Packer Forbes has been providing high quality communications programmes, specifically engineered for the UK market, for over 18 years. There have been significant changes in the healthcare environment during this time, but it has always been a huge priority for us to ensure our communications approach is fresh and bespoke and our in-house knowledge better than most. This ensures we are preferred suppliers of specialist UK communications consultancy to a large number of UK-based pharmaceutical companies.
A top priority for us is to ensure the whole team is trained on the ABPI / PMPA Code as soon as possible when they start with us; all staff attend an annual in-house ABPI / PMCPA Code and NHS Update training sessions and, in addition, we are registered users of the Wellard’s Academy; a regularly updated on-line NHS information and educational resource.
The in-house CONNECT Access committee ensures the whole Packer Forbes team is kept up-to-date on changes in the NHS plus key environmental changes and their potential impact on communications activities.
Our CONNECT Media committee ensures our UK media contacts are current and live and that key journalists respect Packer Forbes’s ability to deliver real and appropriately packaged news in a format they find easy to report on. Our free, annual CONNECT ‘hot topics’ workshop for healthcare journalists has developed a genuine following over the years and there’s always a waiting list!
Our tactical services include:
- Media relations
- Consumer awareness programmes
- Patient group liaison and development of patient materials
- Website development
- Key external expert development
- Advisory and round table meetings
- Congress satellite meetings
- New media
- Internal communications
- Senior strategic consultancy
