03 Profile
Vital Signsby Bridgehead
Hansard to 12 November 2026 · 31,484 contributions indexed · 1,439 MPs & peers
All voices01 Voice · Clinician · Palliative & end of life care
Kirsty Smith: no photograph is held, so the clinician plate is shown instead.
Clinician
Kirsty Smith
Inpatient unit matron, St Helena Hospice; nurse
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Quoted in the press, across 1 topic since 6 Dec 2025
02 Quoted on · 1 of 29 topics
Kirsty Smith: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Clinician
- Role
- Inpatient unit matron, St Helena Hospice; nurse
- Quoted on
- Palliative & end of life care
- Press coverage
- Quoted in the press
- Most recently quoted
- 5 Oct 2026
- First quoted
- 6 Dec 2025
04 The signal · where Kirsty Smith sits on palliative & end of life care
Leading
One of the voices most often quoted in the press on palliative & end of life care.
Placed by press coverage on this topic only, not across all topics.
- Vicki GreensmithAcademicDirector of Clinical Services at Martin HouseLeading
- Julie McFaddenClinicianHospice nurse with 16 years of experienceLeading
Dr Sam RoystonSector leaderExecutive Director of Research and Policy, Marie CurieLeading- Dr Karen ChumbleySector leaderco-chief executive of St Helena HospiceLeading
- Dr Joanna DaviesAcademicCicely Saunders Institute, King's College LondonLeading
- Kirsty SmithClinicianInpatient unit matron, St Helena Hospice; nurseLeading
- Hollie SiuClinicianCare team nurse at Martin HouseLeading
- Elinor EustaceSector leaderChief executive, St Giles HospiceLeading
Showing the leading voices and those placed around Kirsty Smith · See every voice on the topic →
05 On the record · press
What Kirsty Smith has said
By outlet · bar length shows relative volume
- gazette-news.co.uk
- bbc.com
- clactonandfrintongazette.co.uk
- harwichandmanningtreestandard.co.uk
Where Kirsty Smith has been quoted
- St Helena Hospice staff share the privilege of caring for people at life's endclactonandfrintongazette.co.uk · 5 Oct 2026
- Meet the staff at St Helena Hospice working to spread holiday cheerharwichandmanningtreestandard.co.uk · 25 Dec 2025
- Colchester United stars bring festive cheer for families at St Helena's Hospicegazette-news.co.uk · 14 Dec 2025
- Colchester United players spread cheer during hospice visitbbc.com · 12 Dec 2025
- Christmas comes early for St Helena Hospice thanks to Colchester shopgazette-news.co.uk · 6 Dec 2025
How we found the articles that name Kirsty Smith: we searched news for these terms.
- palliative care
- end of life care
- hospice
- terminal illness
Also searched with “palliative care” in each of 8 national papers, and in the Guardian by editor tag, and in trade press by category. Every term for Palliative & end of life care
Verbatim
“It's an incredible privilege to be with them during those difficult times and being able to make a difference for them.”
“Some patients want to celebrate, and others find it difficult, so we are sensitive to this.”
“It's also a very difficult time of year for a lot of patients and their families, so it's about making memories in whatever things that we're doing.”
“having special moments like this around this time of year really means a lot to them”
“We try to make Christmas at the hospice homely for our patients and families, and the real trees give a warm feeling to the hospice.”
Related media coverage
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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.