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The Independent UK

The Independent’s Rebecca Thomas named health journalist of the year in the Press Awards 2025

The Independent correspondent Rebecca Thomas has been named health journalist of the year at the Press Awards 2025.

Ms Thomas’s work exposed a case of an autistic man who had been trapped in dementia care units and A&E wards for 10 years, a “culture of fear” that allowed nurses to abuse their patients and a scandal of sexual assault of patients within NHS mental health trusts.

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