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Sector leader
Adam Turner
Head of imaging, Somerset NHS Foundation Trust
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Quoted in the press, across 1 topic since 14 Apr 2026
02 Quoted on · 1 of 29 topics
Adam Turner: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Sector leader
- Role
- Head of imaging, Somerset NHS Foundation Trust
- Quoted on
- NHS waiting lists
- Press coverage
- Quoted in the press
- Most recently quoted
- 19 Aug 2026
- First quoted
- 14 Apr 2026
04 The signal · where Adam Turner sits on nhs waiting lists
Quoted
Quoted in the press on nhs waiting lists.
Placed by press coverage on this topic only, not across all topics.
Tim GardnerThink tankDeputy Director of Policy, The Health FoundationLeading
Prof Meghana PanditRegulatorDeputy Chief Executive Officer (NHS England) / Chief Executive Officer (Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust)Leading
Sarah WoolnoughThink tankChief Executive, The King's FundLeading- Nesta Lloyd-JonesSector leaderAssistant director, Welsh NHS Confederation
- Ken HarriesClinicianNHS Wales consultant surgeon
- Adam TurnerSector leaderHead of imaging, Somerset NHS Foundation Trust
- Dave MooreClinicianHead of the Spinal Surgery Management Unit; Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Children's Health Ireland (CHI)
- Naing Latt TintClinicianEye surgeon specialising in cornea, cataract and refractive surgery
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05 On the record · press
What Adam Turner has said
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- bbc.co.uk
- somersetlive.co.uk
Where Adam Turner has been quoted
- Bridgwater's new £18m diagnostic centre to cut scan waiting timesbbc.co.uk · 19 Aug 2026
- Fight to save scanners at Somerset hospital which NHS has taken awaysomersetlive.co.uk · 14 Apr 2026
How we found the articles that name Adam Turner: we searched news for these terms.
- 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
Verbatim
“aimed at trying to tackle the backlog and the waiting list for scans”
“Through the national community diagnostic centre programme, we have significantly expanded CT and MRI capacity in Somerset, including opening centres in Taunton and Yeovil, with further capacity to opening in Bridgwater this summer.”
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