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Rakesh Kucheria: no photograph is held, so the clinician plate is shown instead.
Clinician
Rakesh Kucheria
Orthopaedic surgeon
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Quoted in the press, across 1 topic since 26 May 2026
02 Quoted on · 1 of 29 topics
Rakesh Kucheria: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Clinician
- Role
- Orthopaedic surgeon
- Quoted on
- NHS waiting lists
- Press coverage
- Quoted in the press
- Most recently quoted
- 26 May 2026
04 On the record · press
What Rakesh Kucheria has said
By outlet · bar length shows relative volume
- bbc.co.uk
Where Rakesh Kucheria has been quoted
- What a 'high-efficiency week' in the NHS looks likebbc.co.uk · 26 May 2026
How we found the articles that name Rakesh Kucheria: we searched news for these terms.
- NHS waiting list
- waiting list
- elective waiting times
- elective recovery
- elective backlog
- waiting list backlog
- referral to treatment
- RTT
Also searched with “NHS waiting list” in each of 8 national papers, and in the Guardian by editor tag. Every term for NHS waiting lists
Verbatim
“What we are doing is pushing the boundaries. What we want to do is 10 to 15% more procedures, use every bit of the building, which means not just theatres, outpatient procedure rooms, X-ray, MRI scans to show how much we can do.”
Related media coverage
Recent UK press coverage of their topics, not necessarily citing them directly.
- Paramedics warn of 'increase in wait times' as NHS disruption hitsThe Wiltshire Gazette and Herald
- Appointment delays 'a risk' for Derby and Burton hospital patientsbbc.com
- Spinal surgery delay for teen with 'stabbing pain'bbc.com
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.