03 Profile
Vital Signsby Bridgehead
Hansard to 11 November 2026 · 31,429 contributions indexed · 1,439 MPs & peers
All voices01 Voice · Clinician · Palliative & end of life care
Richard Soulsby: no photograph is held, so the clinician plate is shown instead.
Clinician
Richard Soulsby
Chief executive, Hospice of the Good Shepherd (Dr)
2
Nov 2026to date
2
press citations on 1 topic since 3 Nov 2026 · last quoted 10 Nov 2026
02 Quoted on · 1 of 29 topics
Richard Soulsby: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Clinician
- Role
- Chief executive, Hospice of the Good Shepherd (Dr)
- Quoted on
- Palliative & end of life care
- Tracked press citations
- 2
- Most recently quoted
- 10 Nov 2026
- First quoted
- 3 Nov 2026
04 The signal · where Richard Soulsby sits on palliative & end of life care
Ranked 20= of 100 voices quoted in the press on palliative & end of life care, level with 22 others on 2 citations.
Ranked on press citations on this topic only, not across all topics. Joint positions share a rank.
- 1
Toby PorterSector leaderChief Executive, Hospice UK9 - 2=
Professor Fliss MurtaghAcademicProfessor of Palliative Care, Hull York Medical School; Director, Wolfson Palliative Care Research Centre, Hull York Medical School, University of Hull (Wolfson Palliative Care Research Centre)7 - 2=
Dr Sam RoystonSector leaderExecutive Director of Research and Policy, Marie Curie7 - 20=Gill Hodgson-ReillyRegulatorDeputy Director of Operations (North East), Care Quality Commission (CQC)2
- 20=Dr Laura ChapmanClinicianMedical Director for Marie Curie North West England2
- 20=Richard SoulsbyClinicianChief executive, Hospice of the Good Shepherd (Dr)2
- 20=Natalie MetcalfeClinicianDr, GP at Holderness Health2
- 20=Paula HeneghanSector leaderAssociate director of services at Marie Curie Northern Ireland2
Showing the leaders and the ranks around 20=, of 100 voices · See every voice on the topic →
05 On the record · press
What Richard Soulsby has said
By outlet · linked articles
- cheshire-live.co.uk1
- chesterstandard.co.uk1
Where Richard Soulsby has been quoted
- 01Why the role of the Hospice of the Good Shepherd is often misunderstoodcheshire-live.co.uk · 10 Nov 2026
- 02Hospice warns of funding pressures as just 17 per cent comes from statutory sourceschesterstandard.co.uk · 3 Nov 2026
Verbatim
“There's a big misconception that hospices are part of the NHS, but they're not, they are independent charities that have to generate a significant charitable income to ensure survival.”
“There's a big misconception that hospices are part of the NHS, but they're not, they are independent charities that have to generate a significant charitable income to ensure survival.”
Related media coverage
Recent UK press coverage of their topics, not necessarily citing them directly.
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 12 Nov 2026. See the methodology for how this page is built, or email contact@bridgeheadcommunications.com to correct anything on it.