COVER editor Catherine Tennant has scooped a top journalism award for the second year running. Beat...
COVER editor Catherine Tennant has scooped a top journalism award for the second year running.
Beating a number of national and trade journalists, Catherine won second prize in the Financing Healthcare category of the Norwich Union Healthcare/Medical Journalists' Association Medical Journalism Awards 1999.
From around 100 entries, the prize was awarded for Catherine's feature on active management of income protection claims, which appeared in COVER and its sister consumer publication, Bloomberg Money. The article looked at how claims managers will often step outside policy terms and conditions to rehabilitate claimants and get them back to work.
Commenting on the article, Walter Merricks, chief financial services ombudsman, who led the judging, said it was a "fluent and enticing piece of writing that carries the reader along, clearly coming from a journalist who has a real way with words."
Catherine won the same award last year for a piece on self-paying for private medical treatment.
Merricks also commended Rachel Williams, staff writer for COVER, for what he described as an "excellent feature" on hospital networks. He said: "If [Rachel] is turning out pieces like this at the age of 22 she will be knocking on the winners' door very soon."
