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Julie Kirby: no photograph is held, so the clinician plate is shown instead.
Clinician
Julie Kirby
Acting chief nurse, Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust
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Quoted in the press, across 2 topics since 12 May 2026
02 Quoted on · 2 of 29 topics
Julie Kirby: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Clinician
- Role
- Acting chief nurse, Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust
- Quoted on
- Mental health, NHS & care workforce/staffing
- Press coverage
- Quoted in the press
- Most recently quoted
- 4 Sept 2026
- First quoted
- 12 May 2026
04 On the record · press
What Julie Kirby has said
By outlet · bar length shows relative volume
- bbc.co.uk
- nursingtimes.net
Where Julie Kirby has been quoted
- Kent mental health hub in Dover re-opens after extensive refurbbbc.co.uk · 4 Sept 2026
- Kent and Medway NHS trust cuts longest waits for mental health supportbbc.co.uk · 22 Aug 2026
- New council set up to ‘strengthen voices’ of Kent nurses | Nursing Timesnursingtimes.net · 12 May 2026
How we found the articles that name Julie Kirby: we searched news for these terms, by topic. Terms for 2 topics
Mental health
- mental health
- mental health services
- CAMHS
- psychiatric
- suicide prevention
- mental health crisis
- talking therapies
- IAPT
Also searched with “mental health” in each of 8 national papers, and in the Guardian by editor tag. Every term for Mental health
NHS & care workforce/staffing
- NHS workforce
- staff shortages
- nursing shortage
- nurse recruitment
- care workforce
- care worker pay
- social care workforce
- NHS long term workforce plan
Also searched with “NHS workforce” in each of 8 national papers, and in the Guardian by editor tag, and in trade press by category. Every term for NHS & care workforce/staffing
Verbatim
“If you're sitting in a room it's very dark and you're trying to have a one-to-one therapy session, for example, that impacts that session more significantly.”
“While we know there is more to do, we are pleased that 144 fewer people are now waiting more than 38 weeks for support than at the start of the year...”
“Nurses play a critical role in delivering mental health care and supporting patients every day, often working in complex and challenging environments.”
Related media coverage
Recent UK press coverage of their topics, not necessarily citing them directly.
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- Social care: Burnham’s National Care Service has no offer yet for working-age adultsLearning Disability Today
Doctors, nurses, allied health professionals and other registered clinicians quoted in a clinical capacity. 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 13 Nov 2026. See the methodology for how this page is built, or email contact@bridgeheadcommunications.com to correct anything on it.