03 Profile
Vital Signsby Bridgehead
Hansard to 9 November 2026 · 31,243 contributions indexed · 1,439 MPs & peers
All voices01 Voice · Clinician · Assisted dying
Ben Spencer: no photograph is held, so the clinician plate is shown instead.
Clinician
Ben Spencer
member of parliament and former psychiatrist
1
0
0
Sept 2026Oct 2026Nov 2026to date
1
press citation on 1 topic since 25 Sept 2026 · last quoted 25 Sept 2026
02 Quoted on · 1 of 29 topics
Ben Spencer: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Clinician
- Role
- member of parliament and former psychiatrist
- Quoted on
- Assisted dying
- Tracked press citations
- 1
- Most recently quoted
- 25 Sept 2026
04 The signal · where Ben Spencer sits on assisted dying
Ranked 21= of 100 voices quoted in the press on assisted dying, level with 79 others on 1 citation.
Ranked on press citations on this topic only, not across all topics. Joint positions share a rank.
- 1
Dr Gordon MacdonaldSector leaderChief Executive, Care Not Killing9 - 2
Dr Alex AllinsonClinicianGP; former Member of the House of Keys (MHK) for Ramsey, Isle of Man4 - 3=
Prof Nicola RangerUnionGeneral Secretary and Chief Executive, Royal College of Nursing3 - 21=Dr Michael MulhollandAcademicHonorary Secretary at Royal College of General Practitioners1
- 21=Darlene CoxSector leaderChair, ACT Voluntary Assisted Dying Oversight Board1
- 21=Ben SpencerClinicianmember of parliament and former psychiatrist1
- 21=Anita HannigAcademicanthropologist, author of The Day I Die1
- 21=Gerald DworkinAcademicphilosopher1
Showing the leaders and the ranks around 21=, of 100 voices · See every voice on the topic →
05 On the record · press
What Ben Spencer has said
By outlet · linked articles
- compactmag.com1
Where Ben Spencer has been quoted
- 01Why I Call It ‘Assisted Suicide’compactmag.com · 25 Sept 2026
Verbatim
“the bill "frames the debate—the intervention—as shortening the death process or some form of assisted dying rather than what it is, which is physician-assisted suicide."”
Related media coverage
Recent UK press coverage of their topics, not necessarily citing them directly.
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 5 Oct 2026. See the methodology for how this page is built, or email contact@bridgeheadcommunications.com to correct anything on it.