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Hansard to 11 November 2026 · 31,429 contributions indexed · 1,439 MPs & peers
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Sikha de Souza: no photograph is held, so the clinician plate is shown instead.
Clinician
Sikha de Souza
Public Health Consultant, Public Health Wales
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Oct 2026Nov 2026to date
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press citations on 1 topic since 22 Oct 2026 · last quoted 23 Oct 2026
02 Quoted on · 1 of 29 topics
Sikha de Souza: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Clinician
- Role
- Public Health Consultant, Public Health Wales
- Quoted on
- Rare diseases
- Tracked press citations
- 3
- Most recently quoted
- 23 Oct 2026
- First quoted
- 22 Oct 2026
04 The signal · where Sikha de Souza sits on rare diseases
Ranked 12= of 100 voices quoted in the press on rare diseases, level with 12 others on 3 citations.
Ranked on press citations on this topic only, not across all topics. Joint positions share a rank.
- 1Giles LomaxSector leaderChief Executive Officer, Spinal Muscular Atrophy UK (SMA UK)9
- 2Dr Harrison CarterAcademicDirector of Screening at NHS England8
- 3=
Prof Dame Sue HillRegulatorChief Scientific Officer for England and Senior Responsible Officer for Genomics, NHS England7 - 12=Louise ParkesSector leaderChief executive, Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity3
- 12=Vincent DionAcademicProfessor at the UK Dementia Research Institute at Cardiff University; leader of the research team3
- 12=Sikha de SouzaClinicianPublic Health Consultant, Public Health Wales3
- 12=Lucy CliffeClinicianConsultant Paediatrician, Paediatric Immunology Service, Nottingham Children's Hospital3
- 12=Amie HillerAcademicProfessor of neurology at OHSU and senior author of the study3
Showing the leaders and the ranks around 12=, of 100 voices · See every voice on the topic →
05 On the record · press
What Sikha de Souza has said
By outlet · linked articles
- campaignseries.co.uk1
- southwalesargus.co.uk1
- walesonline.co.uk1
Where Sikha de Souza has been quoted
- 01Wales to screen newborns for more rare conditions with new £1.21m labcampaignseries.co.uk · 23 Oct 2026
- 02Wales to screen newborns for more rare conditions with new £1.21m labsouthwalesargus.co.uk · 23 Oct 2026
- 03Change being introduced for every newborn baby in Waleswalesonline.co.uk · 22 Oct 2026
Verbatim
“By detecting serious health conditions shortly after birth, it allows early treatment that can improve outcomes and prevent lifelong complications.”
“By detecting serious health conditions shortly after birth, it allows early treatment that can improve outcomes and prevent lifelong complications.”
“Newborn blood spot screening helps to give babies the best start in life. By detecting serious health conditions shortly after birth it allows early treatment that can improve outcomes and prevent lifelong complications.”
Related media coverage
Recent UK press coverage of their topics, not necessarily citing them directly.
- Coventry tot's heartbreaking health battle after 'extremely rare' diagnosiscoventrytelegraph.net
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- 'Immoral lottery' - Mum's plea after losing daughter to rare diseasethewestmorlandgazette.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 12 Nov 2026. See the methodology for how this page is built, or email contact@bridgeheadcommunications.com to correct anything on it.