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Lucy Johnston (born 1969) is a British journalist, currently health editor of the ''Sunday Express'', and previously a staff reporter and investigative journalist for ''The Observer''. Johnston was a member of the original editorial team of ''The Big Issue'' in 1992. She has become known for her investigative articles on London's drug culture, deaths in police custody, animal research, and the pharmaceutical industry, and for her campaigns to improve healthcare provision to the elderly and mentally ill. ==Education and career== Johnston was educated at Culford School in Bury St Edmunds. She moved to London in 1992 to work as a volunteer for ''The Big Issue'', becoming a reporter with the newspaper's original editorial team, before working her way up to news editor, then assistant editor. She was known from then until 1996 for several investigative pieces, including on deaths in police custody and street drugs in London.〔Swithinbank, Tessa. (''Coming Up from the Streets: The Story of The Big Issue'' ). Earthscan, 2001, pp. 51, 70, 74, 96, 258. *Clifton, Helen. ("Still coming up from the streets" ), ''The Journalist'', June/July 2011, p. 14. *Rogers, Simon and Brooks, Xan. ("A decade on the streets" ), ''The Guardian'', 10 September 2001.〕 Tessa Swithinbank writes that Johnston was headhunted by ''The Observer'' in 1996 as a result of her ability to work with the kinds of sources few journalists were able to access.〔 After several years with ''The Observer'' as a staff reporter, she joined the ''Sunday Express'' investigations team in 2001, later becoming health editor. She has conducted undercover investigations for the newspaper, including one in 2001 where she took a job as a care assistant in Lynde House, a nursing home owned by Westminster Health Care, which was headed by Chai Patel. Her story was highly critical of the treatment the elderly residents were receiving; Patel, at the time a government adviser on care of the elderly, later sold the company and resigned from his government post.〔Johnston, Lucy. ("Shame care tsar to run 250 homes" ), ''Sunday Express'', 31 July 2011. *("Elderly People (Long-Term Care)" ), House of Commons, 16 October 2001.〕 She has also campaigned in the ''Express'' to highlight the treatment of people with mental-health problems, and has written articles opposing the requirement that pensioners pay for medical treatment while in nursing homes.〔For example, see: *Johnston, Lucy. ("Matron's army to tackle elderly abuse in our hospitals" ), ''Sunday Express'', 20 February 2011. *Johnston, Lucy and Ashworth, Roddy. ("The abuse shame past of crisis-hit Southern Cross" ), ''Sunday Express'', 5 June 2011. *Johnston, Lucy. ("Crusade for better mental health: NHS dishes out chemical coshes to the elderly" ), ''Sunday Express'', 20 May 2012.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lucy Johnston」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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