Jacqui Thornton is a health journalist, facilitator and media trainer who, after a 15 year career in British national newspapers, now advices clinicians, medical charities, and the pharmaceutical industry on communication skills. She earned her spurs as news reporter, then health correspondent at the Sunday Telegraph, followed by Health Editor at the Sun. Since 2007 she has run Jacqui Thornton Communications, whose clients include the Royal College of Surgeons, the Department of Health, and the Wellcome Trust. She chairs events at conferences, advisory boards and private meetings, media trains clinicians and commentates on the BBC and BMJ.com. She still works as a freelance journalist and is a member of the Medical Journalists' Association and the Guild of Health Writers in the UK. She sits on the Board of Winchester and Eastleigh Healthcare NHS Trust as a non-executive director, and is a lecturer in journalism at Winchester University.

Jacqui is chairing two sessions at the European CME Forum in Amsterdam in November.
Speakers include Richard Bergström, Director General of EFPIA and Reinhard Griebenow, Chair, European Board for Accreditation in Cardiology.

Jacqui had a key role in the production of Macmillan Cancer support's media facing report Move More, backed by celebrity Jo Brand.
Jacqui advised on strategy, liaised with the policy and comms teams and wrote the 18 page report for the charity. It was followed widely in the UK and globally. Read it here.

A BMJ.com podcast about patients' data in the wake of the phone hacking scandal featured Jacqui.
She was interviewed along with Annabel Ferriman, senior news editor and Jane Smith, deputy editor. Listen here.

Jacqui media trained three eminent scientists in advance of the launch of Arthritis Research UK's new tissue engineering centre.
Their work on stem cells, which may one day mean fewer hip and knee replacements, was featured in the Daily Mail and BBC Radio.

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