Unity handed global PR brief for ‘Kiss Goodbye to MS’ campaign
Multiple Sclerosis International Federation has hired Unity to help strengthen its “Kiss Goodbye to MS” campaign worldwide. The socially-led “Kiss Goodbye to MS” campaign [...]
60 Seconds with Rebecca Rhodes, Virgo Health and Golin Health
Rebecca Rhodes, chief creative officer for Virgo Health and Golin Health, talks to Gorkana about healthcare and the health and wellness trend, creative thinking and the best [...]
Virgo Health makes digital and design hires
Virgo Health, the Golin partner and healthcare communications firm, has appointed Nicole Burns as social strategist and Paul Andrews as head of design. Both Burns and Andrews [...]
Onyx Health announces three new hires
Healthcare marketing comms agency Onyx Health has boosted its team in the North East through the appointment of three new hires. Trevor Pill, formerly marketing and design [...]
Four Communications strengthens healthcare group with acquisition of Packer Forbes
Four Communications Group today (5 July 2016) announced the acquisition of independent healthcare comms consultancy Packer Forbes. Packer Forbes provides PR, medical [...]
Apprentice winner chooses Positive Communications
Dr Leah Totton, winner of the BBC TV series The Apprentice in 2013, has hired Positive Communications to handle her PR. After winning The Apprentice in 2013, Totton, already a [...]
Red Door’s Kate Aldous joins Lansons to boost health offer
Lansons has enhanced its healthcare team with the appointment of Red Door Unlimited’s Kate Aldous as an associate director. Aldous has been briefed to bolster Lansons’ [...]
St Giles Trust appoints Hume Brophy
St Giles Trust, a charity helping ex-offenders and disadvantaged people to move their lives forward, has appointed Hume Brophy as it expands into healthcare. The charity is [...]
UDG Healthcare buys Pegasus for £16.8m
Brighton-based healthcare comms specialist Pegasus has been acquired by UDG Healthcare, a FTSE 250 listed international provider of outsourced healthcare services, for £16.8 [...]
Why healthcare PR is more important than ever
Ruth Wheatley, account director at firstlight PR, tells us how opportunities in PR have been created by the need for expertise in highly regulated and specialist sectors like [...]
Portland hires Dr Brendan Murphy as director
Portland has hired Dr Brendan Murphy as a director to establish and grow its medical education offering. Murphy will be part of the health management team. He joins Portland [...]
GCI Health launches ‘The ZEST Project’ to find top talent
GCI Health has launched The ZEST Project for the second year in a row as it looks to attract the UK’s top graduate talent. Applications for The ZEST Project open today and [...]
John Gisborne joins FleishmanHillard Fishburn
FleishmanHillard Fishburn has appointed MHP’s former MD and head of global health, John Gisborne, as MD of its healthcare team. Gisborne joins FleishmanHillard Fishburn’s [...]
H+K London Healthcare boosts Content+Publishing approach
Hill + Knowlton Strategies (H+K) Chicago’s Jessi Langsen has joined the agency’s London office to lead the Content + Publishing approach for its Healthcare sector business. [...]
Kindred promotes first non-invasive pre-natal test
Diagnostics company Premaitha Health has handed Kindred a consumer PR brief to promote its flagship product, the IONA test, which is the first non-invasive pre-natal test to [...]
Coloplast briefs Stand Agency on “taboo” health subject
Coloplast has appointed Stand Agency to deliver a campaign to “get the nation talking” about the subject of constipation. Coloplast specialises in providing [...]
Allergy Therapeutics hands retained brief to Consilium
Speciality pharma company Allergy Therapeutics has hired Consilium Strategic Communications as its international financial PR and investor relations adviser. The London-listed [...]
Consilium advises on pharma company IPO
Consilium Strategic Communications is advising pharma business Shield Therapeutics on its proposed listing on London’s AIM market, following the company’s recent [...]