Our approach

Our approach

Partner with us through your challenges

We offer a full MedComms consultancy service. Tell us what your challenge is and we’ll identify opportunities, propose solutions and design a roadmap to achieve your goals.

Hidden factors may be influencing your challenge – that’s why standard solutions often fall short. Our approach embraces creative thinking to develop effective, tailored solutions:

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We get to the root of the challenge by uncovering key insights about HCPs, patients, and payers.

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Next we develop robust strategies and engage your audiences with targeted initiatives that navigate the complexities of your brand and portfolio.

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Finally we evaluate outcomes, creating a continuous feedback loop to refine strategies and amplify success.

For every project, we allocate a dedicated senior team whose skills are matched to your specific needs

And thanks to our Europe-wide network, we can offer you these communications in all major European languages.

Discover how our services can solve your questions

Strategic planning 

Through our deep-dive insight gathering, we uncover opportunities to help you build and refine a cohesive road map to achieve your strategic goals. This provides a flexible framework for the initiatives that follow, shaping the conversations with HCPs, patients, payers, and internal audiences. We can deliver these through multiple channels, integrated to give joined-up communications for the most user-tailored audience experience. Your brand is poised for success. 

  • Omnichannel and multichannel communications plans
  • Strategic planning workshops
  • Mapping patient journeys
  • Brand storyboard and timeline
  • Positioning statement 
  • Brand manifesto
  • Key Performance Indicators and success measurement strategy

Insight gathering

Gathering insights on your therapy area from all your stakeholders, gives us a clear vision of your brand’s place in the market landscape and helps us spot anticipated trends. We assess your brand’s position within its market and how it can stand out from its competitors. From this, we develop compelling narratives on which to found new conversations with your stakeholders. 

  • Market landscape review
  • Patient focus groups
  • Unmet needs thematic analysis
  • Real World Evidence gathering on your brand
  • Expert opinions: In-depth 1:1 interviews
  • Advisory boards 
  • Competitor intelligence 
  • Social media listening

Launch & life cycle campaigns 

We’ll create a buzz around your brand through a full communications suite that provides everything you need for a successful campaign. We’ll help pave the way for your launch, raising awareness of unmet needs and preparing your internal sales and marketing teams to maximise your brand’s potential.

Post-launch, we can develop new connections, narratives, and conversations, shared through the most user-tailored channels, so you can continue to measure the growth of your brand throughout its life cycle. 

  • Stakeholder engagement platforms
  • Burden of disease reports
  • Disease awareness campaigns
  • Internal stakeholder training
  • Launch events
  • Media campaigns 

Expert mapping & engagement

We take expert mapping a step further than the standard approach. Whether you’re looking for established thought-leaders or the rising stars of the future, our novel profiling methodology ensures that you engage with the right stakeholders in your target therapeutic community.

A unique solution to meet all your advice-seeking needs, our Interactive Stakeholder Tool for Engagement Platform (iSTEP) is one of our most popular services in today’s pharma digital space. It allows you to engage directly with all stakeholders in real- or asynchronous-time for an instant snap-shot or the long-view of the impact of your activities – anytime, anywhere, on any device.

  • Consensus development
  • Clinical recommendations
  • Virtual advisory boards
  • Longitudinal or ‘snap shot’ Insight gathering

Patient advocacy & communications

Patient power is increasingly recognised as a driving force in medicine, and we believe passionately in representing the voice of the patient, carer, and family, both internally and externally. We can support you in giving that voice to your patient population through our engagement tools, designed to achieve improved patient-physician experiences and patient outcomes.

One of our core strengths is developing communications that meet patients’ needs and interests.

  • Patient focus groups, patient advisory boards
  • Patient surveys
  • PAG profiling and partnerships
  • Patient-clinician symposia
  • Plain language summaries
  • Patient websites
  • Patient leaflets, newsletters, magazines
  • Disease awareness and allowed product-related communications

Events

Successful events reflect successful clients. Our Events team leaves no stone unturned; our meticulous attention to detail and technical know-how will smooth out any bumps in the road to ensure the success of your event, whether large or small, online, F2F or hybrid.

  • Pre, peri and post event management
  • Advisory boards
  • Steering committee meetings
  • Symposia
  • Webinars
  • Patient focus groups
  • Expert round tables

Medical education

Crisp, clear and concise content for health professionals is the key to getting your messages out there. Bite-sized text and creative interactive engagement are increasingly popular among busy HCPs when it comes to educational content. After all, it must grasp and hold the attention of your audience if it is to have maximum impact. And we know exactly how to deliver this, thanks to our backgrounds in medical journalism and medical writing. 

  • Digital peer-to-peer facilitated engagement
  • Plain language summaries (HCPs, patients, policy-makers)
  • Interactive videos and pdfs
  • Websites, podcasts, apps
  • Speaker support, slide decks
  • Burden of disease reports
  • Brochures, detail aids
  • Conference reports 

Internal training & coaching

Update your marketing and in-field teams with scientific insights, and equip them with the knowledge and skills to interact confidently and effectively with your external audiences.

  • E-learning manuals
  • Animations and interactive videos
  • Role play
  • Cross franchise knowledge sharing
  • Training presentations
  • News bulletins, journal club
  • Detail aids 

Publications management

We offer a full strategic publication management service and development of peer review articles to underpin evidence-based medicine – all compliant with international Good Publication Practice (GPP).
Once in the public domain, we can maximise reach of the publication through a raft of complementary communications – all prepared in advance to render it a hot topic of conversation.

  • Target journal advice
  • Authorship and steering committees
  • Manuscript development
  • Abstracts, video abstracts
  • Publication explainer videos
  • Literature reviews
  • Plain language supplements
  • Posters

Data collection & thematic analysis 

We take your insight-gathering activities a step further. By thematic analysis of feedback from your key stakeholders we can help you be agile in shaping the opinion of your brand and responding to emerging patient management trends. Using our digital iSTEP   platform we can obtain a snapshot of current opinion or record how it changes over the long-term - thus providing a clear measure of the impact of your activities.

  • Literature reviews
  • Thematic analysis of stakeholder feedback
  • Expert opinions: in-depth 1:1 interviews
  • Advisory boards 
  • Competitor intelligence 
  • Social media listening

Creative & digital solutions

Bold, captivating and user-friendly creative ideas and digital enhancement bring your story to life and strengthen your messages. Our digital partners are bursting with ideas to help users understand, absorb, and engage with the information you’re sharing. Whether it’s high-impact branding or data sharing and visualisation, we have inspirational bespoke solutions for today’s audiences.

  • Digital engagement platforms, 'Deep Dive'
  • Animations
  • Videos, interactive videos
  • Interactive knowledge maps connecting evidence and insights
  • Interactive PDFs, infographics
  • Physical and virtual interactive exhibition stands

We'd love to hear from you

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