03 Profile
Vital Signsby Bridgehead
Hansard to 9 November 2026 · 31,243 contributions indexed · 1,439 MPs & peers
All voices01 Voice · Sector leader · Assisted dying
Darlene Cox: no photograph is held, so the sector leader plate is shown instead.
Sector leader
Darlene Cox
Chair, ACT Voluntary Assisted Dying Oversight Board
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Nov 2026to date
1
press citation on 1 topic since 3 Nov 2026 · last quoted 3 Nov 2026
02 Quoted on · 1 of 29 topics
Darlene Cox: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Sector leader
- Role
- Chair, ACT Voluntary Assisted Dying Oversight Board
- Quoted on
- Assisted dying
- Tracked press citations
- 1
- Most recently quoted
- 3 Nov 2026
04 The signal · where Darlene Cox 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=Professor Sam AhmedzaiAcademicEmeritus Professor of Supportive and Palliative Medicine at The University of Sheffield1
- 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
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05 On the record · press
What Darlene Cox has said
By outlet · linked articles
- abc.net.au1
Where Darlene Cox has been quoted
- 01Meet the first applicant to the ACT's voluntary assisted dying schemeabc.net.au · 3 Nov 2026
Verbatim
“We haven't identified any systemic safety concerns, and we think the legislative safeguards have been operating as intended”
Related media coverage
Recent UK press coverage of their topics, not necessarily citing them directly.
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 10 Nov 2026. See the methodology for how this page is built, or email contact@bridgeheadcommunications.com to correct anything on it.