Professor Irene Higginson OBE: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Academic
- Role
- Professor of Palliative Care & Policy, Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery & Palliative Care and Co-Director, King's Population Health Institute
- Quoted on
- Maternity & neonatal, Unpaid carers
- Press citations held
- 3
- Most recently quoted
- 30 Sept 2026
- First quoted
- 28 Sept 2026
“Their research has the potential to influence access to safe maternity care and to inform the forthcoming national maternity investigation.”
What Professor Irene Higginson OBE has said
“Most of us will provide unpaid care at some point in our lives. Yet this survey shows that we substantially underestimate how likely that is.”
co-director of the King's Better Health & Care Hub · Unpaid carers · 28 Sept 2026 · Brits are more likely to become an unpaid carer than they think ↗
“Most of us will provide unpaid care at some point in our lives. Yet this survey shows that we substantially underestimate how likely that is, even though nearly three-quarters of people recognise that our health and care system could not cope without unpaid carers – a view shared across political divides. Carers are not at the margins of the system – they are central to it.”
Co-Director of the King's Better Health & Care Hub · Unpaid carers · 28 Sept 2026 · Public hugely underestimate likelihood of becoming unpaid carers – yet believe system would collapse without them ↗
Where Professor Irene Higginson OBE has been quoted
- Into the Archive - Inequalities in Access to Maternity Care Londonkcl.ac.uk · 30 Sept 2026
- Brits are more likely to become an unpaid carer than they thinkbigissue.com · 28 Sept 2026
- Public hugely underestimate likelihood of becoming unpaid carers – yet believe system would collapse without themkcl.ac.uk · 28 Sept 2026
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