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Hansard to 12 November 2026 · 31,484 contributions indexed · 1,439 MPs & peers
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Simon Higginson: no photograph is held, so the sector leader plate is shown instead.
Sector leader
Simon Higginson
chief executive of the Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Sept 2026Oct 2026Nov 2026to date
1
Quoted in the press, across 1 topic since 24 Sept 2026
02 Quoted on · 1 of 29 topics
Simon Higginson: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Sector leader
- Role
- chief executive of the Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Quoted on
- Maternity & neonatal
- Press coverage
- Quoted in the press
- Most recently quoted
- 24 Sept 2026
04 On the record · press
What Simon Higginson has said
By outlet · bar length shows relative volume
- bbc.com
Where Simon Higginson has been quoted
- Meeting on maternity services suspension in North Devonbbc.com · 24 Sept 2026
How we found the articles that name Simon Higginson: we searched news for these terms.
- maternity
- maternity services
- maternity care
- neonatal
- stillbirth
- maternal mortality
- midwifery
- midwife
Also searched with “maternity” in each of 8 national papers, and in the Guardian by editor tag, and in trade press by category. Every term for Maternity & neonatal
Verbatim
“Two locum (consultants) have recently left which is why they couldn't reopen on the 29th (September), adding that locum staff could leave giving just one week's notice.”
Related media coverage
Recent UK press coverage of their topics, not necessarily citing them directly.
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