Carli Whittaker: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Sector leader
- Role
- UK head of nursing practice at the Royal College of Nursing (RCN)
- Quoted on
- Children's health, Hospital discharge / bed-blocking
- Press citations held
- 4
- Most recently quoted
- 30 Sept 2026
- First quoted
- 8 Sept 2026
“Without enough registered nurses, patient safety is put at risk - and this is especially true for our youngest patients.”
What Carli Whittaker has said
“The report is a tragic reminder of how badly children and young people are being failed. Poor health early in life can have long-term consequences. Unless this is urgently tackled, we not only condemn generations to chronic poor health but add further unnecessary pressure on health and care services.”
RCN Head of Nursing Practice · Children's health · 30 Sept 2026 · Without decisive action we condemn generations to poor health and add further unnecessary pressure on health and care services, says Royal College of Nursing ↗
“Everyone on our panel – from Carli Whittaker, a senior nurse, to Dr Scott Hendry, a specialist in urgent paediatric care – felt that the status quo needed to change.”
senior nurse · Children's health · 30 Sept 2026 · Too old for paediatrics, too young for adult services: the problem that must be solved ↗
“This important national study shows that survival is no longer the only outcome of importance for critically ill children and their families.”
UK head of nursing practice at the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) · Hospital discharge / bed-blocking · 8 Sept 2026 · Children still suffer poorer health one-year following intensive care ↗
Where Carli Whittaker has been quoted
- Safe staffing in children and young people’s services simply can’t waitrcn.org.uk · 30 Sept 2026
- Without decisive action we condemn generations to poor health and add further unnecessary pressure on health and care services, says Royal College of Nursingrcn.org.uk · 30 Sept 2026
- Too old for paediatrics, too young for adult services: the problem that must be solvednuffieldtrust.org.uk · 30 Sept 2026
- Children still suffer poorer health one-year following intensive carenursingtimes.net · 8 Sept 2026
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