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Hansard to 9 November 2026 · 31,243 contributions indexed · 1,439 MPs & peers
All voices01 Voice · Sector leader · Assisted dying
Mike Smith: no photograph is held, so the sector leader plate is shown instead.
Sector leader
Mike Smith
spokesperson for Not Dead Yet UK
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press citations on 2 topics since 30 Jul 2026 · last quoted 8 Oct 2026
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Mike Smith: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Sector leader
- Role
- spokesperson for Not Dead Yet UK
- Quoted on
- Assisted dying, Public health & prevention
- Tracked press citations
- 3
- Most recently quoted
- 8 Oct 2026
- First quoted
- 30 Jul 2026
04 The signal · where Mike Smith sits on assisted dying
Ranked 8= of 100 voices quoted in the press on assisted dying, level with 12 others on 2 citations.
Ranked on press citations on this topic only, not across all topics. Joint positions share a rank.
- Public health & prevention53= of 100
- 1
Dr Gordon MacdonaldSector leaderChief Executive, Care Not Killing9 - 2
Dr Alex AllinsonClinicianGP; former Member of the House of Keys (MHK) for Ramsey, Isle of Man4 - 3=
Prof Nicola RangerUnionGeneral Secretary and Chief Executive, Royal College of Nursing3 - 8=
Aidan FowlerRegulatorNational Director of Patient Safety, NHS England; Deputy Chief Medical Officer, Department of Health and Social Care2 - 8=
Sandesh GulhaneClinicianGeneral practitioner (NHS); former Scottish Conservative Shadow Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care and former MSP for Glasgow2 - 8=Mike SmithSector leaderspokesperson for Not Dead Yet UK2
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Professor Katherine SleemanAcademicLaing Galazka Chair in Palliative Care; Honorary Consultant in Palliative Medicine, King's College London (Cicely Saunders Institute of Palliative Care, Policy & Rehabilitation)2 - 8=
Dr Libby SallnowAcademicHead of the Marie Curie Palliative Care Research Department and Marie Curie Associate Professor of Palliative and End-of-Life Care, University College London (UCL), Marie Curie Palliative Care Research Department, Division of Psychiatry2
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05 On the record · press
What Mike Smith has said
By outlet · linked articles
- disabilitynewsservice.com1
- ipswich.co.uk1
- lbc.co.uk1
Where Mike Smith has been quoted
- 01West Ipswich smoking rate double the county averageipswich.co.uk · 8 Oct 2026
- 02Almost eight in ten say disabled people need better care before assisted suicide is approvedlbc.co.uk · 10 Sept 2026
- 03Burnham delivers significant blow to assisted dying bill as he launches attempt to ‘fix’ social care fundingdisabilitynewsservice.com · 30 Jul 2026
Verbatim
“Whatever your age and however long you have smoked, quitting reduces your risk of serious illnesses such as cancer, heart disease and stroke, and the benefits begin almost straight away.”
“We need to sort out palliative care, social care and the support disabled people rely on before Parliament introduces assisted suicide.”
“Not Dead Yet UK welcomes the comments made by Andy Burnham on the importance of fixing social care and palliative care before any meaningful debate can be had on assisted suicide.”
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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 10 Nov 2026. See the methodology for how this page is built, or email contact@bridgeheadcommunications.com to correct anything on it.