The winners. Strudwick was unable to attend the ceremony but his mother collected the award on his behalf
Freelance journalist and Gay Times columnist Patrick Strudwick made it two gongs in a week with a win at Thursday's Guild of Health Writers annual awards.
Strudwick was unable to attend the event in person as he went to collect the Journalist of the Year Award on the same evening from charity Stonewall. The Guild of Health Writers prize recognised Patrick's investigation into the practice of 'conversion therapy' for the Independent with the Best National Newspaper Feature prize.
Edinburgh Evening News reporter Adam Morris won the regional category for his reports on dementia care in the Lothian region, while Reuters' health and science correspondent Kate Kelland took home the Best Online Health Feature Award for a special report on financial incentive schemes to give up smoking.
"At a time when many journalists are facing tighter editorial budgets, reduced issue sizes and even redundancy, the winning entries displayed a fantastic range of subject matter and a very high standard of work, which shows that good health journalism is thriving despite the recession," says Paul Dinsdale, chair of the guild's judging panel, in a press release.
"We were particularly pleased about the number of younger journalists producing high quality work and the range of subjects that they tackled, which is very encouraging for the future of health journalism."
The full list of winners is below:
Best Trade/Specialist Feature
Janet Wright, 'Party without pain', Frontline
Best Regional Publication Feature
Adam Morris, 'Mum's tragic plea: Don't let me die in here', Edinburgh Evening News
Best Health Campaign
Edward Davie, 'Private firms refuse to treat patients with mental illness', BMA News
Best Online Health Feature
Kate Kelland, 'Special report: In austere times can bribery be healthy?'
Best TV Health Programme
Jane Hughes, Alzheimer's, BBC News
Best Consumer Magazine Feature
Anna Magee, 'Can you really buy time on your biological clock?', Marie Claire
Best National Newspaper Feature
Patrick Strudwick, 'The ex-gay files', the Independent
Lifetime Achievement Award
Dr Chris Steele
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