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2020’s been a year of rapid adaptation. I’ll be honest, back in March I couldn’t immediately see how we could carry on doing what we do if we couldn’t interact face to face. So much of effective collaboration is physical and sensory – we huddle round flipcharts and...

Essentially, healthcare communications is about how we get health messages across to an audience. Or, as the Healthcare Communications Association puts it, ‘healthcare communications professionals are specialists in delivering health related messages, in many...

Stakeholder relationships are the engine behind any business plan. It’s conjecture without them.

Your success in 2020 will depend on three things: delivering value, managing risk, and managing relationships with stakeholders.

The ABPI have updated their Joint Working Toolkit. It simplifies and clarifies the process.

In a complex healthcare environment, working together is the only way to get better. Few would disagree that effective collaboration can make a real difference, especially for patients.

Last month, we ran a meeting on joint working between industry and the NHS that benefits patients.

I spent a week in a stuffy swimming pool in Sheffield last month. Following years of poolside instruction, I had completed a tough training course, passed a written exam and practical assessment and can now call myself a British Swimming Referee.

After a year and a half exploring the world, it felt like it was time to find a worthwhile career. Enter Dovetail, a patient-centred agency that specialises in collaboration between pharmaceutical companies and the NHS.

There’s some way to go before pharma companies are routinely seen by the general public as heroes rather than villains, so recent data showing that trust in pharma has moderately improved has been welcomed by the ABPI.

This month I’ve been reflecting on leadership in the run up to a course. What is leadership?

With the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) on the horizon, the Cambridge Analytica scandal has provided a stark reminder of the importance of data protection laws.