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Professor Steve Hams: no photograph is held, so the clinician plate is shown instead.
Clinician
Professor Steve Hams
Chief nursing and improvement officer at Bristol NHS Foundation Trust
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Quoted in the press, across 3 topics since 1 Jul 2025
02 Quoted on · 3 of 29 topics
Professor Steve Hams: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Clinician
- Role
- Chief nursing and improvement officer at Bristol NHS Foundation Trust
- Press coverage
- Quoted in the press
- Most recently quoted
- 19 Oct 2026
- First quoted
- 1 Jul 2025
04 The signal · where Professor Steve Hams sits on medical ethics & regulation
Leading
One of the voices most often quoted in the press on medical ethics & regulation.
Placed by press coverage on this topic only, not across all topics.
Charlie MasseyRegulatorChief Executive and Registrar, General Medical CouncilLeading- Dr Manjeet ShehmarClinicianMedical Director, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS TrustLeading
Arthur CaplanAcademicProfessor Emeritus and founding head of the Division of Medical Ethics, Department of Population Health, NYU Grossman School of Medicine (NYU Langone Health)Leading- Catherine MasonAcademicProfessor, senior coronerLeading
Professor Alastair DennistonAcademicProfessor of Regulatory Science and Innovation; Chair, National Commission into the Regulation of AI in Healthcare; Executive Director, CERSI-AI, University of BirminghamLeading- Professor Steve HamsClinicianChief nursing and improvement officer at Bristol NHS Foundation TrustLeading
- Adam ChestersClinicianFormer consultant in emergency medicine and pre-hospital emergency medicine, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS TrustLeading
Matthew WyniaAcademicDirector, Center for Bioethics and Humanities; Professor of Medicine and of Public Health, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus (Center for Bioethics and Humanities)Leading
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05 On the record · press
What Professor Steve Hams has said
By outlet · bar length shows relative volume
- nursingtimes.net
- bbc.co.uk
- bbc.com
- bristolpost.co.uk
Where Professor Steve Hams has been quoted
- Aspiring nurses selected for Bristol sponsored degree programme | Nursing Timesnursingtimes.net · 19 Oct 2026
- Three nurses investigated for looking at Oliver McGowan's records | Nursing Timesnursingtimes.net · 25 Sept 2026
- NHS staff investigated over access to dead teenager's medical recordsbbc.co.uk · 24 Sept 2026
- NHS staff investigated over access to dead teenager's medical recordsbbc.com · 24 Sept 2026
- More than 1,000 people faced 12+ hour wait in Bristol A&Es in January | Bristol Livebristolpost.co.uk · 4 Mar 2026
How we found the articles that name Professor Steve Hams: we searched news for these terms, by topic. Terms for 3 topics
Medical ethics & regulation
- medical ethics
- General Medical Council
- GMC
- fitness to practise
- patient consent
- Mental Capacity Act
- conscientious objection
- medical confidentiality
Also searched with “medical ethics” in each of 8 national papers. Every term for Medical ethics & regulation
NHS & care workforce/staffing
- NHS workforce
- staff shortages
- nursing shortage
- nurse recruitment
- care workforce
- care worker pay
- social care workforce
- NHS long term workforce plan
Also searched with “NHS workforce” in each of 8 national papers, and in the Guardian by editor tag, and in trade press by category. Every term for NHS & care workforce/staffing
A&E & ambulance response
- A&E waiting times
- A&E department
- accident and emergency
- ambulance response times
- ambulance handover
- ambulance waiting
- ambulance service
- emergency department
Also searched with “A&E waiting times” in each of 8 national papers, and in the Guardian by editor tag, and in trade press by category. Every term for A&E & ambulance response
Verbatim
“This programme is about much more than providing financial support – it's about creating opportunity, widening participation and investing in the future nursing workforce within our local communities.”
“We are deeply sorry for the distress that this situation has caused Oliver's parents, at what is already a difficult time for their family”
“Every patient and family has the right to expect that their personal information will be treated with care, respect and confidentiality. Any concern that records may have been accessed without a legitimate reason is something we take extremely seriously.”
“Every patient and family has the right to expect that their personal information will be treated with care, respect and confidentiality. Any concern that records may have been accessed without a legitimate reason is something we take extremely seriously.”
“We always try to see patients as soon as possible, but at busier times, unfortunately this can take longer than we would like.”
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