Irene Scott
Irene Scott writes health features for The Scottish Farmer. Her coverage centres on practical guidance that helps readers manage everyday wellbeing, with a focus on concrete behaviours rather than abstract health policy. She uses clear, advice-led framing that highlights why a specific aspect of health matters and encourages readers to take care of it in their daily routines.
Skin health and summer conditions
Skin health in warmer weather is a defined focus of her work. In her Health Hut piece on looking after skin in summer, she treats seasonal change as a prompt for preventative care and sustained attention to skin health.
The headline positions the importance of caring for skin as the central message, signalling that her coverage connects everyday habits with long-term wellbeing.
Advice-driven health coverage
Her health writing is structured around straightforward advice that tells readers what to pay attention to and why. The Health Hut framing and the emphasis on “the importance of looking after your skin this summer” show a preference for practical, behaviour-focused topics over technical medical detail.
She writes in plain, accessible language that keeps the emphasis on simple steps readers can take to look after themselves.
Health within a specialist publication
By covering health for a farming and agri-business publication like The Scottish Farmer, she brings general wellbeing topics into a specialist news environment. Her work adds a personal health dimension to a masthead better known for industry and rural coverage.
Within that context, her pieces function as service journalism, offering clear, actionable health advice alongside sector-focused news.
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Alan Booth
Alan Booth is distinctive for linking infectious disease, laboratory research and emerging health technologies rather than treating them as separate beats. He is a senior editor at Labmate-Online, where he covers outbreaks, vaccines, drug development, antimicrobial resistance, gene therapies and laboratory innovation. His reporting has examined tuberculosis, measles, cholera, influenza and malaria, including a major tuberculosis outbreak, vaccine and drug advances, and a malaria vaccine designed to block mosquito transmission. He has also written about antibiotic-resistant bacteria, new gene therapy centres and SinS Brighton 2025. Booth reports news, research updates, interviews and event coverage for a broad laboratory audience. He presents LabMatePod, discussing AMR, emerging pathogens, public health responses and scientific history. Across articles, interviews and podcasts, he connects laboratory findings with health policy and technology using clear, well-researched science communication.
Alex Storey
Alex Storey is a journalist at LBC whose work is driven by specific cases that test professional conduct and accountability in health and the public sector. He covers health as his main beat, focusing on the point where individual decisions by clinicians or officials meet public trust in institutions. His reporting is incident-first and case-led, using concrete episodes to show how rules, ethics and policy work in real life. Recent pieces include a disciplinary case where a nurse was struck off after linking a patient’s cancer to Covid jabs, and coverage of civil servants being “paid to play Grand Theft Auto” as “lived experience” training. Across these stories, he examines how professionals, regulators and officials explain their decisions, and what that reveals about trust, responsibility and the standards expected of people in positions of authority.
Alexandra Thompson
Alexandra Thompson is an assistant news editor focused on health who treats health claims as hypotheses to be tested rather than messages to be repeated. She works at New Scientist, combining editing with frontline reporting on ageing brains, cognitive health, chronic illness, contested treatments and infectious disease. Her beat centres on how neuroscience and psychology intersect with everyday health choices and on how scientific findings translate into real-world outcomes for people living with illness. She examines lifestyle advice, rehabilitation programmes and outbreak guidance against current evidence, clarifying risk without overstating it and giving space to controversy without sensationalising it. Alongside written news she appears in audio and video formats, bringing the same clear, news-driven approach to live discussions and helping shape the daily health agenda while keeping a tight focus on evidence and impact.
Alice Wilkinson
Alice Wilkinson investigates how everyday habits, products and routines shape sleep and long-term wellbeing, using test-driven health features to separate hype from real benefit. She holds a senior role on The Telegraph’s health features team, writing and shaping consumer-focused coverage that blends personal trial with clear expert evidence. Her core beat is sleep as a practical, solvable part of daily life, from detailed comparisons of magnesium supplements to service pieces on how sleeping position affects health over time. She treats supplements as a crowded, over-claimed market that demands careful testing and clear-eyed reporting. Alongside long-form features she writes weekly health desk dispatches on sleep, stress and concentration. Across her work she combines substantial self-testing, specialist insight and plain, unfussy prose to give readers measurable, realistic changes they can make.