Journalism

Jane is a health writer and production journalist with extensive experience on national newspapers and magazines in the UK and Australia.

She edited the health pages of The Sun for five years, where she led a successful campaign for the breast cancer therapy Herceptin to be made available for women in early stages of the disease; exposed Mrs Gillian McKeith’s lack of credible medical qualifications and worked to raise awareness of hepatitis C.

In a Fleet Street career spanning three decades Jane has edited the health pages of Woman’s Own and worked as a writer or sub-editor on titles including the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday, Daily and Sunday Express, Daily and Sunday Mirror, The Times and Daily Telegraph — where she was chief sub-editor of the prestigious Saturday magazine.

Recently her work has appeared in the Daily Express, Daily Mail, Mirror, Woman magazine and on the NetDoctor website.

In 2007 she received Cancer Research UK’s National Communicator Flame of Hope Award for her campaigns at The Sun on Herceptin and bowel-cancer screening.

In 2010, her efforts to expose serious problems within the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority were raised in Parliament.

Jane was shortlisted for the Medical Journalists’ Association Health Editor of the Year in 2009.

She is a vice chair of the Medical Journalists’ Association and launched and edits the Association’s website.

She is also a member of the Guild of Health Writers.