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Hansard to 11 November 2026 · 31,429 contributions indexed · 1,439 MPs & peers
All voices01 Voice · Clinician · Heart disease & stroke
Dr Iain Turnbull: no photograph is held, so the clinician plate is shown instead.
Clinician
Dr Iain Turnbull
GP, deputy chief medical officer at Our Future Health and clinical research fellow at Oxford Population Health
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press citations on 1 topic since 23 Sept 2026 · last quoted 5 Oct 2026
02 Quoted on · 1 of 29 topics
Dr Iain Turnbull: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Clinician
- Role
- GP, deputy chief medical officer at Our Future Health and clinical research fellow at Oxford Population Health
- Quoted on
- Heart disease & stroke
- Tracked press citations
- 5
- Most recently quoted
- 5 Oct 2026
- First quoted
- 23 Sept 2026
04 The signal · where Dr Iain Turnbull sits on heart disease & stroke
Ranked 6= of 100 voices quoted in the press on heart disease & stroke, level with 4 others on 5 citations.
Ranked on press citations on this topic only, not across all topics. Joint positions share a rank.
- 1
Professor Bryan WilliamsSector leaderChief Scientific and Medical Officer, British Heart Foundation (BHF)14 - 2
Dr Sonya Babu-NarayanClinicianClinical Director, British Heart Foundation11 - 3=Dr Naveed AsifClinicianGP from London General Practice7
- 6=
Dr Maxime TaquetAcademicAssociate Professor (and Specialty Registrar in Psychiatry, Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust), Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford5 - 6=Dr Rani KhatibAcademicNHS England's national specialty adviser for cardiovascular disease prevention5
- 6=Dr Iain TurnbullClinicianGP, deputy chief medical officer at Our Future Health and clinical research fellow at Oxford Population Health5
- 6=Wenyu LiuAcademicmedical statistician at Oxford Population Health5
- 11Riyaz PatelAcademicProfessor of cardiology at University College London and clinical lead for preventive cardiology at Barts Heart Centre4
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05 On the record · press
What Dr Iain Turnbull has said
By outlet · linked articles
- express.co.uk1
- nrtimes.co.uk1
- oxfordmail.co.uk1
- pulsetoday.co.uk1
- shropshirestar.com1
Where Dr Iain Turnbull has been quoted
- 01Horror study exposes scale of undiagnosed high blood pressure - 'concerning'express.co.uk · 5 Oct 2026
- 02Current approach to detecting and treating hypertension is not working, say researchers - Pulse Todaypulsetoday.co.uk · 25 Sept 2026
- 03Millions in England unaware they have condition that raises stroke risknrtimes.co.uk · 24 Sept 2026
- 04Only half of people 'treated by GP have blood pressure under control' - Oxford studyoxfordmail.co.uk · 24 Sept 2026
- 05High blood pressure: Only half of people 'treated by GP have it under control'shropshirestar.com · 23 Sept 2026
Verbatim
“Many patients with high blood pressure are undetected or are sub-optimally treated. There is a need for a more proactive approach to detection of high blood pressure and to consider initiation of treatment based on predicted risk of cardiovascular disease in addition to levels of blood pressure.”
“Many patients with high blood pressure are undetected or are sub-optimally treated. There is a need for a more proactive approach to detection of high blood pressure and to consider initiation of treatment based on predicted risk of cardiovascular disease in addition to levels of blood pressure.”
“Even with those caveats, I wouldn't regard 50 per cent as a satisfactory figure. Persistently high blood pressure increases the risk of stroke and heart disease, and bringing it under control reduces that risk.”
“There is a need for a more proactive approach to detection of high blood pressure and to consider initiation of treatment based on predicted risk of cardiovascular disease in addition to levels of blood pressure.”
“Many patients with high blood pressure are undetected or are sub-optimally treated.”
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