Dr Veline L'Esperance: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Academic
- Role
- GP and senior clinical research fellow at Queen Mary University of London
- Quoted on
- Diabetes, Hospital discharge / bed-blocking
- Tracked press citations
- 2
- Most recently quoted
- 10 Sept 2026
- First quoted
- 27 Aug 2026
“These findings are deeply concerning because they show how a widely used diagnostic tool may be failing communities that are already disproportionately affected by type 2 diabetes.”
What Dr Veline L'Esperance has said
“Patients of African ancestry deserve the same standard of safety as everyone else, and now clinicians have the means to deliver it. What makes this significant is that it moves the conversation about ethnic health inequality in cancer care from words to action.”
senior clinical adviser at the NHS Race and Health Observatory · Hospital discharge / bed-blocking · 27 Aug 2026 · NHS improves genetic testing for minority ethnic cancer patients ↗
Where Dr Veline L'Esperance has been quoted
- Common genetic variant in Black and Asian men leading to late diabetes diagnosispulsetoday.co.uk · 10 Sept 2026
- NHS improves genetic testing for minority ethnic cancer patientstheguardian.com · 27 Aug 2026
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