03 Profile
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Hansard to 9 November 2026 · 31,243 contributions indexed · 1,439 MPs & peers
All voices01 Voice · Clinician · Palliative & end of life care
Stephen Kirkham: no photograph is held, so the clinician plate is shown instead.
Clinician
Stephen Kirkham
consultant physician
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Oct 2026Nov 2026to date
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press citation on 1 topic since 4 Oct 2026 · last quoted 4 Oct 2026
02 Quoted on · 1 of 29 topics
Stephen Kirkham: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Clinician
- Role
- consultant physician
- Quoted on
- Palliative & end of life care
- Tracked press citations
- 1
- Most recently quoted
- 4 Oct 2026
04 The signal · where Stephen Kirkham sits on palliative & end of life care
Ranked 29= of 100 voices quoted in the press on palliative & end of life care, level with 71 others on 1 citation.
Ranked on press citations on this topic only, not across all topics. Joint positions share a rank.
- 1
Toby PorterSector leaderChief Executive, Hospice UK8 - 2=
Dr Michelle HillsClinicianChief Medical Officer and Consultant in Paediatric Palliative Medicine, Martin House Children's Hospice5 - 2=
Professor Fliss MurtaghAcademicProfessor of Palliative Care, Hull York Medical School; Director, Wolfson Palliative Care Research Centre, Hull York Medical School, University of Hull (Wolfson Palliative Care Research Centre)5 - 29=Dr Jim ClearySector leaderBoard Chair, WHPCA1
- 29=Sarah MimmackAcademicdirector of care at Longfield Hospice1
- 29=Stephen KirkhamClinicianconsultant physician1
- 29=Rick ArmstrongClinicianBank registered nurse1
- 29=AnMarie ChannerAcademicRN, Head of Clinical Services for Community Specialist Palliative Care, Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust1
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05 On the record · press
What Stephen Kirkham has said
By outlet · linked articles
- theguardian.com1
Where Stephen Kirkham has been quoted
- 01Good palliative care and assisted dying can go hand in hand | Letterstheguardian.com · 4 Oct 2026
Verbatim
“I was a consultant physician at one of these units for 20 years, and I am told that it now costs around £5m annually to provide a comprehensive specialist palliative care service to a population of 250,000, delivered across all settings, including hospital wards.”
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