Guardian health policy editor Denis Campbell and data journalist Pamela Duncan won the award for News Story of the Year (general audience) at the Medical Journalists’ Association Awards. They were honoured for their groundbreaking article NHS accused of covering up huge data loss that put thousands at risk which exposed one of the biggest losses of sensitive clinical information in the NHS’s history and sparked multiple inquiries.
The Medical Journalists’ Association Awards ‘recognise and reward outstanding examples of health and medical journalism’.
The full list of winners can be found here.
