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Lauren Byrne

Senior Policy and Campaigns Adviser, Royal College of Physicians

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Quoted in the press, across 1 topic since 10 Nov 2025

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OfficeRoyal College of Physicians, London, NW1 4LERoyal College of Physicians is based in Holborn and St Pancras (London): the organisation’s base, not a personal address.

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Lauren Byrne: key facts

Kind of voice
Sector leader
Role
Senior Policy and Campaigns Adviser
Organisation
Royal College of Physicians
Organisation based in
Holborn and St Pancras
Quoted on
Care home closures & provider failure
Press coverage
Quoted in the press
Most recently quoted
27 May 2026
First quoted
10 Nov 2025

03  Profile

Who Lauren Byrne is

Lauren Byrne works on health policy and campaigns at the Royal College of Physicians (RCP). According to her LinkedIn profile, she joined as Senior Policy and Campaigns Adviser after leaving Care Rights UK, where she was Policy and Campaigns Lead.

Care Rights UK is a charity that defends the rights of people in care. At Care Rights UK she was quoted in the press on care home evictions, including so-called 'revenge evictions' of residents who complain, and on staff training and retention in residential care. She also argued for a legal right to a Care Supporter (Gloria's Law), for care regulation to be grounded in individual rights, and for social care reform to be treated as a priority in its own right.

At the RCP she says she is looking at healthcare policy themes such as clinical transformation and workforce. Her profile lists the University of Edinburgh under education.

Notable achievements

  1. 01

    Was quoted in The i Paper on staff training and retention in residential care homes, while Policy and Campaigns Lead at Care Rights UK. Source ↗

  2. 02

    Was quoted on the rise of 'revenge evictions' of care home residents, in press coverage that Care Rights UK reports appeared in The Telegraph. Source ↗

  3. 03

    Wrote Care Rights UK's published policy responses, including on the Government's January 2025 social care reform package and on the terms of reference of the Casey independent commission on adult social care. Source ↗

  4. 04

    Attended the Care Quality Commission's State of Care 2025 launch for Care Rights UK and urged the regulator to adapt how it inspects and rates providers. Source ↗

04  The signal · where Lauren Byrne sits on care home closures & provider failure

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One of the voices most often quoted in the press on care home closures & provider failure.

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  3. Catriona EglintonRegulatorDeputy Director of Adult Social Care (Kent), Care Quality Commission (CQC)Leading
  4. Nikkie PhippsRegulatorAssistant Director for Care Services, Westmorland and Furness CouncilLeading
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  6. Matthew JonesSector leaderdivisional director for Wiltshire at The Orders of St John Care TrustLeading
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05  On the record · press

What Lauren Byrne has said

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  • bigissue.com
  • inews.co.uk
  • telegraph.co.uk

Where Lauren Byrne has been quoted

  1. Care homes evict 6,500 residents as providers struggletelegraph.co.uk · 27 May 2026
  2. Care homes are evicting thousands of vulnerable and older people each yearinews.co.uk · 21 Dec 2025
  3. Revealed: Thousands of elderly people evicted from care homes every yearbigissue.com · 10 Nov 2025

How we found the articles that name Lauren Byrne: we searched news for these terms.

  • care home closure
  • provider failure
  • residential care closure
  • care home insolvency
  • care home fees
  • care home places
  • care market
  • market sustainability

Also searched with “care home closure” in each of 8 national papers, and in the Guardian by editor tag, and in trade press by category. Every term for Care home closures & provider failure

Verbatim

“Our advice line hears of people receiving notices to quit from their care provider every week. Most commonly, the reason given will be that the care provider is no longer able to meet that person's needs.”
Care Rights UK · Care home closures & provider failure · telegraph.co.uk · 27 May 2026 · Read the article
“There are real challenges in residential care homes in terms of staff training and retention, because the sector is poorly funded”
Policy and campaigns lead, Care Rights UK · Care home closures & provider failure · inews.co.uk · 21 Dec 2025 · Read the article
“There are other reasons why you might be evicted from a care home, if it's closing down due to lack of funding or other issues with the facility, but it's much more common that people reach out to us for advice about a revenge eviction”
policy and campaigns lead, Care Rights UK · Care home closures & provider failure · bigissue.com · 10 Nov 2025 · Read the article

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06  Sources

References for this biography

  1. Lauren Byrne - Royal College of Physicians (LinkedIn). Her move from Policy and Campaigns Lead at Care Rights UK to Senior Policy and Campaigns Adviser at the RCP, her stated policy interests there, and her Edinburgh education. The posts are undated in the snippet, so the start date of the RCP role is unconfirmed.
  2. Media coverage — Care Rights UK. Press quotes from her as Policy and Campaigns Lead on care home evictions, revenge evictions, staff training and retention, and care regulation.
  3. Policy & Campaigns — Care Rights UK. Her role in Care Rights UK's policy and campaigns work, and the charity's focus on care rights and Gloria's Law.
  4. Commission into adult social care reform launches — Care Rights UK. Authorship of Care Rights UK's response to the Casey commission, including the argument that social care should not be seen as a way of propping up the NHS.
  5. State of Care 2025 — Care Rights UK. Her authorship and advocacy to the CQC on inspection and rating.
  6. Providers Unite for Social Care Funding — Care Rights UK. Her writing on social care funding and her call for cross-party support for social care in its own right.
  7. Palliative and end-of-life care modern service framework announced — Care Rights UK. Her writing on end-of-life care training for care workers.
  8. Contact us — Royal College of Physicians. The RCP's head-office address: 11 St Andrews Place, Regent's Park, London NW1 4LE.

07  Contact & links

LinkedIn
linkedin.com/in/laurenbyrne21

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Chief executives, directors and spokespeople of trade bodies, representative associations and charities speaking for the sector. 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 12 Nov 2026. See the methodology for how this page is built, or email contact@bridgeheadcommunications.com to correct anything on it.