03 Profile
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Hansard to 12 November 2026 · 31,484 contributions indexed · 1,439 MPs & peers
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Shona McIlrae: no photograph is held, so the clinician plate is shown instead.
Clinician
Shona McIlrae
NHS consultant psychiatrist
July 2026Aug 2026Sept 2026Oct 2026Nov 2026to date
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Quoted in the press, across 1 topic since 10 Jul 2026
02 Quoted on · 1 of 29 topics
Shona McIlrae: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Clinician
- Role
- NHS consultant psychiatrist
- Quoted on
- Mental health
- Press coverage
- Quoted in the press
- Most recently quoted
- 16 Jul 2026
- First quoted
- 10 Jul 2026
04 The signal · where Shona McIlrae sits on mental health
Regularly cited
One of the voices most often quoted in the press on mental health.
Placed by press coverage on this topic only, not across all topics.
Professor Peter FonagyAcademicProfessor of Contemporary Psychoanalysis and Developmental Science; Head of the Division of Psychology and Language Sciences, University College London (UCL)Leading
Dr Sarah HughesSector leaderChief Executive, Mind (The National Association for Mental Health)Leading- Dr Sam JonesClinicianOfficer for Mental Health, Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH)Leading
- Susan AyersAcademicProfessor of maternal and child health, City St George'sRegularly cited
- Dr Megan ForemanClinicianGP and lead author of the paperRegularly cited
- Shona McIlraeClinicianNHS consultant psychiatristRegularly cited
- Busayo AjewoleClinicianmental health nurse, clinical team leader at HighburyRegularly cited
- Anders Fink-JensenAcademicProfessor, principal investigator of the Danish studyRegularly cited
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05 On the record · press
What Shona McIlrae has said
By outlet · bar length shows relative volume
- yorkpress.co.uk
- gazetteherald.co.uk
Where Shona McIlrae has been quoted
- 'We choose forgiveness' - family speaks after man's death at York jewellery storeyorkpress.co.uk · 16 Jul 2026
- Man's death at York jewellers 'could have been avoided', family saysgazetteherald.co.uk · 16 Jul 2026
- Man was discharged from psychiatric hospital days before death at York jewellery shopyorkpress.co.uk · 10 Jul 2026
How we found the articles that name Shona McIlrae: we searched news for these terms.
- mental health
- mental health services
- CAMHS
- psychiatric
- suicide prevention
- mental health crisis
- talking therapies
- IAPT
Also searched with “mental health” in each of 8 national papers, and in the Guardian by editor tag. Every term for Mental health
Verbatim
“robust assessment”
“robust assessment”
“I think that assessment, at that time, was made on how Sam presented and how we knew him, and using the principles of the Mental Health Act.”
Related media coverage
Recent UK press coverage of their topics, not necessarily citing them directly.
- I am more than my pain: Thinking about mental health as a trans Autistic personCentre for Mental Health
- Social care: Burnham’s National Care Service has no offer yet for working-age adultsLearning Disability Today
- More than one in three young people report mental health challenges in surveyNorthampton Chronicle and Echo
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 13 Nov 2026. See the methodology for how this page is built, or email contact@bridgeheadcommunications.com to correct anything on it.