by Claire Munro | Sep 6, 2021 | News
The IBD Registry in conjunction with Dovetail took home the Agility and Flexibility award at last week’s Communiqué Awards, held at the Grosvenor House in London. The entry focused on a patient-friendly self-assessment risk tool to reassure patients with inflammatory...
by Claire Munro | Jul 22, 2021 | Articles, News
Summer’s upon us and I’m sure that many of us feel like we’ve never needed our holidays more. But there’s always loads to do before we can relax, including creating an advisory board. One of the big pre-holiday questions is: do you try and squeeze in as much as you...
by Claire Munro | Jun 29, 2021 | Articles, News
I’m relieved to see that Government plans to force GPs in England to hand over all patient data to NHS Digital this month have been pushed back till the autumn. Under the General Practice Data for Planning and Research (GPDPR) initiative, ten years’ worth of...
by Claire Munro | May 24, 2021 | News
Engaging with important stakeholders remotely isn’t easy, but by combining the tech with empathy, we can use it to build the foundations of positive relationships. Good connections with key opinion leaders and stakeholders are essential if we’re to understand the...
by Claire Munro | May 18, 2021 | Articles
As World IBD Day approaches, IBD UK’s new report reflects the experience of over 10,000 people with Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis, and 72% of IBD services in the UK. Ongoing research now suggests that more than 500,000 people in the UK have inflammatory bowel...
by Claire Munro | Mar 29, 2021 | Articles, News
The recent Healthcare Communications Association (HCA) conference keynote on data visualisation from David McCandless still has me thinking! With so much information around us, we need all the help we can get to effectively communicate complex ideas. Data...
by Claire Munro | Mar 23, 2021 | Articles, News
DOVETAIL PARTNERS WITH TILLOTTS AG TO MAP MANAGEMENT OF C DIFFICILE INFECTION IN EUROPE Specialist stakeholder engagement consultancy Dovetail, based in London, UK, have announced a new partnership with Tillotts Pharma AG to support the launch of Tillotts’ recent...
by Claire Munro | Mar 15, 2021 | Articles, News
The recording of the local parish council meeting that had descended into bad-tempered chaos is the the Zoom facilitator’s nightmare: people with their camera off, and still shouting, people talking over each other, and even talking over the meeting facilitator,...
by Claire Munro | Nov 30, 2020 | Articles, News
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...
by Claire Munro | Nov 15, 2020 | Articles, News
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...
