesRegulator
- Liz BooyseSector leader
- Amer RazaClinician
- Prof Vivien LeesClinician
- Dr Katie BramallUnion
- Stefan KalleeRegulator
- Professor Pushpinder MangatRegulator
- Ciarán DevaneSector leader
- Nora NugentClinician
- Rajiv GroverClinician
Showing the voices quoted most often; more are credited in their coverage.
05 The record
Recent articles
- 9 Nov 2026
- 6 Oct 2026
- 29 Sept 2026Few improvements in A&E
Healthcare TodayA&E & ambulance response
- 14 Sept 2026Özgür Tuncer: Health and vaccine equity
Healthcare TodayHealth inequalities
- 11 Sept 2026NMC upgrades technology
Healthcare TodayMedical ethics & regulation
- 26 May 2026
- 28 Apr 2026
- 30 Mar 2026
- 3 Mar 2026
- 27 Feb 2026
- 19 Feb 2026
- 22 Jan 2026
- 21 Jan 2026
- 13 Jan 2026
- 4 Dec 2025Online platforms threaten patient safety
Healthcare TodayGP access
- 2 Dec 2025
- 2 Dec 2025
Bylines and quoted sources are read automatically from UK coverage of the topics Vital Signs tracks, so this page reflects what our scan has read rather than a complete record. Where a biography appears, it is published by the outlet itself about its own correspondent, and linked above. Photographs come from the outlet’s own byline or author page, or from the journalist’s LinkedIn profile, and each is credited under the picture. Social accounts are not held: asserting an unverified one would attach a real person to an account that might not be theirs. See the methodology, or email contact@bridgeheadcommunications.com to correct anything on it.