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Hansard to 11 November 2026 · 31,429 contributions indexed · 1,439 MPs & peers
All voices01 Voice · Clinician · Heart disease & stroke
Asif Hasan: no photograph is held, so the clinician plate is shown instead.
Clinician
Asif Hasan
Cardiac surgeon, former head of paediatric cardiac surgery at the Freeman Hospital
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Oct 2026Nov 2026to date
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press citations on 2 topics since 20 Oct 2026 · last quoted 22 Oct 2026
02 Quoted on · 2 of 29 topics
Asif Hasan: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Clinician
- Role
- Cardiac surgeon, former head of paediatric cardiac surgery at the Freeman Hospital
- Quoted on
- Heart disease & stroke, Mental health
- Tracked press citations
- 8
- Most recently quoted
- 22 Oct 2026
- First quoted
- 20 Oct 2026
04 The signal · where Asif Hasan sits on heart disease & stroke
Ranked 26= of 100 voices quoted in the press on heart disease & stroke, level with 16 others on 6 citations.
Ranked on press citations on this topic only, not across all topics. Joint positions share a rank.
- Mental health69= of 100
- 1
Professor Bryan WilliamsSector leaderChief Scientific and Medical Officer, British Heart Foundation (BHF)51 - 2Dr Francesco Lo MonacoAcademicCardiologist, founder of the National Longevity Clinic32
- 3
Dr Sonya Babu-NarayanClinicianClinical Director, British Heart Foundation20 - 21=Dr. Sophie PaddockAcademiccardiology specialist registrar at the NNUH and researcher at UEA's Norwich Medical School7
- 26=
Professor Azeem MajeedAcademicProfessor of Primary Care and Public Health and Head of the Department of Primary Care and Public Health, Imperial College London6 - 26=Asif HasanClinicianCardiac surgeon, former head of paediatric cardiac surgery at the Freeman Hospital6
- 26=Dr Charmaine GriffithsSector leaderchief executive of the BHF6
- 26=Professor Michelle WilliamsAcademicJoan and Julius Jacobson Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health6
Showing the leaders and the ranks around 26=, of 100 voices · See every voice on the topic →
05 On the record · press
What Asif Hasan has said
By outlet · linked articles
- aol.co.uk2
- mirror.co.uk2
- asianimage.co.uk1
- chroniclelive.co.uk1
- thenorthernecho.co.uk1
Where Asif Hasan has been quoted
- 01York teen's night with the stars at extraordinary reunion with surgeon who saved himyorkpress.co.uk · 22 Oct 2026
- 02Pioneering Freeman Hospital surgeon richly deserves Pride of Britain awardchroniclelive.co.uk · 21 Oct 2026
- 03Surgeon behind over 400 children's heart transplants wins Lifetime Achievement awardasianimage.co.uk · 21 Oct 2026
- 04Heartwarming moment 'inspiring' North East surgeon of 30 years gets Pride of Britainthenorthernecho.co.uk · 21 Oct 2026
- 05Andy Burnham praises Daily Mirror awards, says 'best bit of Britain is the people' - AOLaol.co.uk · 20 Oct 2026
- 06World-leading surgeon reunited with 19 young lives he saved at Pride of Britainmirror.co.uk · 20 Oct 2026
- 07Emotional moment world-leading surgeon is reunited with 19 young lives he saved at Pride of Britain - AOLaol.co.uk · 20 Oct 2026
- 08Andy Burnham praises Mirror awards, says 'best bit of Britain is the people'mirror.co.uk · 20 Oct 2026
Verbatim
“I've seen human misery up close, but also human resilience and courage. I'm quite an ordinary person, but I had so many extraordinary colleagues with me who gave their lives to the patients.”
“Your son will live to be a happy old man”
“I wanted to train people so that they are not only competent, but better than me, and that's what I have achieved. That is my proudest achievement.”
“I've seen human misery up close, but also human resilience and courage.”
“As a 12 year old boy, growing up in Pakistan, I never imagined for one moment that I'd be meeting the Prime Minister. It's a real privilege to be here.”
“For me the word courage is defined in the book. It is personified in Keira and her family. That touched me and stayed with me.”
“There have been big highs and big lows. My heart swells when I hear about a survivor doing so well, but I do remember all the traumatic cases where someone died. I've seen human misery up close, but also human resilience and courage.”
“As a 12 year old boy, growing up in Pakistan, I never imagined for one moment that I'd be meeting the Prime Minister. It's a real privilege to be here.”
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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.