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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.