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Biography
Victoria joined Channel 4 News as its social affairs correspondent in January 1999, working as part of the home affairs team.
Since then she has covered the numerous changes in the NHS, has won a number of awards for her reporting on the state of the mental health services in the UK, and for her health reporting in general.
Victoria has worked on a number of investigations including concerns over the use of private companies to treat NHS patients on waiting lists and questions over cover-ups involving the arthritis drug, Vioxx.
Victoria has also reported extensively on Aids in South Africa, including becoming the first British television reporter to interview Chief Buthelezi on the deaths of two of his children from the disease.
Before she came to Channel 4 News, Victoria worked for the Sunday Telegraph for 10 years as the newspaper's health correspondent - over the period of the Conservative's government's controversial wholesale reforms of the NHS.
One of her last articles was on the failure of the World Health Organisation to prove, in its 10-year study, that passive smoking causes lung cancer, a story picked up by news organisations around the world.
Victoria trained in Auckland, New Zealand and worked in Australia before moving to England.
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Victoria Macdonald
