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Hansard to 9 November 2026 · 31,243 contributions indexed · 1,439 MPs & peers
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Simon Thackeray: no photograph is held, so the academic plate is shown instead.
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Simon Thackeray
Dental practice owner
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press citations on 1 topic since 15 Dec 2025 · last quoted 9 Mar 2026
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Simon Thackeray: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Academic
- Role
- Dental practice owner
- Quoted on
- Dentistry access
- Tracked press citations
- 2
- Most recently quoted
- 9 Mar 2026
- First quoted
- 15 Dec 2025
04 The signal · where Simon Thackeray sits on dentistry access
Ranked 15= of 100 voices quoted in the press on dentistry access, level with 20 others on 2 citations.
Ranked on press citations on this topic only, not across all topics. Joint positions share a rank.
- 1
Eddie CrouchUnionChair of the Principal Executive Committee (BDA Chair), British Dental Association31 - 2
Shiv PabaryClinicianChair, General Dental Practice Committee, British Dental Association19 - 3
Jason WongRegulatorChief Dental Officer for England, NHS England (joint appointment with the Department of Health and Social Care, based in NHS England)14 - 15=Professor Neal JusterAcademicVice Chancellor of the University of Lincoln2
- 15=Sarah CardellSector leaderChief Executive of the Competition and Markets Authority2
- 15=Simon ThackerayAcademicDental practice owner2
- 15=
Dr Nigel CarterSector leaderchief executive of the Oral Health Foundation2 - 15=Jonathan HigmanRegulatorChief Executive Officer (joint chief executive of the BSW, Dorset and Somerset ICB cluster), NHS Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire ICB, NHS Dorset ICB and NHS Somerset ICB (ICB cluster)2
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05 On the record · press
What Simon Thackeray has said
By outlet · linked articles
- dentistry.co.uk2
Where Simon Thackeray has been quoted
- 01New NHS dental contract – will it help solve the workforce issue?dentistry.co.uk · 9 Mar 2026
- 02Proposed dentistry voucher scheme slammed by expertsdentistry.co.uk · 15 Dec 2025
Verbatim
“There aren't enough dentists. It's multifactorial, but I probably now see a third of the number of patients that I saw when I was NHS versus private.”
“The proposal for the CMA to investigate private dentistry fees is deeply misguided. Private dentistry has not caused the access crisis, inflationary pressure or workforce shortages. The root cause is decades of political neglect of NHS dentistry.”
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