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Hansard to 12 November 2026 · 31,484 contributions indexed · 1,439 MPs & peers
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Ben Cowdry: no photograph is held, so the clinician plate is shown instead.
Clinician
Ben Cowdry
GP registrar, Birmingham
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Quoted in the press, across 1 topic since 14 Nov 2025
02 Quoted on · 1 of 29 topics
Ben Cowdry: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Clinician
- Role
- GP registrar, Birmingham
- Quoted on
- NHS & care workforce/staffing
- Press coverage
- Quoted in the press
- Most recently quoted
- 14 Nov 2025
04 On the record · press
What Ben Cowdry has said
By outlet · bar length shows relative volume
- bbc.com
Where Ben Cowdry has been quoted
- Doctor strikes over temporary contract frustration in West Midlandsbbc.com · 14 Nov 2025
How we found the articles that name Ben Cowdry: we searched news for these terms.
- NHS workforce
- staff shortages
- nursing shortage
- nurse recruitment
- care workforce
- care worker pay
- social care workforce
- NHS long term workforce plan
Also searched with “NHS workforce” in each of 8 national papers, and in the Guardian by editor tag, and in trade press by category. Every term for NHS & care workforce/staffing
Verbatim
“...waiting months if not over a year to see a specialist in a hospital setting and the way to resolve this was to train more of our own doctors and ensure that people get into those training places so that we have consultants in the future who can bring down those waiting lists.”
Related media coverage
Recent UK press coverage of their topics, not necessarily citing them directly.
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