NHS Employers is encouraging senior leaders and chief executives within the health service to use social media through an online campaign and 'how to' guide.
The APPC is widening its membership to in-house public affairs specialists in a bid to head off the possible introduction of a statutory lobby register limited to agencies.
Education Secretary Michael Gove was discovered to have based a claim of 'disturbing historical ignorance' among teenagers in an article he wrote for The Mail on Sunday in March partly on statistics from PR surveys by Premier Inn and UKTV Gold.
Westminster Advisers has hired an associate director and two account directors after a strategic review and amid other staff departures.
The PRCA's Digital Group has nearly doubled its membership to 13 after recruiting six new people.
The newly created Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has appointed a head of news and media as it seeks to show it is 'making a difference'.
Contact the Elderly has brought in Stand Agency to provide a two-year programme of comms support ahead of its 50th anniversary celebrations in 2015.
Tim Allan, the managing director of Portland Communications and former press adviser to Tony Blair, has criticised the way David Cameron sold his Big Society concept as a 'poor example of effective political communication'.
The first PR apprentices to work in central government will join the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) within the next five weeks.
UKIP is drawing up plans to bolster its 'shoestring' comms set-up in the wake of a landmark local election performance that brought the party into the cross-hairs of its larger rivals.