Alex Storey
Alex Storey is a journalist at LBC who covers health and adjacent public sector stories through specific cases that raise questions about professional conduct and accountability. His recent work focuses on the point where individual decisions by clinicians or officials intersect with public trust in institutions. He writes in a case-led way, using concrete incidents to show how rules, ethics and policy play out in real life.
Nurse struck off over Covid jab claim
One of Storey’s key recent pieces covers a disciplinary case in which a nurse is struck off after telling a patient that their cancer was caused by taking Covid jabs. In that story, he focuses on the consequences when a health professional tells a vulnerable person that a serious illness is the result of vaccination, and on how regulators respond. The choice of case shows an interest in the overlap between misinformation, clinical practice and the formal processes that are meant to protect patients.
The framing is incident-first: the nurse’s remark to the patient, the sanction that follows, and the resulting message about professional standards in healthcare. Storey’s approach in this piece is to anchor a wider debate about Covid vaccines and public confidence in a single, traceable decision, rather than in abstract argument. The emphasis stays on what was said, what happened next, and what that signals about the limits of acceptable conduct for people in clinical roles.
Civil servants 'paid to play Grand Theft Auto'
Storey’s byline also appears on coverage of civil servants being “paid to play Grand Theft Auto” as part of a programme intended to teach “lived experience”. In that report he looks beyond frontline health to the culture and training of the public sector, picking a story where the use of public money and staff time is likely to be contested. The subject matter again turns on whether an official scheme meets common-sense expectations of professionalism and value.
This strand of his work broadens his beat from clinical settings to the wider state apparatus that shapes people’s daily lives. The Grand Theft Auto story is still grounded in an individual scheme with clear, checkable details, but it asks broader questions about judgement, priorities and how public bodies justify unconventional approaches. Taken with his health coverage, it shows a consistent focus on how institutional decisions are explained to the public and how far they align with public expectations.
Case-led scrutiny of health and the state
Across these stories, Storey’s through-line is case-led scrutiny of how professionals and public bodies behave when they hold power over others. In health, he writes about a nurse’s claims about Covid jabs and the formal act of striking them off, using the structure of a disciplinary outcome to explore the boundaries of acceptable practice. In government, he reports on civil servants being paid to play a video game as “lived experience” training, and the questions that raises about seriousness, priorities and oversight.
His beat centres on health, but the examples he chooses often sit at the edge of that brief, where health, policy and public spending meet. The result is coverage that treats health not only as clinical care but as part of a larger system of decisions taken by professionals, regulators and officials. For readers, his work offers specific, documented cases that illuminate bigger arguments about trust, responsibility and the standards expected of people working in positions of authority.
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