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Hansard to 13 November 2026 · 31,544 contributions indexed · 1,439 MPs & peers
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Dr Peter Cairns: no photograph is held, so the clinician plate is shown instead.
Clinician
Dr Peter Cairns
GP working at a practice in Edinburgh
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Quoted in the press, across 1 topic since 24 Feb 2026
02 Quoted on · 1 of 29 topics
Dr Peter Cairns: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Clinician
- Role
- GP working at a practice in Edinburgh
- Quoted on
- GP access
- Press coverage
- Quoted in the press
- Most recently quoted
- 24 Feb 2026
04 On the record · press
What Dr Peter Cairns has said
By outlet · bar length shows relative volume
- bbc.com
Where Dr Peter Cairns has been quoted
- Will walk-in GP clinics deliver one million extra appointments?bbc.com · 24 Feb 2026
How we found the articles that name Dr Peter Cairns: we searched news for these terms.
- GP access
- general practice
- GP appointments
- primary care access
- GP shortage
Also searched with “GP access” in each of 8 national papers, and in the Guardian by editor tag, and in trade press by category. Every term for GP access
Verbatim
“In this practice population, at least 10% - perhaps 12 or 13% - of our population wants to see a GP most weeks. Realistically we only have the staffing resources to service about 7.5% of our population.”
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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 5 Oct 2026. See the methodology for how this page is built, or email contact@bridgeheadcommunications.com to correct anything on it.