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Hansard to 11 November 2026 · 31,429 contributions indexed · 1,439 MPs & peers
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Alistair Baxter: no photograph is held, so the clinician plate is shown instead.
Clinician
Alistair Baxter
consultant anaesthetist and clinical director of surgery, anaesthesia, and theatres, Royal Hospital for Children and Young People in Edinburgh
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press citations on 1 topic since 2 Oct 2026 · last quoted 2 Oct 2026
02 Quoted on · 1 of 29 topics
Alistair Baxter: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Clinician
- Role
- consultant anaesthetist and clinical director of surgery, anaesthesia, and theatres, Royal Hospital for Children and Young People in Edinburgh
- Quoted on
- Children's health
- Tracked press citations
- 2
- Most recently quoted
- 2 Oct 2026
04 The signal · where Alistair Baxter sits on children's health
Ranked 35= of 100 voices quoted in the press on children's health, level with 47 others on 2 citations.
Ranked on press citations on this topic only, not across all topics. Joint positions share a rank.
- 1
Dr Helen StewartClinicianOfficer for Health Improvement (and Consultant in Paediatric Emergency Medicine, Sheffield Children's Hospital), Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH)17 - 2=
Lynn WoolseyUnionChief Nursing Officer, Royal College of Nursing9 - 2=Dr Mike McKeanClinicianVice-president for policy of the RCPCH9
- 35=Stephanie DymondAcademicSpecialist Biomedical Scientist, QEUH Labs2
- 35=Adele KingClinicianpaediatric anaesthetist, Royal Hospital for Children in Glasgow2
- 35=Alistair BaxterClinicianconsultant anaesthetist and clinical director of surgery, anaesthesia, and theatres, Royal Hospital for Children and Young People in Edinburgh2
- 35=Esther van SluijsAcademicprofessor of behavioural epidemiology at Loughborough University2
- 35=Babak OrandiAcademicLead researcher, New York University study on GLP-1 prescribing to children2
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05 On the record · press
What Alistair Baxter has said
By outlet · linked articles
- dailyrecord.co.uk1
- news.stv.tv1
Where Alistair Baxter has been quoted
- 01Family history should have 'set off alarm bells', inquiry into baby's death toldnews.stv.tv · 2 Oct 2026
- 02Baby's family history should have 'set of bells' prior to his death in hospitaldailyrecord.co.uk · 2 Oct 2026
Verbatim
“I think it's a tragic event which has happened, but I don't see - unless there had been real communication from either the Glasgow team or the parents or the GP, how Dr Davies and Dr Barnett were in any way able to know what was going to happen”
“I think it's a tragic event which has happened, but I don't see - unless there had been real communication from either the Glasgow team or the parents or the GP, how Dr Davies and Dr Barnett were in any way able to know what was going to happen.”
Related media coverage
Recent UK press coverage of their topics, not necessarily citing them directly.
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- Suffolk children's health cuts a dark day, say politiciansbbc.com
- Appeal raises £1,765 for SWAH children's wardfermanaghherald.com
Doctors, nurses, allied health professionals and other registered clinicians quoted in a clinical capacity. Citations are counted by an automated scan of UK press coverage and may be incomplete. Roles, biographies and contact details are researched and human-reviewed before they appear here; anything not yet reviewed is simply absent rather than shown unverified. This profile was last updated on 13 Nov 2026. See the methodology for how this page is built, or email contact@bridgeheadcommunications.com to correct anything on it.