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.

Lightweight football boots could be to blame for the rise in fractures in amateurs, reported the Sun.
The exclusive article, written by Jacqui, quoted Professor David Barrett of Southampton General Hospital.

Jacqui's latest media training client is the Samaritans.
She carried out a day's training at their HQ in Ewell, Surrey, in April.

The life of a British GP turned flying doctor in Austalia was the subject of Jacqui's latest article for the Daily Telegraph.
It told of Dr Emma Boulton, from Oxford, who is now working in the outback.

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