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Academic
Professor Sir Frank Atherton
former chief medical officer for Wales
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Quoted in the press, across 1 topic since 5 Nov 2025
02 Quoted on · 1 of 29 topics
Professor Sir Frank Atherton: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Academic
- Role
- former chief medical officer for Wales
- Quoted on
- Women's health & gynaecology
- Press coverage
- Quoted in the press
- Most recently quoted
- 14 May 2026
- First quoted
- 5 Nov 2025
04 The signal · where Professor Sir Frank Atherton sits on women's health & gynaecology
Regularly cited
One of the voices most often quoted in the press on women's health & gynaecology.
Placed by press coverage on this topic only, not across all topics.
Dr Sue MannClinicianNational Clinical Director for Women's Health, NHS EnglandLeading
Dr Alison WrightClinicianPresident, Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG)Leading
Prof Ranee ThakarClinicianPresident (2022–2025), Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists; Consultant Obstetrician and Urogynaecologist, Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG)Leading- Dr Ruth ThompsonClinicianGP heading the women's health hub serviceRegularly cited
- Dr Léa WengerAcademicclinical neuroscientist, founder and CEO of Cambridge start-up CyclanaRegularly cited
- Professor Sir Frank AthertonAcademicformer chief medical officer for WalesRegularly cited
- Helen O'ConnellAcademicAustralian neurologistRegularly cited
- Alan TreharneClinicianconsultant gynaecologist at Hywel Dda University Health Board and clinical director for the Ceredigion Community and Integrated Medicine GroupRegularly cited
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05 On the record · press
What Professor Sir Frank Atherton has said
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- bbc.com
- belfastlive.co.uk
- hellorayo.co.uk
Where Professor Sir Frank Atherton has been quoted
- Refusal to order cervical screening public inquiry an “insult”, say campaignersbelfastlive.co.uk · 14 May 2026
- Campaign 'far from over' as minister rules out cervical screening inquirybbc.com · 14 May 2026
- Southern Health Trust: expert review ordered into cervical screening failureshellorayo.co.uk · 5 Nov 2025
How we found the articles that name Professor Sir Frank Atherton: we searched news for these terms.
- women's health
- gynaecology
- endometriosis
- menopause
- HRT
- cervical screening
- women's health strategy
- women's health hub
Also searched with “women's health” in each of 8 national papers, and in the Guardian by editor tag. Every term for Women's health & gynaecology
Verbatim
“I believe that it is highly unlikely that a statutory inquiry would be able to make further progress on unravelling the technical aspects of the programme failure which I have summarised.”
“It is an inherent feature of screening programmes that false negative results will occur and some of these will be attributable to human error.”
Related media coverage
Recent UK press coverage of their topics, not necessarily citing them directly.
- HRT prescribing rose 12% last year but inequalities persistwww.thepharmacist.co.uk
- Seven in ten Obstetrics and Gynaecology trainees at risk of burnout, new data showsRoyal College of Midwives
- Longevitix launches women’s health extension to AI platformFemTech World
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