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Hansard to 12 November 2026 · 31,484 contributions indexed · 1,439 MPs & peers
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Sector leader
Cathryn Watters
Founder of NMCWatch
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Quoted in the press, across 1 topic since 22 Dec 2025
02 Quoted on · 1 of 29 topics
Cathryn Watters: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Sector leader
- Role
- Founder of NMCWatch
- Quoted on
- Medical ethics & regulation
- Press coverage
- Quoted in the press
- Most recently quoted
- 24 Aug 2026
- First quoted
- 22 Dec 2025
04 The signal · where Cathryn Watters sits on medical ethics & regulation
Quoted
Quoted in the press on medical ethics & regulation.
Placed by press coverage on this topic only, not across all topics.
Charlie MasseyRegulatorChief Executive and Registrar, General Medical CouncilLeading- Dr Manjeet ShehmarClinicianMedical Director, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS TrustLeading
Arthur CaplanAcademicProfessor Emeritus and founding head of the Division of Medical Ethics, Department of Population Health, NYU Grossman School of Medicine (NYU Langone Health)Leading- Naomi WigleyCliniciannurse practitioner at York Hospital
- Anna FeeSector leadersenior associate at law firm RWK Goodman's health and social care team
- Cathryn WattersSector leaderFounder of NMCWatch
- Rachel Claire LemonofidesAcademicParamedic (struck off)
- Luca ArnaboldiAcademicTech expert and assistant professor at the University of Birmingham
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05 On the record · press
What Cathryn Watters has said
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- liverpoolecho.co.uk
- nursinginpractice.com
Where Cathryn Watters has been quoted
- Concerns raised as NMC fitness to practise caseload tops 7,000 | Nursing in Practicenursinginpractice.com · 24 Aug 2026
- 'I think this is as big as the Post Office scandal. This is what we are living through' - Liverpool Echoliverpoolecho.co.uk · 22 Dec 2025
How we found the articles that name Cathryn Watters: we searched news for these terms.
- medical ethics
- General Medical Council
- GMC
- fitness to practise
- patient consent
- Mental Capacity Act
- conscientious objection
- medical confidentiality
Also searched with “medical ethics” in each of 8 national papers. Every term for Medical ethics & regulation
Verbatim
“Case handlers have high turnover which means communication throughout the case is affected, adding to the delays and the poor case management.”
“People are taking two to five years to go through the process, by which time, if they've been lucky enough to continue in work, they've got past whatever went wrong and demonstrated that they are fit.”
Related media coverage
Recent UK press coverage of their topics, not necessarily citing them directly.
- Data protection regulator receives more than 300 reports of patient record snooping | Nursing in Practicenursinginpractice.com
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- 'Medical record snooping' eroding public trust as health chiefs urged to actnews.stv.tv
Chief executives, directors and spokespeople of trade bodies, representative associations and charities speaking for the sector. 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.