03 Profile
Vital Signsby Bridgehead
Hansard to 11 November 2026 · 31,429 contributions indexed · 1,439 MPs & peers
All voices01 Voice · Clinician · A&E & ambulance response
Denise Townsend: no photograph is held, so the clinician plate is shown instead.
Clinician
Denise Townsend
acting chief nursing officer for the trust
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press citations on 2 topics since 18 May 2026 · last quoted 15 Aug 2026
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Denise Townsend: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Clinician
- Role
- acting chief nursing officer for the trust
- Quoted on
- A&E & ambulance response, Maternity & neonatal
- Tracked press citations
- 4
- Most recently quoted
- 15 Aug 2026
- First quoted
- 18 May 2026
04 The signal · where Denise Townsend sits on a&e & ambulance response
Ranked 51= of 100 voices quoted in the press on a&e & ambulance response, level with 18 others on 3 citations.
Ranked on press citations on this topic only, not across all topics. Joint positions share a rank.
- 1
Dr Ian HigginsonClinicianPresident, Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM)82 - 2
Prof Nicola RangerUnionGeneral Secretary and Chief Executive, Royal College of Nursing74 - 3Dr Fiona HunterClinicianScotland Vice President, Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM)17
- 51=Dr Andrew MeyersonAcademicA&E medic in London3
- 51=Tom RobertsClinicianA&E consultant3
- 51=Denise TownsendClinicianacting chief nursing officer for the trust3
- 51=Matthew TrainerSector leaderChief executive of Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust3
- 51=Bill JewsburyClinicianMedical Director, Royal Surrey3
Showing the leaders and the ranks around 51=, of 100 voices · See every voice on the topic →
05 On the record · press
What Denise Townsend has said
By outlet · linked articles
- echo-news.co.uk2
- bbc.co.uk1
- bbc.com1
Where Denise Townsend has been quoted
- 01Basildon Hospital 'needs support' after corridor care cases | Echoecho-news.co.uk · 15 Aug 2026
- 02'Deeply upsetting' corridor care persists at Basildon hospital - BBC Newsbbc.co.uk · 5 Aug 2026
- 03857 corridor care instances at Basildon Hospital in June | Echoecho-news.co.uk · 4 Aug 2026
- 04More than 100 maternity staff sue NHS over gas exposurebbc.com · 18 May 2026
Verbatim
“No one wants patients to receive care in corridors and reducing this remains a top priority. We know there is more work to do.”
“We have significantly reduced the number of patients who are receiving care in corridors and escalation spaces across our emergency departments since the beginning of the year.”
“No one wants patients to receive care in corridors, and we are absolutely committed to getting patients into the right beds at the right time so they receive the highest quality care.”
“Since the incident we have learnt lessons and part of this is that we have improved our oversight of the monitoring of medical gases across the maternity unit at Basildon Hospital.”
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