Hansard to 12 November 2026 · 31,484 contributions indexed · 1,439 MPs & peers
All journalists01 Journalist · bbc.com · Adult social care & reform
Vikki Irwin
bbc.com and 1 other title
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Bylines read on 6 topics since 25 Nov 2025 · latest 3 Nov 2026
- bbc.com
- BBC
This counts only pieces our coverage scan read on the topics Vital Signs tracks, not their full output.
02 Writes on · 6 of 29 topics
Vikki Irwin: key facts
- Main title
- bbc.com
- Covers
- Adult social care & reform, Hospital discharge / bed-blocking, Children's healthand 3 more
- Press coverage
- Bylined in the pressby our coverage scan, not their full output
- Most recently read
- 3 Nov 2026
- First read
- 25 Nov 2025
03 Beat
What Vikki Irwin covers
- Adult social care & reform
- Hospital discharge / bed-blocking
- Children's health
- Maternity & neonatal
- Mental health
- Learning disability & autism
How we found the articles by Vikki Irwin we read: we searched news for these terms, by topic. Terms for 6 topics
Adult social care & reform
- adult social care
- social care reform
- social care funding
- Casey Commission
- care cap
- Dilnot
- charging reform
- Care Act
Also searched with “adult social care” in each of 8 national papers, and in the Guardian by editor tag, and in trade press by category. Every term for Adult social care & reform
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
Children's health
- children's health
- paediatric
- child health
- children's hospital
- infant mortality
Also searched with “children's health” in each of 8 national papers, and in the Guardian by editor tag, and in trade press by category. Every term for Children's health
Maternity & neonatal
- maternity
- maternity services
- maternity care
- neonatal
- stillbirth
- maternal mortality
- midwifery
- midwife
Also searched with “maternity” in each of 8 national papers, and in the Guardian by editor tag, and in trade press by category. Every term for Maternity & neonatal
Mental health
- mental health
- mental health services
- CAMHS
- psychiatric
- suicide prevention
- mental health crisis
- talking therapies
- IAPT
Also searched with “mental health” in each of 8 national papers, and in the Guardian by editor tag. Every term for Mental health
Learning disability & autism
- learning disability
- autism
- autistic
- SEND
- EHCP
- special educational needs
- ADHD
- Down's syndrome
Also searched with “learning disability” in each of 8 national papers, and in the Guardian by editor tag, and in trade press by category. Every term for Learning disability & autism
04 Who they quote
Who Vikki Irwin calls
Voices credited in their pieces. A reporter who has called someone before is likely to call them again.
- Jo ReederSector leader
- Lucy HumphreySector leader
- Barbara ThornSector leader
- Jo FinchAcademic
- Helen HyndmanClinician
- Becky SawyerClinician
- Kirsty RowdenSector leader
- Anna CrispeClinician
- Chris BadgerRegulator
- Abbey CummingsSector leader
05 The record
Recent articles
- 3 Nov 2026
- 21 Oct 2026
- 10 Sept 2026
- 20 Aug 2026
- 1 Jul 2026
- 28 Apr 2026
- 28 Apr 2026
- 25 Nov 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.