03 Profile
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Hansard to 11 November 2026 · 31,429 contributions indexed · 1,439 MPs & peers
All voices01 Voice · Sector leader · Dentistry access
Pauline Fletcher: no photograph is held, so the sector leader plate is shown instead.
Sector leader
Pauline Fletcher
Strategic head of dental contracting, North East and North Cumbria Integrated Care Board
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press citations on 1 topic since 26 Dec 2025 · last quoted 9 Jan 2026
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Pauline Fletcher: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Sector leader
- Role
- Strategic head of dental contracting, North East and North Cumbria Integrated Care Board
- Quoted on
- Dentistry access
- Tracked press citations
- 3
- Most recently quoted
- 9 Jan 2026
- First quoted
- 26 Dec 2025
04 The signal · where Pauline Fletcher sits on dentistry access
Ranked 24= of 100 voices quoted in the press on dentistry access, level with 17 others on 3 citations.
Ranked on press citations on this topic only, not across all topics. Joint positions share a rank.
- 1
Eddie CrouchUnionChair of the Principal Executive Committee (BDA Chair), British Dental Association63 - 2
Shiv PabaryClinicianChair, General Dental Practice Committee, British Dental Association40 - 3
Jason WongRegulatorChief Dental Officer for England, NHS England (joint appointment with the Department of Health and Social Care, based in NHS England)21 - 24=Sarah CardellSector leaderChief Executive of the Competition and Markets Authority3
- 24=Simon ThackerayAcademicDental practice owner3
- 24=Pauline FletcherSector leaderStrategic head of dental contracting, North East and North Cumbria Integrated Care Board3
- 24=Dr Emi MawsonAcademicdentist3
- 24=Professor Sir Mark CaulfieldAcademicVice-Principal (Health), Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry; Professor of Clinical Pharmacology, Queen Mary University of London3
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05 On the record · press
What Pauline Fletcher has said
By outlet · linked articles
- chroniclelive.co.uk1
- northumberlandgazette.co.uk1
- sunderlandecho.com1
Where Pauline Fletcher has been quoted
- 01NHS bosses outline recruitment challenges for dentists in rural Northumberland | Chronicle Livechroniclelive.co.uk · 9 Jan 2026
- 02NHS bosses outline dentist recruitment challenges in Northumberlandnorthumberlandgazette.co.uk · 8 Jan 2026
- 03NHS bosses target Sunderland as 'priority area' to improve access to dentistssunderlandecho.com · 26 Dec 2025
Verbatim
“Workforce retention and recruitment is an issue. There has been a shift towards more private dental care and we have seen a number of dental practices that have exited the NHS altogether.”
“Believe it or not, Covid and the impact on dentistry is still an issue.”
“Unfortunately in Sunderland I think we're concerned that we haven't had the response from our local dental providers that we have started to get in some other areas”
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