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01  Journalist · BBC · A&E & ambulance response

Alastair Fee, portrait

Photo: LinkedIn

Journalist

Alastair Fee

BBC and 1 other title

Articles read per month · health & social care
Dec 2025Jan 2026FebMarAprMayJuneJulyAugSeptOctNovto date

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Bylines read on 6 topics since 11 Dec 2025 · latest 12 Nov 2026

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  • BBC
  • bbc.com

This counts only pieces our coverage scan read on the topics Vital Signs tracks, not their full output.

Alastair Fee: key facts

Main title
BBC
Press coverage
Bylined in the pressby our coverage scan, not their full output
Most recently read
12 Nov 2026
First read
11 Dec 2025

03  Beat

What Alastair Fee covers

How we found the articles by Alastair Fee we read: we searched news for these terms, by topic. Terms for 6 topics

A&E & ambulance response

  • A&E waiting times
  • A&E department
  • accident and emergency
  • ambulance response times
  • ambulance handover
  • ambulance waiting
  • ambulance service
  • emergency department

Also searched with “A&E waiting times” in each of 8 national papers, and in the Guardian by editor tag, and in trade press by category. Every term for A&E & ambulance response

NHS waiting lists

  • NHS waiting list
  • waiting list
  • elective waiting times
  • elective recovery
  • elective backlog
  • waiting list backlog
  • referral to treatment
  • RTT

Also searched with “NHS waiting list” in each of 8 national papers, and in the Guardian by editor tag. Every term for NHS waiting lists

Cancer

  • cancer
  • cancer treatment
  • cancer screening
  • cancer waiting times
  • oncology
  • chemotherapy
  • radiotherapy
  • cancer diagnosis

Also searched with “cancer” in each of 8 national papers, and in the Guardian by editor tag, and in trade press by category. Every term for Cancer

Children's health

  • children's health
  • paediatric
  • child health
  • children's hospital
  • infant mortality

Also searched with “children's health” in each of 8 national papers, and in the Guardian by editor tag, and in trade press by category. Every term for Children's health

Long Covid

  • long covid
  • post-covid syndrome
  • long-haul covid
  • ME/CFS
  • chronic fatigue syndrome
  • post-viral
  • long covid clinic

Also searched with “long covid” in each of 8 national papers, and in the Guardian by editor tag. Every term for Long Covid

Hospital discharge / bed-blocking

  • hospital discharge
  • delayed discharge
  • bed blocking
  • bed-blocking
  • discharge to assess
  • delayed transfers of care
  • discharge delays
  • step-down care

Also searched with “hospital discharge” in each of 8 national papers, and in the Guardian by editor tag, and in trade press by category. Every term for Hospital discharge / bed-blocking

04  Who they quote

Who Alastair Fee calls

Voices credited in their pieces. A reporter who has called someone before is likely to call them again.

  1. Michael GriksaitisClinician
  2. Carla LangtonClinician
  3. David Constable-PhelpsClinician
  4. Dr Ewan EvansClinician
  5. Helen YoungClinician
  6. Tracy WhaleClinician
  7. Louise FoxSector leader
  8. Sue NormanAcademic
  9. Rakesh KucheriaClinician

Bylines and quoted sources are read automatically from UK coverage of the topics Vital Signs tracks, so this page reflects what our scan has read rather than a complete record. Where a biography appears, it is published by the outlet itself about its own correspondent, and linked above. Photographs come from the outlet’s own byline or author page, or from the journalist’s LinkedIn profile, and each is credited under the picture. Social accounts are not held: asserting an unverified one would attach a real person to an account that might not be theirs. See the methodology, or email contact@bridgeheadcommunications.com to correct anything on it.