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Hansard to 13 November 2026 · 31,544 contributions indexed · 1,439 MPs & peers
All voices01 Voice · Clinician · Learning disability & autism
Dr Julian Spinks: no photograph is held, so the clinician plate is shown instead.
Clinician
Dr Julian Spinks
doctor and KMTV health expert
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Quoted in the press, across 5 topics since 31 Mar 2026
02 Quoted on · 5 of 29 topics
Dr Julian Spinks: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Clinician
- Role
- doctor and KMTV health expert
- Quoted on
- Learning disability & autism, Adult social care & reform, Public health & preventionand 2 more
- Press coverage
- Quoted in the press
- Most recently quoted
- 30 Oct 2026
- First quoted
- 31 Mar 2026
04 The signal · where Dr Julian Spinks sits on learning disability & autism
Quoted
Quoted in the press on learning disability & autism.
Placed by press coverage on this topic only, not across all topics.
Jon SparkesSector leaderChief Executive, Royal Mencap SocietyLeading
Professor Peter FonagyAcademicProfessor of Contemporary Psychoanalysis and Developmental Science; Head of the Division of Psychology and Language Sciences, University College London (UCL)Leading
Professor Dame Uta FrithAcademicEmeritus Professor of Cognitive Development, UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College LondonLeading
Steph LawrenceSector leaderChief Executive, The Queen's Institute of Community Nursing (QICN, formerly the Queen's Nursing Institute)
Guohua LiAcademicProfessor of Epidemiology and Mieczyslaw Finster Professor of Anesthesiology; founding director, Center for Injury Epidemiology and Prevention, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health- Dr Julian SpinksCliniciandoctor and KMTV health expert
- Dr Ed CettiAcademicchief medical officer at Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust
- Prof Claire TaylorSector leaderVice Chancellor and Chief Executive of Marjon University
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05 On the record · press
What Dr Julian Spinks has said
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- kentonline.co.uk
- bbc.co.uk
- kentlive.news
Where Dr Julian Spinks has been quoted
- Kent GP's verdict on 'American Covid' and the symptoms to look forkentonline.co.uk · 30 Oct 2026
- Kent NHS autism and ADHD spend rises to £29m amid growing demandbbc.co.uk · 26 Oct 2026
- Why has Kent's NHS bill for autism and ADHD soared 45-fold in two years?kentonline.co.uk · 25 Oct 2026
- Too Rare to Matter? Kent families campaign for access to treatments for children with rare diseaseskentonline.co.uk · 28 Aug 2026
- 'Medication turned my quiet dad into a hyper-sexualised gambler'bbc.co.uk · 10 Jun 2026
- “It’s a broken system”: Why is adult social care costing Kent taxpayers hundreds of millions of pounds a year?kentlive.news · 6 Apr 2026
- Cost of adult social care in Kent continues to rise for Kent County Council and Medway Councilkentonline.co.uk · 31 Mar 2026
How we found the articles that name Dr Julian Spinks: we searched news for these terms, by topic. Terms for 5 topics
Learning disability & autism
- learning disability
- autism
- autistic
- SEND
- EHCP
- special educational needs
- ADHD
- Down's syndrome
Also searched with “learning disability” in each of 8 national papers, and in the Guardian by editor tag, and in trade press by category. Every term for Learning disability & autism
Adult social care & reform
- adult social care
- social care reform
- social care funding
- Casey Commission
- care cap
- Dilnot
- charging reform
- Care Act
Also searched with “adult social care” in each of 8 national papers, and in the Guardian by editor tag, and in trade press by category. Every term for Adult social care & reform
Public health & prevention
- public health
- preventative healthcare
- prevention agenda
- health prevention
- obesity strategy
- childhood obesity
- smoking cessation
- smoke-free
Also searched with “public health” in each of 8 national papers, and in the Guardian by editor tag, and in trade press by category. Every term for Public health & prevention
Rare diseases
- rare disease
- rare conditions
- orphan drugs
- genetic disorder
- cystic fibrosis
- motor neurone disease
- muscular dystrophy
- Huntington
Also searched with “rare disease” in each of 8 national papers. Every term for Rare diseases
Medical ethics & regulation
- medical ethics
- General Medical Council
- GMC
- fitness to practise
- patient consent
- Mental Capacity Act
- conscientious objection
- medical confidentiality
Also searched with “medical ethics” in each of 8 national papers. Every term for Medical ethics & regulation
Verbatim
“There isn't really evidence that this new one is significantly worse than the ones that have gone before.”
“There's been a steady increase for some time and that reflects two things - greater awareness and people coming forward for themselves or their children.”
“It's a continuum from absolutely normal to very severely affected. The question of at what point you put a formal diagnosis on it is a hard one.”
“With rare diseases, a lot of them, you have only got a very small number of people who are affected. So if you are a company devising a new treatment, to get your money back you have got to charge an awful lot of money.”
“If people are going to be prescribed them, they need to be properly consulted as to the risks and what to watch out for, and their friends and family need to know about that as well.”
“The older you get, the more likely you are to have illnesses, and particularly when you get very old, to be frail and rely on other people to provide most of their care. All of that adds to the cost of adult social care.”
“The older you get, the more likely you are to have illnesses, and particularly when you get very old, to be frail and rely on other people to provide most of their care. All of that adds to the cost of adult social care.”
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