Anna Glasier: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Academic
- Role
- Women's Health Champion for the Scottish Government
- Quoted on
- Women's health & gynaecology, Health inequalities, Heart disease & stroke, Hospital discharge / bed-blocking
- Tracked press citations
- 6
- Most recently quoted
- 30 Sept 2026
- First quoted
- 27 Aug 2026
“I have been working with the women's health champion Professor Anna Glasier to ensure we can direct funding where its needed.”
What Anna Glasier has said
“As Women's Health Champion for Scotland, I whole-heartedly welcome the publication of CHSS's Women's Health Plan 2026-2029. The most eye-catching is the aim to develop a women-specific prevention and early detection programme as well as continuing to provide support for women diagnosed with cardiovascular or respiratory disease.”
Women's Health Champion for the Scottish Government · Health inequalities · 29 Sept 2026 · Women in Scotland facing ‘significantly poorer’ outcomes for major health conditions ↗
“The most eye-catching is the aim to develop a women-specific prevention and early detection programme as well as continuing to provide support for women diagnosed with cardiovascular or respiratory disease.”
women's health champion for the Scottish Government · Health inequalities · 29 Sept 2026 · Women ‘dying needlessly’ amid health inequalities ↗
“As Women's Health Champion for Scotland, I whole-heartedly welcome the publication of CHSS's Women's Health Plan 2026-2029. The Plan sets out clearly the burden of cardiovascular and respiratory disease among women in Scotland It goes on to highlight the stark reality of the gender inequity – which characterises so much of women's health”
Women's Health Champion for the Scottish Government · Heart disease & stroke · 29 Sept 2026 · Chest Heart & Stroke Scotland launches Women's Health Plan to tackle inequalities in long-term conditions for women ↗
“the next phase of the plan should aim to "make the health of women central to every area of healthcare so that in the future we have no need for a plan specifically focusing on women and girls"”
Scotland's first Women's Health Champion · Women's health & gynaecology · 29 Sept 2026 · Next steps to embed women’s health ↗
“The issues with the procedure being effectively irreversible are the same for both men and women and there are long waiting times for vasectomy throughout the UK.”
emeritus professor at the University of Edinburgh · Hospital discharge / bed-blocking · 27 Aug 2026 · Woman’s fight for sterilisation raises questions over access to procedure ↗
Where Anna Glasier has been quoted
- NHS gynaecology delays: 'If I didn't go private, cancer may have killed me'news.stv.tv · 30 Sept 2026
- Women in Scotland facing ‘significantly poorer’ outcomes for major health conditionsheraldscotland.com · 29 Sept 2026
- Women ‘dying needlessly’ amid health inequalitiestfn.scot · 29 Sept 2026
- Chest Heart & Stroke Scotland launches Women's Health Plan to tackle inequalities in long-term conditions for womenchss.org.uk · 29 Sept 2026
- Next steps to embed women’s healthhealthandcare.scot · 29 Sept 2026
- Woman’s fight for sterilisation raises questions over access to proceduretheguardian.com · 27 Aug 2026
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