OUR HEALTH EDITOR’S TOP PRIZE AT MEDICAL JOURNALISM ‘OSCARS’

THE Mail on Sunday’s Health Editor has scooped the top gong at the annual ‘Oscars’ of medical journalism.

Barney Calman won the Health Editor of the Year award from the Medical Journalists’ Association, which honours ‘outstanding examples of health and medical journalism’.

He led this newspaper’s campaign to get GPs to see patients face-to-face again after Covid restrictions were lifted.

Judges said: ‘The MoS health section launched a punchy campaign on the continuing problem, totally in tune with readers’ concerns, with a slew of distressing stories from them.’

They added that our coverage ‘showed how to run a popular campaign – with commitment and gusto’.

Others feted in the awards included Rosie Taylor, who won Freelancer of the Year for her investigation for the MoS into the banned drug co-proxamol.

And our GP columnist Dr Ellie Cannon was ‘highly commended’ in the Mental Health Story of the Year category for writing about her experience of taking antidepressants.