03 Profile
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Hansard to 11 November 2026 · 31,429 contributions indexed · 1,439 MPs & peers
All voices01 Voice · Sector leader · Children's health
Yasmin Sheikh: no photograph is held, so the sector leader plate is shown instead.
Sector leader
Yasmin Sheikh
Head of policy and public affairs, Anthony Nolan
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Oct 2026Nov 2026to date
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press citations on 2 topics since 13 Oct 2026 · last quoted 9 Nov 2026
02 Quoted on · 2 of 29 topics
Yasmin Sheikh: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Sector leader
- Role
- Head of policy and public affairs, Anthony Nolan
- Quoted on
- Children's health, Rare diseases
- Tracked press citations
- 3
- Most recently quoted
- 9 Nov 2026
- First quoted
- 13 Oct 2026
04 The signal · where Yasmin Sheikh sits on children's health
Ranked 33= of 100 voices quoted in the press on children's health, level with 42 others on 2 citations.
Ranked on press citations on this topic only, not across all topics. Joint positions share a rank.
- Rare diseases58= of 100
- 1
Dr Helen StewartClinicianOfficer for Health Improvement (and Consultant in Paediatric Emergency Medicine, Sheffield Children's Hospital), Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH)17 - 2=
Lynn WoolseyUnionChief Nursing Officer, Royal College of Nursing9 - 2=Dr Mike McKeanClinicianVice-president for policy of the RCPCH9
- 33=Pascale AlloteyAcademicDirector of WHO's Department of Sexual, Reproductive, Maternal, Child, Adolescent Health and Ageing, and UN Special Programme in Human Reproduction (HRP)2
- 33=Simon WatsonClinicianMedical director, Healthcare Improvement Scotland2
- 33=Yasmin SheikhSector leaderHead of policy and public affairs, Anthony Nolan2
- 33=Jessica SemedoClinicianTransition nurse specialist, Roald Dahl; member of the Association of British Paediatric Nurses2
- 33=
Jonathan HaidtAcademicThomas Cooley Professor of Ethical Leadership, NYU Stern School of Business2
Showing the leaders and the ranks around 33=, of 100 voices · See every voice on the topic →
05 On the record · press
What Yasmin Sheikh has said
By outlet · linked articles
- lbc.co.uk2
- mirror.co.uk1
Where Yasmin Sheikh has been quoted
- 01One-off drug targeting stiff person syndrome offers hope for people with same disorder as Celine Dionlbc.co.uk · 9 Nov 2026
- 02Families with sick children forced to spend thousands on travel to appointments, experts say | LBClbc.co.uk · 13 Oct 2026
- 03Families of poorly kids should be helped with hospital travel, charity warnsmirror.co.uk · 13 Oct 2026
Verbatim
“CAR-T cell therapy can be life-changing.”
“The travel fund promised in the National Cancer Plan is a welcome step forward, but it excludes people receiving potentially lifesaving treatments like stem cell transplants, simply because they don't have cancer.”
“The travel fund promised in the National Cancer Plan is a welcome step forward, but it excludes people receiving potentially lifesaving treatments like stem cell transplants, simply because they don't have cancer.”
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