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Hansard to 13 November 2026 · 31,544 contributions indexed · 1,439 MPs & peers
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Claire Lamza: no photograph is held, so the clinician plate is shown instead.
Clinician
Claire Lamza
executive director of nursing at Mental Welfare Commission
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Quoted in the press, across 2 topics since 16 Oct 2025
02 Quoted on · 2 of 29 topics
Claire Lamza: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Clinician
- Role
- executive director of nursing at Mental Welfare Commission
- Quoted on
- Mental health, Unpaid carers
- Press coverage
- Quoted in the press
- Most recently quoted
- 28 Oct 2026
- First quoted
- 16 Oct 2025
04 The signal · where Claire Lamza sits on mental health
Regularly cited
One of the voices most often quoted in the press on mental health.
Placed by press coverage on this topic only, not across all topics.
- Unpaid carersQuoted
Professor Peter FonagyAcademicProfessor of Contemporary Psychoanalysis and Developmental Science; Head of the Division of Psychology and Language Sciences, University College London (UCL)Leading
Dr Sarah HughesSector leaderChief Executive, Mind (The National Association for Mental Health)Leading- Dr Sam JonesClinicianOfficer for Mental Health, Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH)Leading
- Dr Fiona HeadClinicianmedical director at NHS Central East Integrated Care Board (ICB)Regularly cited
- Dr Divyangana RakeshClinicianInstitute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College LondonRegularly cited
- Claire LamzaClinicianexecutive director of nursing at Mental Welfare CommissionRegularly cited
- Tom QuinnSector leaderdirector of external affairs at eating disorders charity BeatRegularly cited
- Neil MathersSector leaderExecutive director for Scotland, Samaritans ScotlandRegularly cited
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05 On the record · press
What Claire Lamza has said
By outlet · bar length shows relative volume
- bbc.co.uk
- bbc.com
- belfasttelegraph.co.uk
- healthandcare.scot
Where Claire Lamza has been quoted
- 'No progress' on issue of daytime confinement at State Hospital, report findsbelfasttelegraph.co.uk · 28 Oct 2026
- Teen psychiatric patients felt 'belittled and bullied' - reportbbc.com · 19 Feb 2026
- Children's psychiatric ward report raises restraint concernsbbc.co.uk · 23 Oct 2025
- Reform falls short of rhetoric for Scotland’s carershealthandcare.scot · 16 Oct 2025
How we found the articles that name Claire Lamza: we searched news for these terms, by topic. Terms for 2 topics
Mental health
- mental health
- mental health services
- CAMHS
- psychiatric
- suicide prevention
- mental health crisis
- talking therapies
- IAPT
Also searched with “mental health” in each of 8 national papers, and in the Guardian by editor tag. Every term for Mental health
Unpaid carers
- unpaid carers
- carer's allowance
- carers allowance
- carer's leave
- carer's credit
- Carers UK
- Carers Trust
- young carers
Also searched with “unpaid carers” in each of 8 national papers, and in the Guardian by editor tag, and in trade press by category. Every term for Unpaid carers
Verbatim
“The routine use of daytime confinement because of staffing or operational pressures must be reduced and eliminated.”
“The lack of staffing meant that there weren't enough to be able to support young people when they were in distress. The staff that were coming in didn't necessarily have the training and the skills and the competencies to be able to meet the needs of these young people.”
“We observed that it wasn't conducted the way we would expect it to be. It wasn't well documented, it wasn't clear what was happening and, in one particular incident, we didn't think it was a proportionate restraint.”
“Unpaid carers contribute so much, but far too often at a cost to themselves. Our report shows a clear and persistent gap between the aim of including carers and what actually happens day-to-day.”
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