03 Profile
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Hansard to 11 November 2026 · 31,429 contributions indexed · 1,439 MPs & peers
All voices01 Voice · Clinician · Learning disability & autism
Iona Heath: no photograph is held, so the clinician plate is shown instead.
Clinician
Iona Heath
Former RCGP president and GP
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press citations on 1 topic since 3 Aug 2026 · last quoted 24 Aug 2026
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Iona Heath: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Clinician
- Role
- Former RCGP president and GP
- Quoted on
- Learning disability & autism
- Tracked press citations
- 2
- Most recently quoted
- 24 Aug 2026
- First quoted
- 3 Aug 2026
04 The signal · where Iona Heath sits on learning disability & autism
Ranked 19= of 100 voices quoted in the press on learning disability & autism, level with 30 others on 2 citations.
Ranked on press citations on this topic only, not across all topics. Joint positions share a rank.
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Jon SparkesSector leaderChief Executive, Royal Mencap Society22 - 2
Professor Peter FonagyAcademicProfessor of Contemporary Psychoanalysis and Developmental Science; Head of the Division of Psychology and Language Sciences, University College London (UCL)14 - 3=
Sir Simon WesselyAcademicRegius Professor of Psychiatry and Professor of Psychological Medicine, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN), King's College London8 - 19=Richard KyleClinicianProfessor of allied health & nursing at Plymouth Marjon University2
- 19=Amanda FrostSector leaderBCP resident with a learning disability, assistant manager of People First Forum and co-chair of the BCP Learning Disability Partnership Board2
- 19=Iona HeathClinicianFormer RCGP president and GP2
- 19=Dr Sue SmithClinicianHead of the Lorna Wing Centre, National Autistic Society2
- 19=Sue FranklinAcademicprincipal educational psychologist at Lewisham LBC and chair of the National Association of Principal Educational Psychologists2
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05 On the record · press
What Iona Heath has said
By outlet · linked articles
- pulsetoday.co.uk2
Where Iona Heath has been quoted
- 01ADHD documentary may push worried parents to seek GP help, says GPC UK chair - Pulse Todaypulsetoday.co.uk · 24 Aug 2026
- 02RCGP responds after former president quoted as saying ADHD is 'not a medical condition' - Pulse Todaypulsetoday.co.uk · 3 Aug 2026
Verbatim
“If you had a child who always played quietly, you would be worried about them, or you should be.”
“At this stage all I can say is that I don't think that the leadership of the RCGP should respond to a press release designed to get publicity before they have seen the programme itself and had an opportunity to consider how we should all approach what has become a very complex and challenging subject for both medicine and society.”
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