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Hansard to 9 November 2026 · 31,243 contributions indexed · 1,439 MPs & peers
All voices01 Voice · Sector leader · Hospital discharge / bed-blocking
Gareth Jones: no photograph is held, so the sector leader plate is shown instead.
Sector leader
Gareth Jones
director of external affairs at the National Pharmacy Association
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press citation on 1 topic since 21 May 2026 · last quoted 21 May 2026
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Gareth Jones: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Sector leader
- Role
- director of external affairs at the National Pharmacy Association
- Quoted on
- Hospital discharge / bed-blocking
- Tracked press citations
- 1
- Most recently quoted
- 21 May 2026
04 The signal · where Gareth Jones sits on hospital discharge / bed-blocking
Ranked 14= of 100 voices quoted in the press on hospital discharge / bed-blocking, level with 86 others on 1 citation.
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)3 - 1=
Caroline AbrahamsSector leaderCharity Director, Age UK3 - 1=
Rory DeightonSector leaderDirector of Acute, Emergency and Community Care (Acute Network), NHS Confederation3 - 14=Pete GaveySector leaderAmbulance chief1
- 14=Tabetha DarmonCliniciannursing director1
- 14=Gareth JonesSector leaderdirector of external affairs at the National Pharmacy Association1
- 14=Lisa RuddleAcademicprincipal pharmacy technician for ward services at the Royal Chesterfield Hospital in Derbyshire1
- 14=Dr Katie BakerClinicianUK director, Tandem Health, and former NHS GP1
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05 On the record · press
What Gareth Jones has said
By outlet · linked articles
- pharmaceutical-journal.com1
Where Gareth Jones has been quoted
- 01Discharge medicines service: scaling success nationwidepharmaceutical-journal.com · 21 May 2026
Verbatim
“The current CPCF does not leave adequate funding for the scheme to be scaled up and this must change if DMS i”
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Chief executives, directors and spokespeople of trade bodies, representative associations and charities speaking for the sector. 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 5 Oct 2026. See the methodology for how this page is built, or email contact@bridgeheadcommunications.com to correct anything on it.