Healthcomms Consulting is an expert, responsive communications agency that delivers a personalised and impactful service. Our goal is to make a difference for all our clients.
You are probably familiar with recent tensions around the supply of vaccines for Covid 19 and the EU’s attempts to secure supply. Those of you who spent Friday night having a hard-earned glass of wine and watching a movie, before sleeping in on Saturday (and why not) might well have missed quite a significant diplomatic incident that came and went over the course of about 12 hours.
PB Consulting has rebranded as ‘Healthcomms Consulting’. With a new leadership team in place, the rebrand heralds a new age for the organisation.
Tomas Morel, Associate Director, Healthcomms Consulting, argues that the health and care landscape will remain just as fluid in an action-packed 2021.
Healthcomms Consulting’s Ben Rowden discusses how COVID-19 might yet cause a more divided Parliament and unleash new regional alliances.
Melissa Barnett, Deputy Managing Director, Healthcomms Consulting, gives her take on the growing significance of Integrated Care Systems within the UK health and care system.
Peter Hand, Account Director at Healthcomms Consulting, lends his perspective to social care reform.
Hernia repair is one of the most common procedures performed by the NHS. 80,000 inguinal hernia operations are performed on the NHS each year. Hernias can be painful and debilitating for people living with them.
There are around 367,000 cases of cancer every year. Cancer treatment continues to advance with new treatments and therapies regularly becoming available. The Cancer Drugs Fund was launched in 2011 to give patients access to innovative cancer drugs that might not otherwise be available on the NHS.
Increasing patient demand and slower growth in budgets has required the NHS to make tough decisions on the treatment options available to individual patients. Over time this has led to huge regional disparities as local commissioners have set their own criteria for patient eligibility for treatment.
The All-Party Parliamentary Group on Obesity calls for Government action to solve the ongoing obesity crisis in the UK, through prioritisation of prevention and treatment for people living with obesity.
Healthcomms UK worked with Insightec to change a draft research only recommendation from NICE regarding guidance of Unilateral MRI-guided focused ultrasound (MRgFUS) thalamotomy for treatment-resistant essential tremor.
Healthcomms Consulting worked with Ottobock to ensure that NHS England gave patients access to life changing microprocessor knees technology through the specialised commissioning process. Following the campaign, NHS England now have a commissioning policy that gives widespread access to microprocessor knees.
Healthcomms Consulting led a campaign with the UK Sepsis Trust to place sepsis at the top of the Government’s priority list. This culminated in an announcement from Jeremy Hunt stating that sepsis was a national priority and he would launch a commissioning lever.
Ruptured AAAs are known to kill around 5,000 people every year in the UK. To prevent an aneurysm rupturing, the existing guidance had stated that a treatment option known as EVAR should be available to all patients.
Healthcomms Consulting go above and beyond. Their expertise is beyond question, but the service is so much more… in a small space of time we have achieved policy change and influence far beyond our expectations – almost more than we would even have hoped to image. Healthcomms Consulting’s passion for and belief in our campaign is palpable”
Dr Ron Daniels BEM
This is the best agency we have worked with because they get results. Innovative; responsive to client’s needs; listen; efficient; do all this in a very open, logical and pleasant way
Barbara Harpham, Medical Technology Group
Healthcomms Consulting are part of the team and demonstrate their political knowledge and support on a regular basis.
Sue Farringdon Smith, Brain Tumour Research
Healthcomms Consulting are the best operators in Westminster.
Richard Deveraux Phillips, Association of British Healthcare Industries
