03 Profile
Vital Signsby Bridgehead
Hansard to 11 November 2026 · 31,429 contributions indexed · 1,439 MPs & peers
All voices01 Voice · Clinician · Elderly care & frailty
Deb Gompertz: no photograph is held, so the clinician plate is shown instead.
Clinician
Deb Gompertz
Dr, honorary secretary and vice president for policy, British Geriatrics Society
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press citations on 1 topic since 12 Aug 2026 · last quoted 12 Aug 2026
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Deb Gompertz: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Clinician
- Role
- Dr, honorary secretary and vice president for policy, British Geriatrics Society
- Quoted on
- Elderly care & frailty
- Tracked press citations
- 2
- Most recently quoted
- 12 Aug 2026
04 The signal · where Deb Gompertz sits on elderly care & frailty
Ranked 8= of 100 voices quoted in the press on elderly care & frailty, level with 35 others on 2 citations.
Ranked on press citations on this topic only, not across all topics. Joint positions share a rank.
- 1
Caroline AbrahamsSector leaderCharity Director, Age UK7 - 2
Professor Victoria Tzortziou BrownClinicianChair of Council, Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP)6 - 3=
Dr. Kenneth RockwoodAcademicProfessor of Medicine (Geriatric Medicine and Neurology) and Clinical Research Professor of Frailty and Aging; Senior Medical Director, Frailty and Elder Care Network, Nova Scotia Health, Dalhousie University (Division of Geriatric Medicine) and Nova Scotia Health4 - 8=Anna WhittakerAcademicProfessor, University of Stirling Centre for Research and Innovation in Sport (CRIS)2
- 8=Katherine CrawfordSector leaderChief Executive, Age Scotland2
- 8=Deb GompertzClinicianDr, honorary secretary and vice president for policy, British Geriatrics Society2
- 8=Christina HayesAcademicAssistant Professor, Ageing Research Centre, University of Limerick2
- 8=Ide O'ShaughnessyAcademicAssociate Professor, School of Allied Health, University of Limerick2
Showing the leaders and the ranks around 8=, of 100 voices · See every voice on the topic →
05 On the record · press
What Deb Gompertz has said
By outlet · linked articles
- aol.co.uk1
- mirror.co.uk1
Where Deb Gompertz has been quoted
- 01NHS must plan for heatwaves like winter crises to protect elderly, minister saysmirror.co.uk · 12 Aug 2026
- 02NHS must plan for heatwaves like winter crises to protect frail and vulnerable, Yvette Cooper says - AOLaol.co.uk · 12 Aug 2026
Verbatim
“Heat is the most dangerous climate-related threat to life in the UK, and older people are the most likely to die because of extreme heat.”
“Heat is the most dangerous climate-related threat to life in the UK, and older people are the most likely to die because of extreme heat.”
Related media coverage
Recent UK press coverage of their topics, not necessarily citing them directly.
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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 12 Nov 2026. See the methodology for how this page is built, or email contact@bridgeheadcommunications.com to correct anything on it.