03 Profile
Hansard to 9 November 2026 · 31,243 contributions indexed · 1,439 MPs & peers
All voices01 Voice · Sector leader · GP access
Gareth Wright
director of system improvement, co-ordination and emergency preparedness at the Integrated Care Board (ICB) covering Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire and Shropshire
press citation on 1 topic since 9 Oct 2026 · last quoted 9 Oct 2026
02 Quoted on · 1 of 29 topics
Gareth Wright: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Sector leader
- Role
- director of system improvement, co-ordination and emergency preparedness at the Integrated Care Board (ICB) covering Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire and Shropshire
- Quoted on
- GP access
- Tracked press citations
- 1
- Most recently quoted
- 9 Oct 2026
04 The signal · where Gareth Wright sits on gp access
Ranked 35= of 100 voices quoted in the press on gp access, level with 65 others on 1 citation.
Ranked on press citations on this topic only, not across all topics. Joint positions share a rank.
- 1
Professor Victoria Tzortziou BrownClinicianChair of Council, Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP)21 - 2
Dr Katie BramallUnionImmediate past chair, BMA GP Committee for England; Chair, BMA GP Committee UK, British Medical Association12 - 3
Dr Amanda DoyleRegulatorNational Director for Primary Care and Community Services, NHS England11 - 35=Jason SutherlandAcademicProfessor in Health Services and Policy, University of British Columbia; director of the Centre for Health Services and Policy Research1
- 35=Sabrina WongAcademicProfessor at the University of British Columbia; Chief Scientific Officer, Canadian Primary Care Research consortium1
- 35=Gareth WrightSector leaderdirector of system improvement, co-ordination and emergency preparedness at the Integrated Care Board (ICB) covering Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire and Shropshire1
- 35=Mike GoodwinSector leaderdeputy chief operating officer at University Hospitals of North Midlands (UHNM) NHS Trust1
- 35=Professor Ewan MauleAcademicDirector of medicines at NHS North East and North Cumbria Integrated Care Board1
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05 On the record · press
What Gareth Wright has said
- stoke.nub.news1
Where Gareth Wright has been quoted
- 01Thousands more GP appointments available over Christmas and Easter in Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trentstoke.nub.news · 9 Oct 2026
Verbatim
“We're not trying to tell people don't come to hospital if you need it. But what we are saying is there could be something better for you, getting seen more appropriately in a better setting.”
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