Public Sector: The Public Sector Week

prweek.com, Friday, 04 May 2012, 12:00am,

Oliver Finegold has joined the General Medical Council as media relations manager following five years in local government.

Finegold takes on the role having stepped down as head of media relations at Southwark Council.

Paul Inglefield has left his role as head of comms for Camden Council. Inglefield joined the Camden team six years ago, having previously been East Sussex County Council comms and marketing manager. His position is being filled on an interim basis by comms department heads within the team. Inglefield is understood to be seeking a role outside local government.

Visit East Anglia has called in Jungle Public Relations to handle its regional and national PR profile for Suffolk. Jungle won the brief following a competitive pitch.

Westminster CITY Council's director of comms and strategy Alex Aiken has written this week's public sector column on the London mayoral election. To read the column, go to prweek.com/uk and click on public sector.

The University of Portsmouth has launched an interactive news website. The site, port.ac.uk/uopnews, was developed by the university's comms team.