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Purpose Awards EMEA 2020: Healthcare winners
The winners of this year's Purpose Awards EMEA – from PRWeek, Campaign and Third Sector – have been revealed. Here we round up all the winning campaigns with a healthcare dimension.
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Ex-Portland health chief makes statement of intent with agency launch
Portland’s former health chief, Dr Jane Brearley, has announced the launch of her diversity-focused agency Intent Health, PRWeek can exclusively reveal.
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Keir Starmer: Public affairs pros give verdicts on the first online-only party-leader conference speech in history
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer got his moment in the ‘spotlight’ today when he gave his keynote speech to the party’s annual conference.
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COVID-19 briefing: How can healthcare comms help the public make sense of the science?
The Government’s top scientific advisers delivered a sobering assessment of the likely rise in coronavirus cases during a televised Downing Street briefing yesterday.
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Former Packer Forbes MD joins virtual health agency
Joella Melville, a former managing director at Packer Forbes, has been appointed as a senior director at 67Health, a year after the virtual agency was established.
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TikTok chooses agencies for six-figure policy and public affairs briefs
Social-media platform TikTok has appointed Headland and Stonehaven to provide policy comms and public affairs functions, respectively, PRWeek has learned.
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Specialist agency director joins UCAS to lead strategy and public affairs
Education specialist John Cope has left his deputy director job at consultancy Public First to take up the role of director of strategy, policy and public affairs by the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS).
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The roots of racism at work – is discrimination today a legacy of slavery?
PRWeek speaks to experts about the history of racism in the UK, to provide background and foster better understanding of the context before we consider how this prejudice manifests itself in the comms sector.
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News outlet threatens legal action over MoD ‘blacklisting’ as Europe issues media freedom alert
A media outlet has engaged a legal firm after it was effectively blacklisted by the Ministry of Defence – a move that prompted a ‘media freedom alert’ from the Council of Europe.
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Government launches campaign to reduce winter COVID-19 spike
The Government has stepped up efforts to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in the lead-up to winter with the launch of a public information campaign urging people to continue to wash their hands, wear a mask and practice social distancing.
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Contracts without competition: a reputational blow for the public affairs industry?
The award of lucrative government contracts to public affairs and political comms agencies with links to Dominic Cummings and senior Conservatives without a competitive tender process since the pandemic arrived in the UK is not an isolated occurrence.
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Hanbury defends award of government contracts without competition
Hanbury Strategy has defended its being awarded lucrative government contracts through the use of emergency provisions that enable public sector institutions to appoint suppliers without a competitive tender process.
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Five ‘lockdown’ consumer healthcare audiences – and how to communicate with them
A consumer healthcare report that has identified five audiences to emerge since COVID-19 arrived in the UK shows how hygiene, mental wellness and self-care have risen sharply up the agenda.
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Flop of the Month: Williamson’s exams fiasco is another reputational blow for Government
There comes a point when there have been so many U-turns that the Government is perceived by the public to be travelling in reverse.
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Tin Man wins anti-piracy brief targeting young people
Tin Man Communications has won the delivery of a Government-backed anti-piracy campaign on behalf of the creative industries, following a competitive four-stage pitch.
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Cancer Research UK's comms and public affairs chief announces departure for charity CEO role
Sarah Woolnough, executive director of policy and information at CRUK, is leaving the charity after 15 years to become chief executive of the Asthma UK and British Lung Foundation partnership.
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Pharma APPG invites bids for secretariat services including comms
Parliament's All-Party Pharmacy Group (APPG) has put out to tender the provision of secretariat services for engagement, comms, policy research and event management.
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Devon PR firm bucks trend by opening London office
West Country PR agency RAW has bucked the trend of flight from the capital during the pandemic by opening a new office in London.
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Parliamentary group’s COVID-19 inquiry appoints comms chief
Former Clarion and 3 Monkeys head of news Howard Bowden has been picked to lead comms for a cross-party group of MPs holding a rapid inquiry into the government’s handling of the pandemic.
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Hong Kong police put spotlight on UK lobbying firm for pro-democracy work following arrests
A UK lobbyist’s work on behalf of campaign organisation ‘Fight for Freedom, Stand with Hong Kong’ (SWHK) calling for sanctions has led to a raft of arrests, following the imposition of draconian security laws in the former British colony at the end of June.
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