Norwich Union Healthcare announced today the journalists that have been shortlisted for a prize in the prestigious Medical Journalism Awards organised jointly with the Medical Journalists' Association.
Norwich Union Healthcare announced today the journalists that have been shortlisted for a prize in the prestigious Medical Journalism Awards organised jointly with the Medical Journalists' Association.
This is the fourteenth year that Norwich Union Healthcare has supported the Medical Journalists' Association and it has proved another popular year with a high number of quality entries.
The winners will be announced at The Medical Journalism Awards ceremony taking place at The Undercroft, Banqueting House, London on Monday 21 November 2005 at 6.30pm.
Each of the category winners will receive a first prize of Ł1,000 and a framed certificate, and the Best Newcomer winners in the General Medical and Financing Healthcare categories will each receive Ł750 and a framed certificate.
GENERAL MEDICAL
Consumer Feature
Peter Aldhous, Nature
Simon Crompton, Body and Soul, The Times
Mark Henderson, Body and Soul, The Times
Graham Lawton, New Scientist
Jeremy Laurence, The Independent
Margaret McCartney, Financial Times
Mark Nicholls, Eastern Daily Press
Helen Pilcher, Nature
Jean Rafferty, Sunday Herald
Consumer News
Simon Crompton, Body and Soul, The Times
Mark Henderson, The Times
Nicholas Hodgson, Derby Evening Telegraph
Joanna Kowalski, Nottingham Evening Post
Jeremy Laurence, The Independent
Sam Lister, The Times
Trade News
Emma Baines, GP Newspaper
Nick Bostock, GP Newspaper
Ian Cameron, Pulse Magazine
Edward Davies, GP Newspaper
Nerys Hairon, Pulse Magazine
Sam Lister, The Times
Daniel Martin, Health Service Journal
Helen Mooney, Health Service Journal
Lisa Pritchard, Student BMA News
Emma Vere-Jones, Hospital Doctor
Trade Feature
Lucy Benson, GP Magazine
Rachel Bowden, GP Magazine
Mike Foster, BMA News
Nerys Hairon, Pulse Magazine
Peter Madigan, Cover Magazine
Daniel Martin, Health Service Journal
Prisca Middlemiss, GP Magazine
Deanna Wilson, European Healthcare Management
General Medical
Best Newcomer
Emma Brady, Birmingham Post
Lucy Benson, GP Magazine
Rachel Bowden, GP Magazine
Sarah Cole, Southern Daily Echo
Edward Davies, GP Magazine
Sam Lister, The Times
Daniel Martin, Health Service Journal
Lyndsay Moss, Press Association
Melanie Newman, Hospital Doctor
Emma Vere Jones, Hospital Doctor
FINANCING HEALTHCARE
Trade
Nick Bostock, GP
Joanna Lyall, Dental Practice Management
Peter Madigan, Cover
David Sawers, Health Insurance
Consumer
Mark Andrew-Nicholls, Eastern Daily Press
Matthew Hill, BBC News Online
Isabelle Kassam, The Sun
Moira O’Neill, Money Observer
Best Newcomer (Consumer)
Emma Brady, Birmingham Post
Faith Dewey, Daily Telegraph
Esther Shaw, Independent on Sunday
Best Newcomer (Trade)
Zoe Butt, Money Management
Mike Foster, BMA News
Holly Williams, Money Management
BROADCAST RADIO
Beth Eastwood, BBC Radio 4
Anna Ford, BBC Radio 4
Matthew Hill, File on Radio 4
Vivienne Parry, BBC Radio 4
Rami Tzbar, BBC Radio 4
John Waite, BBC Radio 4
Richard Wilson, BBC Radio Scotland
BROADCAST TV
Sarah Barclay, Panorama
Liz Bloor, Panorama
Eleanor Bradford, BBC Scotland
Peter Cullimore, ITV Wales
Dot Kirby, BBC News
Peter Lane, Channel 5 News
Victoria Macdonald, Channel 4 News
Vicky Marriott, ITV West
Michelle Maynard, West Eye View
Dorothy Parker, BBC Scotland
Sue Saville, ITV News
Nigel Thompson, BBC South East
Fergus Walsh, BBC News
Please note publications listed above are where the short listed articles were published
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Notes to editors:
- Norwich Union is the UK's largest insurer. It is a leading provider of life, pensions and investment products and one of the leading Financial Adviser (FA) providers. FAs provide around 75% of the company's long-term savings business in the UK
- Norwich Union has strategic alliances with building societies and other leading UK brand names including Tesco Personal Finance and The Royal Bank of Scotland Group.
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About Norwich Union Healthcare
- Norwich Union Healthcare was founded in 1990 as the healthcare arm of Norwich Union and now provides a range of income protection and private medical insurance products that cover over 800,000 lives. It is one of the largest providers of income protection and private medical insurance in the UK.
- Member of the Association of British Insurers and the Financial Ombudsman Service.
About The Medical Journalists' Association
- The MJA is an independent professional association for anyone who writes, edits or produces material on health or medicine in the media. The current membership includes medical and healthcare journalists, as well as doctors, nurses and therapists, contributing to national and provincial newspapers, specialist, business and consumer magazines, radio and television, the web and books. www.mja-uk.org