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Hansard to 11 November 2026 · 31,429 contributions indexed · 1,439 MPs & peers
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Iyamide Thomas: no photograph is held, so the sector leader plate is shown instead.
Sector leader
Iyamide Thomas
NHS Engagement Lead for Screening Programme
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press citations on 1 topic since 6 Sept 2026 · last quoted 6 Sept 2026
02 Quoted on · 1 of 29 topics
Iyamide Thomas: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Sector leader
- Role
- NHS Engagement Lead for Screening Programme
- Quoted on
- Rare diseases
- Tracked press citations
- 3
- Most recently quoted
- 6 Sept 2026
04 The signal · where Iyamide Thomas sits on rare diseases
Ranked 12= of 100 voices quoted in the press on rare diseases, level with 12 others on 3 citations.
Ranked on press citations on this topic only, not across all topics. Joint positions share a rank.
- 1Giles LomaxSector leaderChief Executive Officer, Spinal Muscular Atrophy UK (SMA UK)9
- 2Dr Harrison CarterAcademicDirector of Screening at NHS England8
- 3=
Prof Dame Sue HillRegulatorChief Scientific Officer for England and Senior Responsible Officer for Genomics, NHS England7 - 12=
Dr Karolina StepienClinicianConsultant in Adult Inherited Metabolic Diseases (Adult Metabolic Medicine), Salford Royal Hospital, Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust3 - 12=Levi GarrawaySector leaderChief medical officer, Roche3
- 12=Iyamide ThomasSector leaderNHS Engagement Lead for Screening Programme3
- 12=
Vinay PrasadAcademicProfessor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and Medicine; hematologist-oncologist, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)3 - 25=
Helen KnightRegulatorDirector of Medicines Evaluation, National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE)2
Showing the leaders and the ranks around 12=, of 100 voices · See every voice on the topic →
05 On the record · press
What Iyamide Thomas has said
By outlet · linked articles
- aol.co.uk1
- independent.co.uk1
- mirror.co.uk1
Where Iyamide Thomas has been quoted
- 01Sickle cell breakthrough transformed patients' lives - but thousands more blood donors needed urgently - AOLaol.co.uk · 6 Sept 2026
- 02Sickle cell patients given 'new lease of life' as urgent appeal made for donorsmirror.co.uk · 6 Sept 2026
- 03NHS issues urgent appeal for blood donors as fears grow over sickle cell treatmentindependent.co.uk · 6 Sept 2026
Verbatim
“The past 20 years have brought significant progress for people living with sickle cell disorder. Newborn screening means babies can be diagnosed before they become seriously unwell and connected to specialist care from the very beginning of their lives.”
“The past 20 years have brought significant progress for people living with sickle cell disorder. Newborn screening means babies can be diagnosed before they become seriously unwell and connected to specialist care from the very beginning of their lives.”
“Newborn screening means babies can be diagnosed before they become seriously unwell and connected to specialist care from the very beginning of their lives.”
Related media coverage
Recent UK press coverage of their topics, not necessarily citing them directly.
- Coventry tot's heartbreaking health battle after 'extremely rare' diagnosiscoventrytelegraph.net
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- 'Immoral lottery' - Mum's plea after losing daughter to rare diseasethewestmorlandgazette.co.uk
Chief executives, directors and spokespeople of trade bodies, representative associations and charities speaking for the sector. 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.