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Hansard to 10 November 2026 · 31,281 contributions indexed · 1,439 MPs & peers
All voices01 Voice · Sector leader · Mental health
Amber O'Brien: no photograph is held, so the sector leader plate is shown instead.
Sector leader
Amber O'Brien
RCN Professional Lead for Mental Health
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press citations on 1 topic since 2 Jun 2026 · last quoted 23 Jul 2026
02 Quoted on · 1 of 29 topics
Amber O'Brien: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Sector leader
- Role
- RCN Professional Lead for Mental Health
- Quoted on
- Mental health
- Tracked press citations
- 2
- Most recently quoted
- 23 Jul 2026
- First quoted
- 2 Jun 2026
04 The signal · where Amber O'Brien sits on mental health
Ranked 29= of 100 voices quoted in the press on mental health, level with 60 others on 2 citations.
Ranked on press citations on this topic only, not across all topics. Joint positions share a rank.
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Professor Peter FonagyAcademicProfessor of Contemporary Psychoanalysis and Developmental Science; Head of the Division of Psychology and Language Sciences, University College London (UCL)17 - 2
Dr Sarah HughesSector leaderChief Executive, Mind (The National Association for Mental Health)9 - 3=Dr Sam JonesClinicianOfficer for Mental Health, Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH)7
- 29=Dr Max PembertonClinicianConsultant Psychiatrist, NHS (based in London)2
- 29=Dr Pramudie GunaratneSector leaderChief Executive Officer, Australian Society of Psychiatrists (ASoP)2
- 29=Amber O'BrienSector leaderRCN Professional Lead for Mental Health2
- 29=Mark HorowitzClinicianAssociate professor in psychiatry at Adelaide University and visiting lecturer in psychopharmacology at King's College London, lead author of The Maudsley Deprescribing Guidelines2
- 29=Sanjoy KumarClinicianmedical doctor2
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05 On the record · press
What Amber O'Brien has said
By outlet · linked articles
- careappointments.com1
- rcn.org.uk1
Where Amber O'Brien has been quoted
- 01Bridging the gap between physical and mental healthrcn.org.uk · 23 Jul 2026
- 02‘Dangerous’ staffing levels at NHS mental health service which treated killer, inquiry hears – Care Appointmentscareappointments.com · 2 Jun 2026
Verbatim
“The fantastic work Dulcie is leading showcases the importance of a nurse-led approach in improving the physical health of this demographic. Mental health nurses spend the most time with patients and the trust they build means they can make physical health care and health promotion part of routine practice.”
“It's no secret, actually, amongst nurses that the current system is unsafe.”
Related media coverage
Recent UK press coverage of their topics, not necessarily citing them directly.
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Chief executives, directors and spokespeople of trade bodies, representative associations and charities speaking for the sector. 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 11 Nov 2026. See the methodology for how this page is built, or email contact@bridgeheadcommunications.com to correct anything on it.