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01  Journalist · BBC · NHS waiting lists

Owain Clarke: no photograph is held, so their initials are shown instead.
Journalist

Owain Clarke

BBC and 2 other titles

Articles read per month · health & social care
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Bylines read on 4 topics since 13 Jan 2026 · latest 25 Oct 2026

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  • BBC
  • BBC Wales
  • bbc.com

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

02  Writes on · 4 of 29 topics

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Owain Clarke: key facts

Main title
BBC
Covers
NHS waiting lists, A&E & ambulance response, Health inequalitiesand 1 more
Press coverage
Bylined in the pressby our coverage scan, not their full output
Most recently read
25 Oct 2026
First read
13 Jan 2026

03  Beat

What Owain Clarke covers

How we found the articles by Owain Clarke we read: we searched news for these terms, by topic. Terms for 4 topics

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

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

Health inequalities

  • health inequalities
  • health disparities
  • health inequality
  • deprivation and health
  • healthy life expectancy
  • life expectancy gap
  • levelling up health
  • social determinants of health

Also searched with “health inequalities” in each of 8 national papers. Every term for Health inequalities

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

04  Who they quote

Who Owain Clarke calls

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

  1. Medwin HughesAcademic
  2. Jonathan ScourfieldAcademic
  3. Zoe Morgan-PittardClinician
  4. Darren PanniersRegulator
  5. Leanne WatkinsRegulator
  6. Seema SrivastavaClinician
  7. Lorna LearClinician
  8. Owain ChandlerClinician
  9. Dr Sian WilliamsAcademic
  10. Sam Taylor-HarleyClinician
  11. Darren HughesSector leader
  12. Nicola WilliamsSector leader
  13. Dr Chineze IvensoClinician
  14. Dr Dana BeasleyClinician
  15. Dr Lizzy NickersonClinician

05  The record

Recent articles

  1. 25 Oct 2026
    Grange Hospital deemed 'dangerous' online but staff call it safest in Wales

    BBCA&E & ambulance response

  2. 4 Oct 2026
    Welsh men dying too young sparks call for a men's health strategy

    bbc.comHealth inequalities

  3. 18 Sept 2026
    Rise in people waiting for NHS treatment for fourth month in a row

    BBCNHS waiting lists

  4. 10 Sept 2026
    Wales risks raising one of the unhealthiest generations in decades, doctors warn

    BBCChildren's health

  5. 2 Sept 2026
    Follow-up appointments scrapped in NHS waiting lists plan

    BBCNHS waiting lists

  6. 23 Apr 2026
    NHS Wales misses waiting lists targets ahead of Senedd election

    BBCNHS waiting lists

  7. 22 Apr 2026
    Welsh NHS likely to miss waiting lists target ahead of crucial election

    BBC WalesNHS waiting lists

  8. 29 Mar 2026
    North Wales NHS is 'dire' - how can political parties fix Betsi?

    bbc.comNHS waiting lists

  9. 13 Jan 2026
    Betsi Cadwaladr: Thousands of patients not counted on waiting list data

    BBC WalesNHS waiting lists

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.