Jacqui Thornton has been a leading news and features journalist in the competitive world of British national newspapers for more than 15 years. As news reporter, then health correspondent at the Sunday Telegraph, followed by Health Editor at the Sun, she gained a reputation as a leader in her field of health writing.
Now she uses that unique experience to offer media training, PR skills training, chairing and writing services to healthcare companies, charities and PR agencies, as well as individual scientists and clinicians. She still works as a freelance journalist for the Observer, Cosmopolitan and the Sun and has been shortlisted for Best Consumer Feature 2009 by the Guild of Health Writers.
Living in Hampshire, she also sits on the Board of Winchester and Eastleigh Healthcare NHS Trust as a non-executive director, and lectures on journalism at Winchester University.

Jacqui spoke alongside former spin doctor Alastair Campbell at the Talking About Mental Health conference on February 1.
The event, supported by charity Mind, tackled stigma in the media.

Down and Out?, a hard-hitting report on behalf of homeless charity St Mungo's was written by Jacqui.
The 64-page analysis followed a Call for Evidence, which attracted more than 90 responses.

An article by Jacqui on the ABPI Code and the media featured in PM magazine in December.
It argued pharma needs to be more open about the way it deals with journalists.

Jacqui shared a platform with Lord King talking about diabetes in the South Asian community.
It followed her good practice guide, published last year. Read a report of the event by Asian Image.

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