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Vital Signsby Bridgehead
Hansard to 11 November 2026 · 31,429 contributions indexed · 1,439 MPs & peers
All voices01 Voice · Clinician · Cancer
Ian Paterson: no photograph is held, so the clinician plate is shown instead.
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Ian Paterson
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press citations on 1 topic since 31 Jan 2026 · last quoted 9 Jun 2026
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Ian Paterson: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Clinician
- Role
- Surgeon
- Quoted on
- Cancer
- Tracked press citations
- 5
- Most recently quoted
- 9 Jun 2026
- First quoted
- 31 Jan 2026
04 The signal · where Ian Paterson sits on cancer
Ranked 20= of 100 voices quoted in the press on cancer, level with 14 others on 5 citations.
Ranked on press citations on this topic only, not across all topics. Joint positions share a rank.
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Prof Peter JohnsonClinicianNational Clinical Director for Cancer, NHS England53 - 2
Michelle MitchellSector leaderChief Executive, Cancer Research UK18 - 3
Professor Victoria Tzortziou BrownClinicianChair of Council, Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP)17 - 20=Mark LawlerAcademicAssociate Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Professor of Digital Health and Chair in Translational Cancer Genomics, Queen's University Belfast5
- 20=Alex BensonClinicianConsultant Plastic Surgeon and Clinical Lead for skin cancer at CMCA5
- 20=Ian PatersonClinicianSurgeon5
- 20=Pedro RamirezAcademicProfessor and chairman of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Houston Methodist Hospital5
- 20=Amy BerringtonAcademicProfessor, Institute of Cancer Research5
Showing the leaders and the ranks around 20=, of 100 voices · See every voice on the topic →
05 On the record · press
What Ian Paterson has said
By outlet · linked articles
- bbc.com3
- dailymail.co.uk1
- mirror.co.uk1
Where Ian Paterson has been quoted
- 01Ian Paterson patient Tracey Taylor 'let down at every point'bbc.com · 9 Jun 2026
- 02Ian Paterson denies patient Marie Pinfield's operation was mastectomybbc.com · 22 Apr 2026
- 03Inquest questions speed of Ian Paterson mastectomybbc.com · 17 Mar 2026
- 04I had my breast mutilated by butcher surgeon with harrowing motivedailymail.co.uk · 10 Feb 2026
- 05'Butcher surgeon Ian Paterson gave me needless mastectomy but worst was yet to come' - The Mirrormirror.co.uk · 31 Jan 2026
Verbatim
“As you've denied me legal funding, I don't want to use my limited resources”
“She didn't have a flat chest wall, that was never the plan, he said. I did think I'd delivered what she wanted.”
“I suspect it's been included to allege what happened.”
“Every surgeon leaves behind breast tissue - they don't do it intentionally, but it happens.”
“You'll go in with two boobs and come out with two boobs and a nice flat stomach”
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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 12 Nov 2026. See the methodology for how this page is built, or email contact@bridgeheadcommunications.com to correct anything on it.