Hedged claims are ones written with attribution or uncertainty
(“reportedly”, “according to”). A higher rate is
not a fault: it is often careful sourcing.
How these are measured.
What they cover
Health
100%
Most-tagged topics
NHSUniversity College LondonBritonsCovidEnglandKentKing’s FundLondon
Leaning
Not enough articles to place this byline.
3 scored articles;
a leaning average needs at least 8 before it says more
about the writer than about which stories they happened to be assigned.
Their outlet averages -0.26
(leans left).
More from this journalist
Ordered by how many newsrooms covered the same event.
🔮 Three out of four family doctors are now too time-pressed to talk to patients in depth about how they might stop smoking, lose weight or get more sleep, the Royal College of GPs has found. assertive
🔮 York and Scarborough NHS trust’s supplies had been disrupted since May 2025, and Royal Wolverhampton NHS trust had trouble getting enough co-codamol for the 10 months between October 2025 and August this year. assertive
🔮 It will be published on Friday amid concern that those conditions help explain why a record 2.8 million Britons are too sick to work and almost 1 million young people aged 16 to 24 have become “Neets” – not in education, employment or training. assertive
Forward-looking sentences extracted from their articles, oldest first.
Nothing here checks whether any of it turned out to be right.
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