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Hansard to 11 November 2026 · 31,429 contributions indexed · 1,439 MPs & peers
All voices01 Voice · Clinician · Respiratory (asthma/COPD)
Richard Hewitt: no photograph is held, so the clinician plate is shown instead.
Clinician
Richard Hewitt
Consultant Respiratory Physician, South Eastern Trust
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press citations on 1 topic since 7 Jul 2026 · last quoted 12 Jul 2026
02 Quoted on · 1 of 29 topics
Richard Hewitt: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Clinician
- Role
- Consultant Respiratory Physician, South Eastern Trust
- Quoted on
- Respiratory (asthma/COPD)
- Tracked press citations
- 2
- Most recently quoted
- 12 Jul 2026
- First quoted
- 7 Jul 2026
04 The signal · where Richard Hewitt sits on respiratory (asthma/copd)
Ranked 63= of 100 voices quoted in the press on respiratory (asthma/copd), level with 37 others on 2 citations.
Ranked on press citations on this topic only, not across all topics. Joint positions share a rank.
- 1
Dr Andy WhittamoreClinicianClinical Lead (and practising GP), Asthma + Lung UK14 - 2=Dr Amina Al-YassinClinicianClinical Lead for Children and Young People's Services at Brent Integrated Care Partnership10
- 2=Are HolmAcademicHead of the Department of Respiratory Medicine at Oslo University Hospital Rikshospitalet10
- 63=Louise TippingClinicianNHS respiratory nurse at Birmingham Children's Hospital2
- 63=Professor Dave SinghAcademicPulmonologist and Clinical Pharmacologist, University of Manchester and Medicines Evaluation Unit, UK2
- 63=Richard HewittClinicianConsultant Respiratory Physician, South Eastern Trust2
- 63=Dr Katrina CathieClinicianConsultant Paediatrician at Southampton Children's Hospital, Associate Director for Paediatrics at the NIHR Southampton Clinical Research Facility, and trial Co-lead2
- 63=Chengfeng LiAcademicECU researcher2
Showing the leaders and the ranks around 63=, of 100 voices · See every voice on the topic →
05 On the record · press
What Richard Hewitt has said
By outlet · linked articles
- belfastlive.co.uk1
- farminglife.com1
Where Richard Hewitt has been quoted
- 01'This new COPD treatment could make a real difference to patients like me'belfastlive.co.uk · 12 Jul 2026
- 02Ulster Hospital leads the way bringing hope for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)farminglife.com · 7 Jul 2026
Verbatim
“This treatment is designed to reduce inflammation in the lungs and by reducing inflammation, it reduces the risk of a patient requiring hospital treatment.”
“This treatment is designed to reduce inflammation in the lungs and by reducing inflammation, reduces the risk of a patient requiring hospital treatment. Our hope is that patients who have a good response to this treatment will need less admission to hospital, antibiotics and steroids.”
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