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Hansard to 11 November 2026 · 31,429 contributions indexed · 1,439 MPs & peers
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Richard Van Mellaerts: no photograph is held, so the clinician plate is shown instead.
Clinician
Richard Van Mellaerts
Dr, Surrey GP
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press citations on 1 topic since 8 Jun 2026 · last quoted 21 Oct 2026
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Richard Van Mellaerts: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Clinician
- Role
- Dr, Surrey GP
- Quoted on
- GP access
- Tracked press citations
- 4
- Most recently quoted
- 21 Oct 2026
- First quoted
- 8 Jun 2026
04 The signal · where Richard Van Mellaerts sits on gp access
Ranked 39= of 100 voices quoted in the press on gp access, level with 9 others on 4 citations.
Ranked on press citations on this topic only, not across all topics. Joint positions share a rank.
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Dr Katie BramallUnionImmediate past chair, BMA GP Committee for England; Chair, BMA GP Committee UK, British Medical Association82 - 2
Professor Victoria Tzortziou BrownClinicianChair of Council, Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP)63 - 3
Dr Chris ProvanClinicianChair, RCGP Scotland (three-year term began November 2023; described by GPonline in late October 2026 as the outgoing chair, with Dr Chris Williams named as his successor), Royal College of General Practitioners Scotland41 - 39=Jess HarveyClinicianShropshire GP, speaking on behalf of the Rebuild General Practice campaign4
- 39=Dr Gaurav GuptaSector leaderKent LMC chair4
- 39=Richard Van MellaertsClinicianDr, Surrey GP4
- 39=Professor Bola OwolabiClinicianChief Inspector of Primary Care and Community Services at CQC, former Director of the National Healthcare Inequalities Improvement Programme at NHS England, Honorary Professor at Birmingham University's Institute of Applied Health Research, Vice President of the Royal Society of Public Health, and practising GP4
- 39=Alex ArmitageClinicianNHS doctor and South Mainland councillor (Dr)4
Showing the leaders and the ranks around 39=, of 100 voices · See every voice on the topic →
05 On the record · press
What Richard Van Mellaerts has said
By outlet · linked articles
- gponline.com4
Where Richard Van Mellaerts has been quoted
- 01Could the NHS level up GP and consultant pay? | GPonlinegponline.com · 21 Oct 2026
- 02Huge acceleration in list cleaning cuts 200,000 patients in a single month | GPonlinegponline.com · 13 Aug 2026
- 03'Aggressive' list-cleaning drive strips 350,000 patients from GP practices | GPonlinegponline.com · 8 Jun 2026
- 04'We're overwhelmed' - practices swamped by scale of patient removals | GPonlinegponline.com · 8 Jun 2026
Verbatim
“A mechanism to solve what is the key problem, which is that salaried GPs aren't being paid enough, at least not uniformly across the country.”
“It's death by a thousand cuts”
“It seems there is aggressive list cleaning going on”
“What we can't then do, is have a system where if patients are not using the system on a regular basis, they then drop out - because it ceases to be economic for practices at that point.”
Related media coverage
Recent UK press coverage of their topics, not necessarily citing them directly.
- GP access changes make little difference for most Hampshire patients, survey findsbasingstokegazette.co.uk
- A&G and referrals to remain 'separate options' within single point of access, GPs told - Pulse Todaypulsetoday.co.uk
- BMA accepts Northern Ireland GP contract offer putting an end to collective action - Pulse Todaypulsetoday.co.uk
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 11 Nov 2026. See the methodology for how this page is built, or email contact@bridgeheadcommunications.com to correct anything on it.