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Academic
Professor Jo Knight
Lancaster Medical School
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Quoted in the press, across 1 topic since 25 Apr 2026
02 Quoted on · 1 of 29 topics
Professor Jo Knight: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Academic
- Role
- Lancaster Medical School
- Quoted on
- A&E & ambulance response
- Press coverage
- Quoted in the press
- Most recently quoted
- 27 Apr 2026
- First quoted
- 25 Apr 2026
04 On the record · press
What Professor Jo Knight has said
By outlet · bar length shows relative volume
- lancasterguardian.co.uk
- lep.co.uk
Where Professor Jo Knight has been quoted
- Lancaster research finds NHS strikes improve emergency hospital admissionslancasterguardian.co.uk · 27 Apr 2026
- Royal Preston patients 'wait less time in A&E when doctors are on strike'lep.co.uk · 25 Apr 2026
How we found the articles that name Professor Jo Knight: we searched news for these terms.
- A&E waiting times
- A&E department
- accident and emergency
- ambulance response times
- ambulance handover
- ambulance waiting
- ambulance service
- emergency department
Also searched with “A&E waiting times” in each of 8 national papers, and in the Guardian by editor tag, and in trade press by category. Every term for A&E & ambulance response
Verbatim
“This study found improved flow through the ED during certain strike days, which we infer is largely due to improved inpatient capacity. This suggests that during non-strike periods, patient flow through NHS EDs can be improved by expanding capacity and efficiently discharging medically fit patients.”
“Until you actually evidence it, sometimes it's difficult to get people to sit up and listen and make the changes. Also, if it's obvious, why haven't we done it yet - and what more is needed to make us do it? This research could be [amongst] the statistics used to influence those decisions.”
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