Emily Barley: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Sector leader
- Role
- Founder of Maternity Safety Alliance
- Quoted on
- Hospital discharge / bed-blocking
- Tracked press citations
- 1
- Most recently quoted
- 27 Aug 2026
“Concentrating all of the power and responsibility for turning around maternity services in the hands of one person is, in my view, just insane. It's not achievable. It seems designed to me to grab headlines, but not to make the change that we need.”
Where Emily Barley has been quoted
- Bereaved mother says England maternity commissioner role would be ‘fundamentally dangerous’theguardian.com · 27 Aug 2026
Related media coverage
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