Vidushi Tiwari
Vidushi Tiwari is a broadcast and digital journalist at STV News who specialises in health and social care stories and explains how changes in services affect patients and staff. Her work focuses on turning clinical research, official reviews and health board decisions into clear, accessible reporting for a general audience. She presents, produces and reports across bulletins and online platforms, with health coverage as a consistent thread.
Smear tests and cervical screening
A regular strand of her reporting looks at how preventive health services evolve, with a particular focus on screening. In her coverage of why the days of heading to a GP surgery for a smear test could be over, she sets out how new cervical screening methods work and what they mean for routine appointments. She explains the practical steps for patients, the reasons behind the change, and the implications for early detection. The piece reflects her interest in service design, access and the way small procedural shifts can remove barriers to care.
Patient safety and hospital care
Tiwari reports in depth on patient safety in hospital settings, often anchored in formal reviews and investigations. Her coverage of morphine underdoses at a major children’s cardiac ward follows a catalogue of failures identified in a report, outlining how medication errors happened and what oversight was missing. She details the findings and consequences in plain language, keeping the focus on the affected patients and the systemic lessons for clinical teams. In this type of story she prioritises clarity around what went wrong, who is accountable and what changes are promised to prevent repeat failures.
Health research and inequality
Research-driven stories are another core part of her beat, especially where they highlight unequal outcomes. In reporting on avoidable deaths among adults with learning disabilities, she draws on new research findings to show how often these deaths occur and the reasons they are not prevented. She links statistical evidence with the everyday experiences of people who rely on health and social care, underlining gaps in monitoring, communication and follow-up. Her coverage emphasises the need for systems that recognise vulnerability, and she tracks how health authorities respond when stark figures are put in front of them.
Everyday health advice and workforce pressures
Alongside policy and research, Tiwari also covers day-to-day public health advice and the pressures on the people delivering care. A piece on guidance to “walk like a penguin” to avoid falls on icy streets takes a light, memorable phrase from a local health board and turns it into a practical segment on winter safety. She uses that kind of story to pass on simple, evidence-based tips while keeping the tone approachable. In coverage of workers gathering from across the country in the health and social care sector, she reports on staff concerns, industrial action and the strain on services, linking workplace conditions back to patient care. Across these stories, she shows an interest in both the frontline experience of health staff and the small behavioural changes that keep people safe.
Across her output at STV News, Tiwari’s distinguishing feature is the way she sits between broadcast and digital formats to make health systems legible. Whether the subject is a new screening pathway, a safety investigation or a piece of seasonal advice, she focuses on what the change is, who it touches and how institutions explain their decisions. Her work offers consistent coverage of health services, with particular attention to patient safety, inequality and the realities of working inside stretched care systems.
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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.
Ally Head
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