Victoria Macdonald has been covering health and social care issues for Channel 4 News since 1999 and has won several awards for her stories and investigations. She is closely following the massive reforms of the NHS and all its twists and turns, as well as reporting on changes to welfare and its affects on people with disabilities. In 2007 she exposed a serious flaw in the on-line application system for junior doctors which was allowing anybody to access personal details, including previous convictions. The government was forced to temporarily suspend the site until they could make it secure.
Victoria has also reported on international health issues including HIV and Aids and TB in South Africa and was the first television journalist to interview Chief Butheleizi following the deaths of two of his children from Aids. She is originally from New Zealand and worked for the Sunday Telegraph before joining Channel 4 News.
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English Defence League leader "Tommy Robinson" tells Victoria Macdonald "weak leaders" created the situation which led to the murder of a serving soldier in south east London.
After Mid-Staffs, Sir David Nicholson must have known his resignation as head of the NHS was inevitable.
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Tory eurosceptic MPs won a small, but significant, victory in their bid to get a bill through parliament committing the government to holding a referendum on Europe after the next general election.
"My head was wrecked,absolutely wrecked. I couldn't take it anymore." Frankie Dettori to @ClareBalding on #c4news 7pm http://t.co/XPRPP7bNKj
— vsmacdonald (@vsmacdonald) 16 May 2013
An investigation by Channel 4 News raises serious questions about whether, despite public assurances from the man at the top, the NHS can protect those speaking out about patient safety.
The government's ambition is to fully join up health and social by 2018, but some services are already beginning to pioneer models of integrated care.
With no mention of minimum pricing for alcohol and cigarettes in the Queen's speech, are politicians not thinking ahead or do they realise exactly what they're doing?
More than a million people will have dementia by 2021 - but at the moment it can be slow and difficult to diagnose. That's what a new testing system hopes to improve.
Paul Lamb, who has been paralysed and in severe pain for 23 years, is seeking the legal right for a medically assisted suicide at a time of his choosing.
In the government's response to the Mid-Staffordshire inquiry report hospitals and care homes will have to inform people if they believe treatment of care has caused death or serious injury.
Could a ratings system for the NHS increase accountability, improve patient choice and enhance performance? The Nuffield trust has been investigating.
NHS bosses are struggling to save £20bn over four years and the number of NHS nurses fell 800 last month, but a £2.2bn underspend at the Department of Health has gone back to the Treasury.
From April, GPs will become responsible for most of the NHS budget. What happens if family doctors want to refer patients to private firms in which they have a financial interest?
Sir David Nicholson, the chief executive of the NHS Commissioning Board, refuses to be filmed over questions over failing health care at Mid-Staffs NHS.
Watch again - @GaryGibbonBlog's exclusive TV interview with jailed ex minister Chris #Huhne: http://t.co/pfDoHbVqhY #c4news
— vsmacdonald (@vsmacdonald) 11 March 2013
Jeremy Hunt's speech to the Nuffield Trust conference has all the hallmarks of "bog standard comprehensives", giving rise to the obvious danger that his remarks will forever haunt him.
At last year's International Aids Conference there was talk of finding a cure for HIV - just six months later it feels as if it might actually happen, writes Victoria Macdonald.
Women have put up with sexual harassment for years. But now there is a growing feeling of optimism because it is finally being discussed - and, more importantly, roundly condemned.
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— vsmacdonald (@vsmacdonald) 18 February 2013
The Oscar Pistorius we see today, his face hidden from a media scrum as he is charged with murdering his girlfriend, is an imposter compared to the impressive man Victoria Macdonald met six years ago.
