03 Profile
Vital Signsby Bridgehead
Hansard to 11 November 2026 · 31,429 contributions indexed · 1,439 MPs & peers
All voices01 Voice · Clinician · Cancer
Zakir Shariff: no photograph is held, so the clinician plate is shown instead.
Clinician
Zakir Shariff
Consultant plastic surgeon
2
0
0
0
0
1
0
May 2026JuneJulyAugSeptOctNovto date
3
press citations on 1 topic since 1 May 2026 · last quoted 5 Oct 2026
02 Quoted on · 1 of 29 topics
Zakir Shariff: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Clinician
- Role
- Consultant plastic surgeon
- Quoted on
- Cancer
- Tracked press citations
- 3
- Most recently quoted
- 5 Oct 2026
- First quoted
- 1 May 2026
04 The signal · where Zakir Shariff sits on cancer
Ranked 36= of 100 voices quoted in the press on cancer, level with 27 others on 3 citations.
Ranked on press citations on this topic only, not across all topics. Joint positions share a rank.
- 1
Prof Peter JohnsonClinicianNational Clinical Director for Cancer, NHS England23 - 2
Professor Victoria Tzortziou BrownClinicianChair of Council, Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP)17 - 3=Dr Claire FullerClinicianNational Medical Director, NHS England15
- 36=Lorenzo SpaggiariAcademicDirector of thoracic surgery at the European Institute of Oncology, Milan3
- 36=Sian Robinson-BrownSector leaderMacmillan's Support Line3
- 36=Zakir ShariffClinicianConsultant plastic surgeon3
- 36=Dr Anne RiggClinicianconsultant medical oncologist and NHS England's national speciality adviser for chemotherapy3
- 36=
Professor Sam BehjatiAcademicProfessor of Paediatrics; Head of the Department of Paediatrics; Director of the Cambridge Children's Research Institute, University of Cambridge (Department of Paediatrics)3
Showing the leaders and the ranks around 36=, of 100 voices · See every voice on the topic →
05 On the record · press
What Zakir Shariff has said
By outlet · linked articles
- bbc.com1
- thetelegraphandargus.co.uk1
- ukauthority.com1
Where Zakir Shariff has been quoted
- 01Bradford skin cancer waiting times cut by new AI technologybbc.com · 5 Oct 2026
- 02Bradford adopts AI skin cancer detection | UKAuthorityukauthority.com · 11 May 2026
- 03AI system launched for skin cancer diagnosisthetelegraphandargus.co.uk · 1 May 2026
Verbatim
“This has had a big impact on all the bottlenecks - right from waiting times for patients to unnecessary investigations being done and to being seen by a clinician”
“Combining this cutting-edge AI will give us the capacity to pick up potentially serious skin lesions quicker and speedier than current processes.”
“Combining this cutting-edge AI will give us the capacity to pick up potentially serious skin lesions quicker and speedier than current processes.”
Related media coverage
Recent UK press coverage of their topics, not necessarily citing them directly.
- I'm a Top Oncologist: 5 Women's Health Symptoms I'd Never Ignoremarieclaire.co.uk
- Somerset residents urged to look out for mouth cancer symptomsburnhamandhighbridgeweeklynews.co.uk
- Two-minute mouth checks could help save lives in Somersetchardandilminsternews.co.uk
Doctors, nurses, allied health professionals and other registered clinicians quoted in a clinical capacity. Citations are counted by an automated scan of UK press coverage and may be incomplete. Roles, biographies and contact details are researched and human-reviewed before they appear here; anything not yet reviewed is simply absent rather than shown unverified. This profile was last updated on 12 Nov 2026. See the methodology for how this page is built, or email contact@bridgeheadcommunications.com to correct anything on it.