The annual MJA Awards recognise and reward outstanding examples of health and medical journalism. Judged by her peers the fact that Hannah won 4, three for her work on exposing gender medicine in the Tavistock, and one for an article on failed maternity care in the NHS shows how the tide is turning. The truth is powerful. With Medical Journalists onside the battle can be won.
She won the overall most important award:
Outstanding Contribution to Health and Medical Journalism – supported by AstraZeneca
Our premier award, which is decided by a majority vote of our full panel of independent judges from winners in all categories.
Winner – Hannah Barnes
New Statesman: The Cass Review into children’s gender care should shame us all / How children’s gender care went so wrong
Accessible, readable, balanced article covering an important and contentious topic. She recognises that this affects a very vulnerable group of people who need understanding, help and support. She highlights that any treatment needs to be evidence based, and where such evidence doesn’t exist, we should take steps to find the evidence to ensure that the patients get the best possible care.
Hannah Barnes
I am shocked, and utterly over the moon, to win four MJAAwards this evening, including the Outstanding Contribution to Health Journalism. It’s a complete honour. Thank you to the judges and all those who have helped and supported me with these stories.
Details:
Hannah is an awards Barnes-stormer
https://mjauk.org/2024/09/11/hannah-is-an-awards-barnes-stormer/
She also won a JKR retweet:
J.K. Rowling
Congratulations to hannahsbee, whose brilliant book 'Time to Think' documents the collapse of the Tavistock Gender Identity & Development Service, which referred 2000 minors for often irreversible medical interventions on what the Cass Review called 'remarkably weak evidence.'