03 Profile
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Hansard to 11 November 2026 · 31,429 contributions indexed · 1,439 MPs & peers
All voices01 Voice · Clinician · Mental health
Gareth Thomas: no photograph is held, so the clinician plate is shown instead.
Clinician
Gareth Thomas
Dr; deputy chief executive and chief medical officer, Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust
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press citations on 1 topic since 6 May 2026 · last quoted 11 Sept 2026
02 Quoted on · 1 of 29 topics
Gareth Thomas: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Clinician
- Role
- Dr; deputy chief executive and chief medical officer, Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust
- Quoted on
- Mental health
- Tracked press citations
- 3
- Most recently quoted
- 11 Sept 2026
- First quoted
- 6 May 2026
04 The signal · where Gareth Thomas sits on mental health
Ranked 35= of 100 voices quoted in the press on mental health, level with 35 others on 3 citations.
Ranked on press citations on this topic only, not across all topics. Joint positions share a rank.
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Professor Peter FonagyAcademicProfessor of Contemporary Psychoanalysis and Developmental Science; Head of the Division of Psychology and Language Sciences, University College London (UCL)40 - 2
Dr Sarah HughesSector leaderChief Executive, Mind (The National Association for Mental Health)13 - 3Dr Sam JonesClinicianOfficer for Mental Health, Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH)12
- 35=Dr David BridleAcademicChief Medical Officer at ELFT3
- 35=Catherine FlowersSector leaderSuicide prevention lead, Cygnet Health Care3
- 35=Gareth ThomasClinicianDr; deputy chief executive and chief medical officer, Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust3
- 35=Susan AyersAcademicProfessor of maternal and child health, City St George's3
- 35=Dr Megan ForemanClinicianGP and lead author of the paper3
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05 On the record · press
What Gareth Thomas has said
By outlet · linked articles
- lep.co.uk2
- lancashiretelegraph.co.uk1
Where Gareth Thomas has been quoted
- 01'Listening benches' installed in Preston to promote mental health supportlep.co.uk · 11 Sept 2026
- 02New boss for Lancashire's Mental Health Trust - this is what he has to saylep.co.uk · 7 Sept 2026
- 03Lancashire mental health trust earns teaching trust statuslancashiretelegraph.co.uk · 6 May 2026
Verbatim
“Suicide prevention is central to our ambition to improve population health and we are proud to be working with our partner agencies on this important project.”
“Having spent all of my career working directly with patients, families and colleagues across our services, I know first-hand the difference that compassionate, evidence-based, high-quality care can make to people's lives.”
“We are delighted to work together with Lancaster University to gain teaching trust status and even more exciting is that we are now well on our way to becoming a university trust.”
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Doctors, nurses, allied health professionals and other registered clinicians quoted in a clinical capacity. 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 13 Nov 2026. See the methodology for how this page is built, or email contact@bridgeheadcommunications.com to correct anything on it.