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Hansard to 11 November 2026 · 31,429 contributions indexed · 1,439 MPs & peers
All voices01 Voice · Sector leader · Dentistry access
Gareth Lyon: no photograph is held, so the sector leader plate is shown instead.
Sector leader
Gareth Lyon
head of health and social care at Policy Exchange
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press citations on 2 topics since 15 Dec 2025 · last quoted 13 Oct 2026
02 Quoted on · 2 of 29 topics
Gareth Lyon: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Sector leader
- Role
- head of health and social care at Policy Exchange
- Quoted on
- Dentistry access, Health inequalities
- Tracked press citations
- 9
- Most recently quoted
- 13 Oct 2026
- First quoted
- 15 Dec 2025
04 The signal · where Gareth Lyon sits on dentistry access
Ranked 10= of 100 voices quoted in the press on dentistry access, level with 2 others on 7 citations.
Ranked on press citations on this topic only, not across all topics. Joint positions share a rank.
- Health inequalities25= of 100
- 1
Eddie CrouchUnionChair of the Principal Executive Committee (BDA Chair), British Dental Association63 - 2
Shiv PabaryClinicianChair, General Dental Practice Committee, British Dental Association40 - 3
Jason WongRegulatorChief Dental Officer for England, NHS England (joint appointment with the Department of Health and Social Care, based in NHS England)21 - 8=
Charlotte EckhardtClinicianConsultant Orthodontist and lead cleft orthodontist (Swansea Bay University Health Board). Dean of the Faculty of Dental Surgery, RCS England, from June 2023. Her successor was due to take office on 19 June 2026., Royal College of Surgeons of England (Faculty of Dental Surgery)8 - 8=Christina WorleClinicianDental Strategy Clinical Lead, NHS Gloucestershire Integrated Care Board8
- 10=Gareth LyonSector leaderhead of health and social care at Policy Exchange7
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Dr Russell GidneyUnionChair, Welsh General Dental Practice Committee, British Dental Association (BDA)7 - 10=Professor Graham Galbraith CBEAcademicVice-Chancellor of the University of Portsmouth7
Showing the leaders and the ranks around 10=, of 100 voices · See every voice on the topic →
05 On the record · press
What Gareth Lyon has said
By outlet · linked articles
- bbc.com1
- cambridgeindependent.co.uk1
- careappointments.com1
- eveningnews24.co.uk1
- independent.co.uk1
Where Gareth Lyon has been quoted
- 01Fifth of England ‘risks rural penalty’ under plans to shift care into community – Care Appointmentscareappointments.com · 13 Oct 2026
- 02We are living fewer years in good health: Is the NHS part of the problem?bbc.com · 12 Jul 2026
- 03'Toothless' appeal for mobile dentists as NHS crisis bitescambridgeindependent.co.uk · 8 Mar 2026
- 04New reforms mean dentists in England will be paid more to see patients in need of urgent treatment.news.sky.com · 16 Dec 2025
- 05Dentists to be paid more to see urgent patients under new reforms for sectoreveningnews24.co.uk · 16 Dec 2025
- 06More money for dentists and £150 NHS dental vouchers proposed in new report - My Londonmylondon.news · 15 Dec 2025
- 07Dentists to be paid more to see urgent patients under new reforms for sector | LBClbc.co.uk · 15 Dec 2025
- 08Dentist patients set to save £225 on the NHS due to major reforms - Manchester Evening Newsmanchestereveningnews.co.uk · 15 Dec 2025
- 09Major new dentistry plan vows to 'end the postcode lottery' for careindependent.co.uk · 15 Dec 2025
Verbatim
“The Government has the right ambition to want to move more care out of hospitals and into communities but that shift needs to recognise the different needs and cost of serving dispersed, older and seasonally fluctuating populations.”
“The UK is becoming an outlier... we're not prepared to look at how we make our system sustainable for patients in the long run”
“NHS dentistry is in a truly shocking state”
“NHS dentistry "is in a truly shocking state". "A majority of people are not receiving NHS dental support at all - including millions of children."”
“NHS dentistry is in a truly shocking state”
“NHS dentistry is in a truly shocking state. A majority of people are not receiving NHS dental support at all - including millions of children.”
“is in a truly shocking state”
“A majority of people are not receiving NHS dental support at all - including millions of children.”
“It is time to take radical action to save NHS dentistry and to fix our national smile.”
Related media coverage
Recent UK press coverage of their topics, not necessarily citing them directly.
- New figures show Peterborough has one of lowest uses of NHS dentists in the UKpeterboroughtoday.co.uk
- Trial of dentists in Peterborough GP surgery is a 'game changer'bbc.com
- Bradford support network celebrates award after helping 15,000 peoplethetelegraphandargus.co.uk
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