03 Profile
Vital Signsby Bridgehead
Hansard to 12 November 2026 · 31,484 contributions indexed · 1,439 MPs & peers
All voices01 Voice · Sector leader · Palliative & end of life care
Rachel Overfield: no photograph is held, so the sector leader plate is shown instead.
Sector leader
Rachel Overfield
Chief executive, Compton Care
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Quoted in the press, across 1 topic since 27 Jan 2026
02 Quoted on · 1 of 29 topics
Rachel Overfield: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Sector leader
- Role
- Chief executive, Compton Care
- Quoted on
- Palliative & end of life care
- Press coverage
- Quoted in the press
- Most recently quoted
- 16 Sept 2026
- First quoted
- 27 Jan 2026
04 The signal · where Rachel Overfield sits on palliative & end of life care
Regularly cited
One of the voices most often quoted in the press on palliative & end of life care.
Placed by press coverage on this topic only, not across all topics.
- Vicki GreensmithAcademicDirector of Clinical Services at Martin HouseLeading
- Julie McFaddenClinicianHospice nurse with 16 years of experienceLeading
Dr Sam RoystonSector leaderExecutive Director of Research and Policy, Marie CurieLeading- Dr Tom SteeleClinicianConsultant in Palliative Care, Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustRegularly cited
- Michelle KabiaSector leaderChief Executive of Farleigh HospiceRegularly cited
- Rachel OverfieldSector leaderChief executive, Compton CareRegularly cited
- Dr Emily HarropClinicianMedical DirectorRegularly cited
- Sophie PaskAcademicResearch fellow at Hull York Medical SchoolRegularly cited
Showing the leading voices and those placed around Rachel Overfield · See every voice on the topic →
05 On the record · press
What Rachel Overfield has said
By outlet · bar length shows relative volume
- expressandstar.com
- ehospice.com
Where Rachel Overfield has been quoted
- Four hospices unite to transform end of life care across Staffordshire & Stoke-on-Trent - ehospiceehospice.com · 16 Sept 2026
- £5 million 'hospice in the home' scheme will relieve pressure on hospitalsexpressandstar.com · 29 Aug 2026
- 'This money is nice, but it's not the answer really' - Hospice chiefs react following £3.4m government funding rollout across the Midlandsexpressandstar.com · 27 Jan 2026
How we found the articles that name Rachel Overfield: we searched news for these terms.
- palliative care
- end of life care
- hospice
- terminal illness
Also searched with “palliative care” in each of 8 national papers, and in the Guardian by editor tag, and in trade press by category. Every term for Palliative & end of life care
Verbatim
“This is a significant moment for our four hospices and the communities we serve. What makes it so special is that independent hospices from across the region have come together with a shared goal: improving specialist palliative care for local people.”
“What makes it so special is that independent hospices from across the region have come together with a shared goal, improving specialist palliative care for local people.”
“We're grateful for it and it definitely helps, but on it's own it certainly doesn't help to keep all of our services going.”
Related media coverage
Recent UK press coverage of their topics, not necessarily citing them directly.
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 13 Nov 2026. See the methodology for how this page is built, or email contact@bridgeheadcommunications.com to correct anything on it.