If you couldn't attend this year's awards or want to find out more about our amazing winners we have an excellent round up video now on our website so go and take a look! mjauk.org/2025/10/01/w...

Every GP practice now has to offer online booking, writes MJA member Nick Triggle www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

NHS offering new ovarian cancer surveillance test for high risk women, a fascinsting report by MJA member @vsmacdonald.bsky.social www.channel4.com/news/nhs-off...

Study uncovers toll of ketamine in UK with 20-fold rise in deaths - @poppykoronka.bsky.social reports www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcar...

The Covid pandemic disrupted the “very fabric of childhood”, the UK inquiry has heard, on the first day of a four-week session devoted to its impact on children and young people.

The latest measles figures show falling numbers which is reassuring but there is zero room for complacency, @ukhsa.bsky.social told me. None of this happens by accident, public health teams work hard in communities with poor uptake to address access, info, etc www.pulsetoday.co.uk/news/clinica...

Hear more about the work that led to freelance journalist Adele Waters win not one but TWO awards at our recent ceremony. Her powerful pieces for @bmj.com and @dailymail.co.uk had impact and affected change. mjauk.org/2025/09/18/a...

NHS trust suspends letters because it cannot afford paper www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/09...

Elderly impacted most by NHS backlog crisis www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/09...

Families face unfair ‘luck of the draw’ over NHS continuing healthcare decisions by MJA member @janekirby.bsky.social www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

At the #mjaawards last week, our chair @shaunlintern.bsky.social spoke incredibly movingly about why we do what we do. See more detail and our list of winners on the MJA website. mjauk.org/2025/09/17/t...

Post-pandemic there was a big jump in antibiotic prescribing in children in England. For @pharmaj.bsky.social I spoke to experts about why this happened and how we get back on track pharmaceutical-journal.com/article/feat...

An amazing night at the #mjaawards celebrating the best in UK health journalism. Holding power to account and reporting that leads to change were big themes this year. See the full list of winners on our website mjauk.org/2025/09/17/b...

The NHS risks becoming normalised because of its toxic cover-up culture @events.hsj.co.uk Patient Safety Congress will hear reports @andrewgregory.com www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

If you want to attend our awards on Wednesday and haven't already RSVP'd you have until NOON today! There is a livestream for those who can't make it - all details on our website at the link below mjauk.org/2025/08/15/f...

Lots of team efforts in our News Story of the Year (Broadcast)! Congrats to @itvnews.bsky.social BBC News at Ten and 5 News, ITN 👏

Running through a few more of our awards finalists ahead of next week's ceremony. For Health and Climate Change reporting we have Hristio Boytchev, Natalie Widmann and Simon Wörpel from @bmj.com, Adele Waters, and Michael Peel, Ian Bott, Steven Bernard and Charlie Bibby from @financialtimes.com

At our awards ceremony next week we will find out our winners but until then we will continue to celebrate the finalists! Shortlisted for the Gordon McVie Award for Reporting Cancer Research are @liamdrew.bsky.social @rosietaylorjourno.bsky.social and Clare Wilson 👏

Continuing to celebrate our finalists for the 2025 MJA Awards, today we have Feature of the Year (general). Our shortlist is @andrewgregory.com @natashaloder.bsky.social @warrenmanger.bsky.social Adele Waters and @whippletom.bsky.social - you can view all the details below mjauk.org/2025/08/15/f...

Our 2025 awards shortlist for Feature of the Year (Broadcast), is a stellar line up. We have BBC File on 4 Investigates on a women locked in a mental health facility for decades, C4 Dispatches on A&E pressures and ITVX on backstreet surgery. All teams and packages can be seen at the link below!

Today let's take a look at our Editor of the Year shortlist. We have @jameshalliwell.bsky.social from C+D, Jennifer Richardson from @bmj.com and Fiona Walker from @tbij.bsky.social - Congrats all!

Calling MJA members (and especially those on our awards shortlist), remember you need to register to attend our ceremony on 17th Sept. If your name's not down you're not getting in (tight security over at News International). Follow the link below and grab your place mjauk.org/2025/08/15/m...

Continuing our roll call of finalists for this year's awards. Shortlisted for The Dr Delvin Award for Sex and Sexual Health Journalism we have @drdavidcox.bsky.social @eleanorhayward.bsky.social and Noel Titheradge. Well done all!

Ahead of our awards this month, we'll be celebrating our finalists. We're looking forward to cheering you all on at our ceremony on 17th September. You can see all the details on our website mjauk.org/2025/08/15/f...

Big thanks to the @mja-uk.bsky.social ‬for the double shortlisting, including for this piece on mosquitoes with @ian-bott.bsky.social, Steve Bernard and Charlie Bibby. www.ft.com/content/816c... Congrats also to my wonderful columnist colleague @anjahuja.bsky.social. mjauk.org/2025/08/15/f...

True cost of the UK’s obesity crisis revealed – and how weight-loss jabs could be key. By @rebeccasmt.bsky.social and Alicja Hagopian www.independent.co.uk/news/health/...

A breakthrough in prostate cancer will allow doctors to find out whether men will respond to chemotherapy, sparing thousands from unnecessary treatment, writes @eleanorhayward.bsky.social www.thetimes.com/article/71a8...

I am away at the moment so I missed this @bmj.com investigation coming out. It took months of work and all started when my sister asked me about tooth stem cell banking. My niece has diabetes, there was lots of talk of it online what did I think? www.bmj.com/content/390/...

Invitation to launch of the 2025 Bupa Wellness Index for @mjauk memvers mjauk.org/2025/08/19/i...

Yesterday we met up with friends from @absw.bsky.social + @mja-uk.bsky.social and it was all about: 👋 Saying hi to old friends 🤝 Meeting great new people 🗣 Chatting STEM, stories + summer! Thanks to everyone who came along - you made it such a enjoyable event 💫

A wonderful piece of writing by MJA member @whippletom.bsky.social on the amazing science behind the vaccine that means we might just eradicate one cancer: www.thetimes.com/article/76c8...

Labour is preparing to kick off a new wave of public-private partnerships (PPPs) in England to build the neighbourhood health centres at the heart of its NHS 10-year plan: www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Delighted to have been shortlisted for podcast of the year for my BBC Radio 4/ BBC Sounds doc on the Lightning Process, the misleading treatment preying on long Covid patients and telling them their illness is in their minds #MJAAwards

Now thousands give up trying to get an ambulance to A&E, by @mjauk member Shaun Wooller www.dailymail.co.uk/health/artic...

I'm absolutely delighted to be shortlisted for The Gordon McVie Award for Reporting Cancer Research.

Very proud to be chair of the @mja-uk.bsky.social today and to see some of the quality journalism by our many members on display here. Hundreds more entered besides. Thanks to our independent judges. Also chuffed to have sneaked in myself here or there. #mjaawards

🚨 Finalists for the 2025 Medical Journalists' Association Awards are revealed today. #mjaawards mjauk.org/2025/08/15/f...

Chikungunya cases detected among returning travellers more than double in England this year, Storm Newton reports www.independent.co.uk/news/health/...

Knee-replacement implant used on thousands of NHS patients known to be faulty for years www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

‘None of us feel safe’: attacks on A&E nurses double in six years as waits rise, reports MJA member Denis Campbell www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Could the UK lose it's low incidence TB status - analysis from @kateevebowie.bsky.social www.bmj.com/content/390/...

Sir Keir Starmer’s plan to overhaul the NHS has been thrown into chaos after no money has been set aside to cover the costs of making thousands of redundancies at ICBs www.thetimes.com/article/14b7...

A toddler is “99% cured” from a previously untreatable brain condition after a world-first operation at @AlderHey children’s hospital. Report by MJA member @poppykoronka.bsky.social www.thetimes.com/article/711e...

Annual social event for ABSW, MJA and Stempra is coming soon - 21 August 2025, in London. #ABSWmembers, you can book your place here👉 www.absw.org.uk/events/absw-... Have a great evening with @mja-uk.bsky.social and @stempra.bsky.social fellows! 📸And send us some funny pictures!

BBC's James Gallagher takes a deeper look at RFK Jr and mRNA vaccine funding www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Fascinating story from MJA member @eleanorhayward.bsky.social - have we finally unlocked the secrets of #ME #CFS? www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcar...

One in five NHS doctors say they are considering quitting or moving abroad in pursuit of better pay and working conditions www.thetimes.com/article/f86a...

Inside the MJA Awards decision day: mjauk.org/2025/07/27/a...