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Exclusive: Porter Novelli appoints second-in-command to UK healthcare team
Amber Tovey, former managing director, health, at Burson Marsteller, has been appointed business director of Porter Novelli's health team in London, the agency told PRWeek.
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People with rare diseases step forward in awareness campaign
People with little-known conditions and diseases are the focus of pharma company Takeda's 'I am Number 17' campaign to raise awareness that one in 17 Britons will be affected by a rare condition.
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Exclusive: Former parliamentary aide joins WA Communications
Lisa Townsend, a former senior parliamentary assistant to Conservative MP James Morris, has been appointed as a director at WA Communications.
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Cash bonus as BritainThinks marks transfer to employee ownership
Employees at strategic insight consultancy BritainThinks have been given a one-off cash bonus of £1,000 this month, to mark the agency's decision to transfer ownership of its business to its 50 staff.
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'New blood' required as LGcomms chair announces decision to step down
Simon Jones is to step down as chair of LGcomms in April, to make way for "new blood" to lead the association of local government comms leaders.
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Competition is GREAT: Agencies vie for multimillion-pound government contract
One of the government's single biggest comms and marketing contracts has been put out to tender, with a reported £10m-a-year fee on offer to the successful agency.
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Battle lines drawn between activists and police in comms war
A series of highly damaging comms blunders by counter-terror police in treating environmental movement Extinction Rebellion (XR) as a potential threat have exposed fundamental differences in the approaches taken by the comms teams on both sides.
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Google poaches Microsoft public affairs specialist
Google has appointed Tom Morrison-Bell, a former government affairs manager for Microsoft, as its government affairs and public policy manager.
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Loyal FCO press officer rewarded with MBE
Davina Crole, one of the government's longest-serving press officers, has been awarded an MBE for "services to British foreign policy".
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Government comms chief suspended in bullying row
Kirsty Buchanan, director of comms at the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, and a former Number 10 adviser, has been suspended amid allegations of bullying, it has emerged.
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Exclusive: Health bosses channel 50s B-movies for pharmacist campaign
What look like old B-movie posters are the visuals at the heart of an NHS campaign, launching next week, to persuade millions of Britons to visit their local pharmacist for medical advice.
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NHS media manager moves to nursing charity
Aysha Awan, who led on the press and PR campaign to mark the 70th anniversary of the NHS, has left the public sector to become director of comms, marketing and events at the Florence Nightingale Foundation.
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Optimum hires senior staffer from Citigate Dewe Rogerson
Shabnam Bashir has been appointed associate director at healthcare agency Optimum Strategic Communications, the agency has announced.
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Heartfelt, grudging or unreserved: The PR apologies of 2019
When it comes to the business of owning up to mistakes or bad behaviour, there are many ways of expressing regret - but some more genuine and heartfelt than others.
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Eight public sector campaigns we liked in 2019
Here is PRWeek's entirely subjective take on the eight public sector campaigns that stood out for all the right reasons over the past year.
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NHS Digital exchange programme for comms professionals returns
NHS Digital's comms team has relaunched its Shadow Me exchange programme in response to increased demand.
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Tesco Bank invests in ex-Standard Life comms chief to lead public affairs
Barry Cameron, former head of comms at Standard Life Assurance, has been named head of media relations and public affairs at Tesco Bank.
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Incoming Supreme Court president spells out comms challenges facing courts
Effective communication is vital in building trust in the legal process, according to Lord Robert Reed, who will become President of the UK Supreme Court next month.
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Exclusive: Higginson Strategy hires senior Lib Dem aide
Sir Vince Cable's former chief of staff, Alex Davies, has been appointed associate director at boutique public affairs agency Higginson Strategy.
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Pharma comms needs to reinvent itself to stay relevant, says new report
Pharma risks losing its influence unless comms teams take risks and radically change the way they work, according to a new report by the Healthcare Communications Association (HCA) and specialist healthcare comms consultancy 90TEN.
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