Wednesday 13 October, from 6-8pm in room A130 on the first floor of College Building, 280 St John’s Street, London EC1V 4PB.
In this talk, Sally Gainsbury will show you how to report accurately on public spending stories. She will explain how to find where the bodies are buried in official publications, how to decode jargon and what questions to ask. She will explain the fundamentals of reporting public finance and how to avoid mistakes and spin.
In the second half of the talk you will look at a case study and learn how to report on NHS spending, including how to investigate where the £100bn spent on the NHS goes and what the taxpayer gets for their money.
about Sally Gainsbury
Sally is News Editor for the Health Service Journal and the Nursing Times. She has specialised in public policy and public finance reporting since 2005 when she started working for Public Finance magazine. Her investigation uncovering how NHS hospitals were channelling money earned through treating private patients, through third parties such as charities, to circumvent a cap on their private work led to the foundation trust Monitor and the Department of Health being sanctioned through judicial review last year.