Prof Ian Wilkinson: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Clinician
- Role
- honorary consultant physician at the University of Cambridge and president of the British and Irish Hypertension Society
- Quoted on
- Hospital discharge / bed-blocking
- Tracked press citations
- 1
- Most recently quoted
- 27 Aug 2026
“What we're currently doing is waiting for people to get to 40 or 50, waiting for their blood pressure to rise, and then treating them. We are ignoring younger people.”
Where Prof Ian Wilkinson has been quoted
- Call for routine high blood pressure testing of UK children as cases almost doubletheguardian.com · 27 Aug 2026
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