At Weber Shandwick Healthcare, we have made it our business to harness the power of advocacy. We’re committed to giving every client what they truly need – a legion of believers, supporters and allies that can help move businesses, brands and ideas forward.

Our client relationships – global, regional and national – are rooted in openness, honesty and trust. Our strategic insight, exceptional creativity and commitment to service excellence allow us to consistently exceed expectations.

We build our teams based on the needs of your business, drawing upon specialist expertise beyond traditional public relations, to ensure we deliver SMART outcomes and proven return on investment. We apply our experience to deliver targeted programmes that capitalise on the changing healthcare environment, while taking into account the scrutiny facing the healthcare communications industry.

Our approach builds upon what we do every day, serving as advocates for our clients and their businesses. Weber Shandwick Healthcare – advocacy starts here.

In-house expertise

Global, regional and national programmes for pharmaceutical, medical device, nutrition, biotech and corporate including disease awareness, product positioning, switches, patient advocacy, consumer healthcare, professional relations, medical education, media relations and public policy.

Our team of scientists, PHDs and medical writers can provide expert high science input into a range of integrated communications programmes, enabling us to apply distinct scientific messages and content to a range of stakeholders.

As part of the team we have healthcare public affairs specialists (PA) who can provide services from basic monitoring to full campaigns in Westminster, Edinburgh, Cardiff and Brussels. This allows us to provide a truly unified PR and PA strategy that many clients find invaluable in the current UK healthcare market.

Opportunities

We welcome opportunities to apply our insight-driven approach and deliver demonstrable return on investment to clients facing new challenges in healthcare communications, in any of the following areas:

• Allergy and auto-immune
• Cardiovascular disease
• Compliance and concordance
• Dermatology
• Gastro-intestinal health
• Immunology
• Infectious disease
• Neurology
• Not-for-profit
• Nutrition
• Oncology
• Ophthalmology
• POM-to-P switches
• Public health
• Urology and sexual health 
• Women’s health

Awards/News

Communiqué Awards:                                                   
2009 Winner Best Healthcare Policy Campaign
2008 Winner Best Global Medical Education Programme
2008 Finalist Best Use of Meetings & Congresses
2008 Finalist Writing Excellence: Professional Materials
2007 Finalist Best International PR Campaign
2007 Finalist Best UK Media Relations Campaign

PRWeek Awards:
2007 Highly Commended Finalist Healthcare: Public Affairs
2007 Finalist Healthcare: Ethical & OTC Consumer
2006 Finalist Specialist Consultancy of the Year

IABC Gold Quill Awards:
2006 Winner Excellence in International Communications

IPRA Golden World Awards:
2008 Finalist Event Management
2008 Finalist Healthcare Campaign
2008 Finalist NGO Campaign

Holmes Report:
2006 Winner European Consultancy of the Year 

European SABRE Awards:
2008 Finalist Pan-European Programme
2007 Finalist Multi-country Programme