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Hansard to 11 November 2026 · 31,429 contributions indexed · 1,439 MPs & peers
All voices01 Voice · Clinician · Hospital discharge / bed-blocking
Andy Curran: no photograph is held, so the clinician plate is shown instead.
Clinician
Andy Curran
Co-medical director, Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board
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press citations on 1 topic since 24 Sept 2026 · last quoted 25 Sept 2026
02 Quoted on · 1 of 29 topics
Andy Curran: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Clinician
- Role
- Co-medical director, Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board
- Quoted on
- Hospital discharge / bed-blocking
- Tracked press citations
- 2
- Most recently quoted
- 25 Sept 2026
- First quoted
- 24 Sept 2026
04 The signal · where Andy Curran sits on hospital discharge / bed-blocking
Ranked 15= of 100 voices quoted in the press on hospital discharge / bed-blocking, level with 14 others on 2 citations.
Ranked on press citations on this topic only, not across all topics. Joint positions share a rank.
- 1=
Dr Ian HigginsonClinicianPresident, Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM)6 - 1=
Caroline AbrahamsSector leaderCharity Director, Age UK6 - 3=Colin PoolmanSector leaderexecutive director of Royal College of Nursing (RCN) Scotland5
- 15=Andy WeirSector leaderHealth's managing director2
- 15=Alex StephenSector leaderNHS Grampian executive director on call2
- 15=Andy CurranClinicianCo-medical director, Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board2
- 15=Dr Henri GillerSector leaderChairman of Oldham Safeguarding Adults Board2
- 15=Anthony ClarkeClinicianDr, chair of the Bridlington Health Forum2
Showing the leaders and the ranks around 15=, of 100 voices · See every voice on the topic →
05 On the record · press
What Andy Curran has said
By outlet · linked articles
- lancs.live1
- lep.co.uk1
Where Andy Curran has been quoted
- 01Two Lancaster wards to close in favour of more care in the communitylancs.live · 25 Sept 2026
- 02Hospital to shut two whole wards for good - but only once it's 'safe' to do solep.co.uk · 24 Sept 2026
Verbatim
“What we are not doing is closing beds and kicking patients out - that would be entirely inappropriate. It's putting in place an alternative to inpatient care to enable those beds to close - not the other way round”
“What we are not doing is closing beds and kicking patients out - that would be entirely inappropriate. It's putting in place an alternative to inpatient care to enable those beds to close - not the other way round”
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