03 Profile
Vital Signsby Bridgehead
Hansard to 11 November 2026 · 31,429 contributions indexed · 1,439 MPs & peers
All voices01 Voice · Clinician · Palliative & end of life care
Julie McFadden: no photograph is held, so the clinician plate is shown instead.
Clinician
Julie McFadden
Hospice nurse with 16 years of experience
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press citations on 2 topics since 16 Jun 2026 · last quoted 3 Nov 2026
02 Quoted on · 2 of 29 topics
Julie McFadden: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Clinician
- Role
- Hospice nurse with 16 years of experience
- Quoted on
- Palliative & end of life care, Dementia
- Tracked press citations
- 9
- Most recently quoted
- 3 Nov 2026
- First quoted
- 16 Jun 2026
04 The signal · where Julie McFadden sits on palliative & end of life care
Ranked 10= of 100 voices quoted in the press on palliative & end of life care, level with 6 others on 6 citations.
Ranked on press citations on this topic only, not across all topics. Joint positions share a rank.
- 1Vicki GreensmithAcademicDirector of Clinical Services at Martin House16
- 2
Dr Sam RoystonSector leaderExecutive Director of Research and Policy, Marie Curie13 - 3
Dr Michelle HillsClinicianChief Medical Officer and Consultant in Paediatric Palliative Medicine, Martin House Children's Hospice11 - 10=
Dr Ian HigginsonClinicianPresident, Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM)6 - 10=
Lynn WoolseyUnionChief Nursing Officer, Royal College of Nursing6 - 10=Julie McFaddenClinicianHospice nurse with 16 years of experience6
- 10=
Charlie KingSector leaderDirector of External Affairs, Hospice UK6 - 10=Sarah HolmesClinicianChief Medical Officer, Marie Curie6
Showing the leaders and the ranks around 10=, of 100 voices · See every voice on the topic →
05 On the record · press
What Julie McFadden has said
By outlet · linked articles
- dailyrecord.co.uk2
- dailystar.co.uk2
- cambridge-news.co.uk1
- getsurrey.co.uk1
- gloucestershirelive.co.uk1
Where Julie McFadden has been quoted
- 01Hospice nurse explains 'beautiful' thing almost every dying patient sees at enddailystar.co.uk · 3 Nov 2026
- 02Hospice nurse settles why patients often die alone - not when family are in roomdailystar.co.uk · 23 Oct 2026
- 03'I'm a hospice nurse - warning sign on skin rapidly appears just before death'dailyrecord.co.uk · 14 Oct 2026
- 04Hospice nurse shares rapid skin change that is 'huge indicator' of deathgetsurrey.co.uk · 14 Oct 2026
- 05Hospice nurse says warning sign on skin appears days before deathmirror.co.uk · 14 Oct 2026
- 06Hospice nurse shares six early dementia red flags loved ones often missgloucestershirelive.co.uk · 8 Jul 2026
- 07Six early dementia warning signs families miss, according to a hospice nursecambridge-news.co.uk · 8 Jul 2026
- 08'I'm a hospice nurse - there are six early signs of dementia families can miss'dailyrecord.co.uk · 8 Jul 2026
- 09Hospice nurse says all patients make same move moments before they dieladbible.com · 16 Jun 2026
Verbatim
“This is when someone sees someone who has died already that they usually love and know, (they might) have conversations right in front of us with these people that we don't see.”
“Sometimes, the body just needs less stimuli. It's really quiet, no one's around, no one's touching them. It's almost like their body can slip away.”
“Kennedy ulcers do exist and they could mean that your loved one is getting closer to death than you think.”
“The Kennedy ulcer is very specific because it's not there and then boom, it's there, and then boom, they die. That's how quick the Kennedy ulcer thing is.”
“The Kennedy ulcer is very specific because it's not there and then boom, it's there, and then boom, they die. That's how quick the Kennedy ulcer thing is.”
“Please hear me when I say, this is not being forgetful. This is very different.”
“Please hear me when I say, this is not being forgetful. This is very different.”
“Here's what I'll tell you, if you feel like something is off, it's probably off. So get it checked out. It's not going to hurt you any and early intervention is so important.”
“Here's one phenomenon that happens during the death and dying process that medical professionals, like myself, cannot explain.”
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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.