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Hansard to 12 November 2026 · 31,484 contributions indexed · 1,439 MPs & peers
All voices01 Voice · Clinician · NHS & care workforce/staffing
Freya Pearson
Dr, interim chief medical officer, University Hospital Southampton
Quoted in the press, across 1 topic since 22 Oct 2026
02 Quoted on · 1 of 29 topics
Freya Pearson: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Clinician
- Role
- Dr, interim chief medical officer, University Hospital Southampton
- Quoted on
- NHS & care workforce/staffing
- Press coverage
- Quoted in the press
- Most recently quoted
- 22 Oct 2026
04 On the record · press
What Freya Pearson has said
- dailyecho.co.uk
Where Freya Pearson has been quoted
- Hospital bosses defend recruiting overseas doctors after UK priority questiondailyecho.co.uk · 22 Oct 2026
How we found the articles that name Freya Pearson: we searched news for these terms.
- NHS workforce
- staff shortages
- nursing shortage
- nurse recruitment
- care workforce
- care worker pay
- social care workforce
- NHS long term workforce plan
Also searched with “NHS workforce” in each of 8 national papers, and in the Guardian by editor tag, and in trade press by category. Every term for NHS & care workforce/staffing
Verbatim
“I think one of the challenges that I've seen in my professional career is that because we have such a broad diversity of specialities and subspecialities at Southampton, it's often challenging to find people with the particular skills that we need, so we will look wherever is required to maintain those services.”
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