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Case Study

Lucy Elkins
Could weight-loss jabs like Mounjaro helps victims of the curse of Long Covid?
Daily Mail

Matthew Hill
‘Death Row’
BBC Points West and Politics West

Alison Holt, Adam Eley
I’ve stopped life-saving medication says man exhausted by fight for NHS care
BBC News website

Will Stoddart
Birth Trauma
Daily Mail Good Health

Mark Thompson, Laura Bundock, Katie Child, Dean Massey, Chris Gordon, Anthony Whiley, Mostyn Pryce, Martin Smith
The Gift: A hand transplant journey risking life and limb
Sky News

The Dr David Delvin Award for Sex and Sexual Health Journalism – supported by Christine Webber

James Gallagher, Ilan Goodman, Gerry Holt
Why are men getting penis fillers?
BBC Radio 4/BBC Sounds

Eleanor Hayward
FGM victims’ fury as academics compare practice to cosmetic surgery
The Times

Kate White, Laura Foster, Martin Smith
About the Girls: The Puberty Puzzle
BBC Radio 4

Clare Wilson
This condition affects one-third of women – it’s finally getting effective treatment
The i Paper

Editor – supported by ABPI

Mun Keat Looi
Trump’s second term and the weaponisation of health policy: a 2025 timeline
The BMJ
How politics destroyed Colombia’s model healthcare system
The BMJ
How attacking healthcare has become a strategy of war
The BMJ

Victoria Macdonald
How dangerous delays left thousands waiting more than 6 hours in ambulances
Channel 4 News
Exclusive: Regulators fail to protect NHS staff exposed to cancer causing chemical dubbed ‘the new asbestos’
Channel 4 News
Oxford University Hospitals: Couple called scandal-hit NHS trust 44 times for scan
Channel 4 News

Jennifer Richardson
Junk food “avoids advertising regulation” with top level UK sports sponsorship
bmj.com
Banking baby teeth: companies may be misleading parents with “outrageous claims”
bmj.com
Why doctors are uniquely vulnerable to domestic abuse
bmj.com

Feature (broadcast) – supported by Blue Lozenge

Sharon Barbour, Rhoda Buchanan, Gail Champion, Joel Mapp, Mary O’Reilly
Hidden Scars: An NHS Scandal
BBC News

Sarah Corker, Martha Elwell, Lottie Kilraine, Lotti Norman
Toxic Legacy – Our Hidden Drug Scandal
The Tonight Programme, ITV 1

Dominic Hughes, Richard McIilroy, Jay Unger
NHS: Painful Decisions
BBC Radio 4

Feature (general audience)

Hannah Barnes
Britain’s Next Maternity Scandal
The New Statesman

Tommy Greene
‘A doctor takes on the NHS – and its Liverpool law firm’
The Liverpool Post

Andrew Gregory
Exclusive: How the ‘confident authority’ of Google AI Overviews is putting public health at risk
The Guardian

James Tapper
The digital bridge that could help the paralysed walk again
The Observer

Rebecca Thomas, Laura Bundock, Rachel Lucas, Mark Thompson
Care watchdog slammed for ‘failing’ to take action at scandal-hit hospital before teen’s unlawful death
The Independent & Sky News

Marta Zaraska
Poison in the water: the town with the world’s worst case of forever chemicals contamination
The Guardian

Feature (specialist audience)

Claire Ainsworth
Body, heal thyself
New Scientist

Marianne Guenot
“It’s not about us anymore”: after the Le Scouarnec case
The Lancet

Jennifer Richardson, Sophie Borland, Brian Kennedy, Will Stahl-Timmins
Junk food “avoids advertising regulation” with top level UK sports sponsorship
bmj.com

Joanna Robertson
Could dedicated pharmacists help improve neonatal care’s medicines safety problem?
The Pharmaceutical Journal

Adele Waters
“Medical misogyny and ‘harrowing’ experiences: what are doctors doing to improve outpatient gynaecological procedures?
The BMJ

Freelance – supported by Opella

Paul Adepoju

Battle of the mosquitoes
Nature Medicine
The oxygen crisis didn’t end with COVID-19 — it evolved
Devex
Conflict disrupts global supply chains for cancer medicines
The Lancet Oncology

Robert Galloway
I’ve spent my career helping others. Now I’m asking for YOUR help for my joyful little girl and thousands like her with rare genetic conditions
Daily Mail Health Section/Mail Online
The form you MUST ask your doctor about if you want to die at home surrounded by your loved ones
Daily Mail Health Section/Mail Online
Yes, we doctors DO make mistakes… but these seven simple rules will help protect you
Daily Mail Health Section/Mail Online

Will Stoddart
Why are men with aggressive prostate cancer being denied lifesaving drug that inpatients CAN get in Scotland and Wales?
Daily Mail Good Health
Our blueprint for a LONGER LIFE
Daily Mail Good Health
How noise like low hum of a fridge could treat dementia
Daily Mail Good Health

Rosie Taylor
I Just Want to Feel Like Me Again
The Guardian
Rethinking 999
The Sunday Times Magazine
Living in the countryside can harm your health
The Telegraph

Helen Thomson
Improve Your Immunity
New Scientist
The Sweet Spot of Stress
New Scientist
The treaty that could end the plastic deluge
The Observer

The Gordon McVie Award for Cancer Reporting – Supported by Claudia McVie

Paul Adepoju
Conflict disrupts global supply chains for cancer medicines
The Lancet Oncology

Claire Ainsworth
Rehabilitating cancer
New Scientist

Sharon Barbour
Proton Beam trial for Asbestos Cancer
BBC News

Clare Wilson
The new vaccines and treatments that could stop cancer in its tracks
The i Paper

Carissa Wong
The chilling discovery that nerve cells help cancers grow and spread
New Scientist

Health and Climate Change

James Gallagher, Tom Bonnett
I inhaled traffic fumes to find out where air pollution goes in my body
BBC News/BBC Radio 4/BBC Sounds

Sarah Neville
How a warmer world is making pregnancy riskier
Financial Times

Jennifer Richardson, Madeline Hutcheson
Carbon capture: the “distracting, dangerous scam” governments are relying on to reach net zero
bmj.com

Mental Health Story

Annabelle Collins
Exclusive: Deaths linked to new crisis care policy
Health Service Journal

Liam Drew
Mind Over Clutter
BBC Science Focus

Catherine Jones, Pete Jones, Isabelle Raikes
Women’s Suicide: An Overlooked Crisis
5 News

Tom Moberly
Donald Trump’s mental health: are health professionals’ media speculations ethical or dangerous?
The BMJ

David Robson
The AI will see you now
New Scientist

Adele Waters
Why doctors are uniquely vulnerable to domestic abuse
The BMJ

Newcomer – supported by Weber Shandwick

Robbie Boyd
Regulators fail to protect NHS staff exposed to cancer causing chemical
Channel 4 News

Maeve Cullinan
‘Cult’ of tourniquets causing thousands of unnecessary amputations and deaths in Ukraine, say surgeons
The Daily Telegraph

Emily Warner
Revealed: How ICBs are taking their own approaches to Mounjaro prescribing
The Pharmacist

News Story (broadcast) – supported by Virgo

Rebecca Barry, Imogen Barrer, Phil Sime, Judith Weikala
Corridor Care Crisis
ITV News

Sarah Corker, Lottie Kilraine
DES – calls for public inquiry into hidden drug scandal
ITV National News

Matthew Hill, Dickon Hooper
Maternity
BBC Points West and Spotlight

News Story (general audience) – supported by FleishmanHillard

Martin Bagot
Crisis of Our Age
Daily Mirror

Nicola Davis and Sarah Marsh
Medicines watchdog to investigate UK peptide clinics over health claims
The Guardian

Hannah Devlin
UK IVF couples use legal loophole to rank embryos based on potential IQ, height and health
The Guardian

Shaun Lintern
Stop promoting natural birth ideology, midwife courses told
The Sunday Times

Rebecca Thomas
Rapist nurse allowed to work with vulnerable hospital patients for a year – despite police warning he was a suspect
The Independent

News Story (specialist audience) – supported by Medicines UK

Anna Colivicchi
How GPs are being told to limit NHS Health Checks
Pulse

Rebecca Coombes
Trust’s £40.5m overseas doctors training scheme is axed after audit raises red flags
The BMJ

Elisabeth Mahase
Mounjaro: Less than half of England has NHS access to jab months after roll-out, distressing patients and GPs
The BMJ

Emily Townsend and Alison Moore
Revealed: Urgent review ordered after deaths in fragile maternity services
Health Service Journal

Adele Waters
“Dangerously unsafe”: Doctor tribunal service’s handling of sexual misconduct cases condemned by victims and researcher
The BMJ

Podcast

James Gallagher, Ilan Goodman, Minnie Harrop, Gerry Holt
Inside Health: Can we reverse rising drug deaths?
BBC Sounds/BBC Radio 4

Natasha Loder, Jason Hosken, Alok Jha, Nico Raufast
Custom cures: tailor-made drugs for rare diseases
The Economist (Babbage Podcast)

Tammy Lovell, Matt Hill, Jordan Sollof
The Forgotten Patients: Is the digital NHS leaving people behind?
Digital Health Unplugged podcast

Noel Titheradge, Lucy Burns, Matt Willis
Impulsive
Radio 4/BBC Sounds

Science Explained – supported by Roche

Claire Ainsworth
The radical rethink on sex chromosomes and disease
Nature

Hannah Barnes
Will the new puberty blocker trial put children at risk?
The New Statesman (online)

Lucy Elkins
Should men be able to jump the queue for fat jabs?
Daily Mail

Linda Geddes
The Big Fat Truth
New Scientist

Clare Wilson
Think you know about good and bad cholesterol? Read this first
The i Paper