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Hansard to 11 November 2026 · 31,429 contributions indexed · 1,439 MPs & peers
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Melanie Higgins: no photograph is held, so the clinician plate is shown instead.
Clinician
Melanie Higgins
Dr, Debella's medical consultant
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press citations on 1 topic since 23 Jan 2026 · last quoted 23 Jan 2026
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Melanie Higgins: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Clinician
- Role
- Dr, Debella's medical consultant
- Quoted on
- Mental health
- Tracked press citations
- 3
- Most recently quoted
- 23 Jan 2026
04 The signal · where Melanie Higgins sits on mental health
Ranked 21= of 100 voices quoted in the press on mental health, level with 16 others on 3 citations.
Ranked on press citations on this topic only, not across all topics. Joint positions share a rank.
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Professor Peter FonagyAcademicProfessor of Contemporary Psychoanalysis and Developmental Science; Head of the Division of Psychology and Language Sciences, University College London (UCL)22 - 2
Dr Sarah HughesSector leaderChief Executive, Mind (The National Association for Mental Health)10 - 3=Dr Sam JonesClinicianOfficer for Mental Health, Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH)7
- 21=Alison HackettClinicianDr, academic nurse, University of Stirling3
- 21=Greg MannionAcademicProfessor, co-author of the study3
- 21=Melanie HigginsClinicianDr, Debella's medical consultant3
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Dr Ian HigginsonClinicianPresident, Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM)2 - 38=Eric PowerRegulatorInterim Director, Centre for Guidelines, National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE)2
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05 On the record · press
What Melanie Higgins has said
By outlet · linked articles
- birminghammail.co.uk1
- manchestereveningnews.co.uk1
- shropshirestar.com1
Where Melanie Higgins has been quoted
- 01'Gore video fanatic' who stabbed grandmother at bus stop given indefinite hospital order - Manchester Evening Newsmanchestereveningnews.co.uk · 23 Jan 2026
- 02Killer who stabbed grandmother at bus stop detained indefinitelyshropshirestar.com · 23 Jan 2026
- 03Bus stop horror as man kills 'heart of family' gran after stabbing her 18 times - Birmingham Livebirminghammail.co.uk · 23 Jan 2026
Verbatim
“She said he suffered from paranoid schizophrenia and arrangements had been made for his continued admission at Ashworth High Secure Hospital in Merseyside.”
“he suffered from paranoid schizophrenia”
“She said he suffered from paranoid schizophrenia and arrangements had been made for his continued admission at Ashworth High Secure Hospital in Merseyside.”
Related media coverage
Recent UK press coverage of their topics, not necessarily citing them directly.
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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 12 Nov 2026. See the methodology for how this page is built, or email contact@bridgeheadcommunications.com to correct anything on it.