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# Resources - Use the media - or create your own
- URL: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/resources-use-media-or-create-your-own/
- Published: 2013-12-10T09:12:52.000Z
- Updated: 2026-04-23T00:12:32.000Z
- Description: If the mainstream media has let us down with it's NHS reporting, what can we do about it? Part of the OurNHS Resource Guide.
- Author: OurNHS
- Tags: Resources , #Migrated, #en, #Import 2026-04-09 16:46, #appended-excerpt

[Contribute](https://www.opendemocracy.net/ournhs/submit) \- Write for OurNHS openDemocracy.

Write press releases or create your own media - see the [TUC Guide](http://www.tuc.org.uk/sites/default/files/tucfiles/nhs%5Fcampaign%5Fguide%5F2013.pdf?ref=opendemocracy.net) p18, p26-27, and ideas for taking newsworthy action on p p22-25.

Leaflet on the streets, at stalls, at meetings or outside health centres and hospitals - the [TUC guide](http://www.tuc.org.uk/industrial-issues/public-sector/all-together-nhs/nhs-campaigners-guide?ref=opendemocracy.net) has ideas for creating your own leaflets, or use this excellent and colourful '[mythbuster](http://konpoxfordshire.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/keep-our-nhs-public-myth-buster.pdf?ref=opendemocracy.net)' leaflet produced by Oxford Keep Our NHS Public.

[‘The New NHS - what it means for journalists’](http://helpmeinvestigate.com/health/2013/04/22/the-new-nhs-what-it-means-for-journalists/?ref=opendemocracy.net#more-863) \- tips for those who want to write about the NHS

[Tell](https://www.opendemocracy.net/ournhs/ournhs/bbc-wants-to-hear-from-you) the BBC what you think of its NHS coverage - current consultation runs til 13 December.

[‘How the BBC betrayed the NHS’](https://www.opendemocracy.net/ourbeeb/oliver-huitson/how-bbc-betrayed-nhs-exclusive-report-on-two-years-of-censorship-and-distorti) \- openDemocracy report by Oliver Huitson on 2 years of censorship and distortion.

***Help keep independent campaigning journalism alive - please donate to OurNHS*** [***here***](https://www.opendemocracy.net/ournhs/donate) ***so that we can keep covering the NHS stories that matter.***

If the mainstream media has let us down with it's NHS reporting, what can we do about it? Part of the [OurNHS Resource Guide.](https://www.opendemocracy.net/ournhs/ournhs/brand-new-ournhs-guide-to-nhs-campaign-resources)