Ashfield shortlisted for five EVCOM Live awards
The EVCOM Live Awards are one of the most respected marks of excellence in the live and experiential industry. The reputation of the awards is built both on the high quality of submissions and the rigorous, independent and transparent judging process, which includes leading clients and industry professionals.
The first project was a collaborative solution that connected the services of Ashfield Meetings & Events and Ashfield Healthcare Communications to deliver the HIV Experience Exchange (HIVee) on behalf of our client, Janssen. The work has been shortlisted for three awards, including the Collaborative Event, Confere...
Source: Ashfield Healthcare News - November 2, 2016 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Ewan Jamieson Tags: Ashfield Source Type: news
Gavin Houston to present insights on medical meetings at pharmaceutical summit
Gavin’s session – Healthcare Professional (HCP) Research Survey Data On Medical Meeting Attendance – will focus on the role of meetings in the HCP’s learning journey and evaluate the evolving expectations of HCPs for attending medical meetings. It will derive data from the recent Future Of Meetings white paper commissioned by Ashfield that summarised physician perspectives on scientific meetings. Gavin will provide insights and understanding from our experience, highlighting how this effects the changing landscape of scientific meetings as well as summarising the future challenges this will represent for ph...
Source: Ashfield Healthcare News - October 27, 2016 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Ewan Jamieson Tags: Ashfield Source Type: news
Recognition of Ashfield Digital & Creative ’s entrepreneurial approach
One of the reasons we wanted to enter these particular awards was the criteria allow us to tell our story. And we have a great story to tell.
Over the last few years we have evolved as an agency; in fact we’d go as far as say that we’ve grown up. We look to deliver creative communications that make real world impacts and the award criteria demanded we showcase examples of this.
Getting to work on our submission
Sometimes submitting for awards can be a laborious affair but we actually had some fun writing our submission. We focused in on our successes, our lovely client work and some of the great stuff we’ve done for ...
Source: Ashfield Healthcare News - October 27, 2016 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Sarah Edwards Tags: Ashfield Source Type: news
Ashfield walks away with gold at EVCOM Clarion Awards
Ashfield won the top prize in the Conference (Screen) category for ‘A vision for the future: an AIDS-free generation’, the first in an emotive series for ViiV Healthcare which shares the stories of those who suffer most, but whose voices are heard least. In this piece the voices of children are the unifying creative concept from which we developed a narrative and creative; emblematic of childhood experience and a powerful way for adults to connect with the inner world of a child.
Speaking about the win, Ashfield Digital & Creative, Creative Director Jim Park said, “This win symbolises the culmination of eight mo...
Source: Ashfield Healthcare News - October 24, 2016 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Sarah Edwards Tags: Ashfield Source Type: news
Pegasus crowned PR Week ’s Specialist Consultancy of the Year
Pegasus, an Ashfield company, part of UDG Healthcare plc, is delighted to have been crowned Specialist Consultancy of the Year at this week’s prestigious PR Week Awards. The accolade tops a trio of big award wins in 2016 for Pegasus, an integrated healthcare communications consultancy with a mission to ‘inspire healthy decisions’.
The PR Week Award judges said of Pegasus, it is “a very capable agency pulling amazing growth figures while doing really creative work for clients.” The judging panel also recognised the power of its integrated approach, blending insight and strategic planning around behaviour change, w...
Source: Ashfield Healthcare News - October 24, 2016 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Josee Leach Tags: Ashfield Source Type: news
STEM Marketing joins Ashfield
STEM is a global business offering services across 35 countries including the US, EU, Japan and China and its customers include 18 of the top 20 largest pharmaceutical companies. STEM’s unique service uses a proven, evidence based methodology to quantify and benchmark organisational alignment and quality of execution to create practical action plans to accelerate brand performance.
The acquisition significantly expands Ashfield’s service offering and capabilities in the commercial and clinical services market and complements Ashfield Healthcare Communications global offering. It is in line with UDG Healthcare’s str...
Source: Ashfield Healthcare News - October 21, 2016 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Josee Leach Tags: Ashfield Source Type: news
Liz Harvey strengthens Ashfield Meetings & Events ’ exhibit offering
Liz will head up a dedicated global exhibit team that operates as an internal department, delivering a specialist service to the agency’s healthcare clients. In the last 12 months the team has delivered over 100 exhibits in Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific . Liz will report to Nicola Burns, Global Managing Director at Ashfield Meetings & Events.
Liz joined Ashfield Meetings & Events in 2006 as a Project Executive and progressed through the ranks to become an Account Director. In this time she has worked with numerous healthcare and life science organisations at a local, regional and global level. Most recen...
Source: Ashfield Healthcare News - October 19, 2016 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Olaf Spinkel Tags: Ashfield Source Type: news
David Chantry announced as Head of Quality & Compliance (UK and Ireland)
David has been successful in a number of roles across various healthcare environments prior to joining the company, and has been appointed to this important leadership role to spearhead the development and implementation of the quality and compliance initiatives as they relate to the business and regulatory requirements in the UK and Ireland.
David, who will be responsible for delivery of quality and compliance initiatives as well as inputting to overall strategy and development, commented: “I’m delighted to be part of a great team and working in such a dynamic and pivotal part of the business. Ensuring that high stand...
Source: Ashfield Healthcare News - October 17, 2016 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Josee Leach Tags: Ashfield Source Type: news
Ashfield to present at the 13th Annual eyeforpharma Patient Summit Europe 2016, London, UK
The upcoming eyeforpharma Patient Summit Europe brings together those who want to define a new patient-centric model that works, and this year’s theme ‘Prove it: Why putting patients first makes business sense’ is set to stimulate lots of interesting conversation and debate across the two days, 17 – 18 October 2016.
Ashfield is proud to be a gold sponsor of the Patient Summit Europe, and will be delivering a plenary session at midday on day 1, where Ashfield’s Jo Fearnhead-Wymbs, Patient Engagement Director and Anita Osborn, Head of Nursing Operations, will be joined on stage by Dr Oleksandr Gorbenko, Global Pati...
Source: Ashfield Healthcare News - October 6, 2016 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Sarah Edwards Tags: Ashfield Source Type: news
Ashfield proudly sponsors the Pf Award Winners Club at the House of Commons
To recognise these achievements, there was a great turnout from Ashfield, with both directors and past winners alike. You can read more about our past winners here.
The event was designed to be an exclusive network of professionals who have been previously recognised for their excellence in the pharmaceutical and medical device industry. In a nice touch, all winners of a Pf Award since it started were given a badge, signifying their membership to the prestigious club.
As the first of its kind, we will be looking forward to future events. It was a great opportunity to catch up with professionals from across the pharma indus...
Source: Ashfield Healthcare News - October 5, 2016 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Josee Leach Tags: Ashfield Source Type: news
Ashfield to Present on “The evolution of the patient relationship” at eyeforpharma’s Patient Summit (USA)
Ivyland, PA (October 2016) – Ashfield, part of UDG Healthcare plc, is pleased to announce its participation in eyeforpharma’s 13th Annual Patient Summit USA 2016, being held October 10-11, in Philadelphia. Nareda Mills, Senior Vice President of Clinical Services, Ashfield, will present on “The Evolution of the Patient Relationship” during day 1 of this two-day event. Ashfield will reinforce this presentation with its patient journey exhibit showcasing how the company works as a trusted global partner tailoring an end-to-end patient experience.
Nareda’s presentation will review how changes to the health eco-system...
Source: Ashfield Healthcare News - October 4, 2016 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Josee Leach Tags: Ashfield Source Type: news
Ashfield Meetings & Events again named in annual list of top special event producers
Ashfield Meetings & Events has once again been named in Special Events magazine’s Top 50, an annual look at the largest players in the events industry.
In the previous twelve months Ashfield Meetings & Events managed more than 2,000 events in 54 countries, engaging with over 140,000 audience members through offices across the US and Europe.
In this year’s survey, Special Events asked large event producers to share their forecasts on major trends in event production. Integration of technology into events was a recurring theme from a large majority of the organisations involved.
“We have been exploring how ...
Source: Ashfield Healthcare News - September 28, 2016 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Ewan Jamieson Tags: Ashfield Source Type: news
Chris Corbin announces intention to retire from Ashfield in April 2019
In preparation for his retirement, Chris will transition to the role of Chairman of Ashfield in spring 2017 once his successor has been appointed. This will facilitate a phased transition of Chris’s responsibilities over the next two and half years. In addition, Chris will remain as a member of the Board of Directors of UDG Healthcare until his retirement.
Chris Corbin, CEO of Ashfield and Board Member of UDG Healthcare, said: “From the foundation of our business to the present day I have had the great pleasure and honour of working with many wonderful and talented people in our organisation, and I would like to thank ...
Source: Ashfield Healthcare News - September 26, 2016 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Olaf Spinkel Tags: Ashfield Source Type: news
Ashfield Meetings & Events promote Dan Walker to Head of Content
The move will take effect from October 1st 2016, and the role spans both the Ashfield Meetings & Events and SPARK THINKING brands. Dan will sit within the internal engagement team that already includes creative, digital and communication specialists. He will report to Jo Brook, Engagement Director at Ashfield Meetings & Events.
Dan joined Ashfield Meetings & Events in 2008 as an Account Manager before progressing to Senior Account Manager and then Client Services Manager. In this time he has worked with clients including Allergan, Amadeus, Bayer and Danone. More recently Dan has been working in a business dev...
Source: Ashfield Healthcare News - September 23, 2016 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Olaf Spinkel Tags: Ashfield Source Type: news
Ashfield and Patient Connect Form Alliance to Provide Holistic Patient Services
Ashfield provides field and call centre sales teams, healthcare communications, strategic consulting, in-home and call centre nurse educators, medical information, pharmacovigilance (drug safety), and event management services to over 300 healthcare companies in 18 countries including United Kingdom, America, Germany, Spain and Japan.
Through its Clinical service offering, Ashfield supports healthcare professionals in educating patients to help ensure they take their medications according to treatment protocols. Ashfield Clinical also delivers multichannel Patient Support Programs through nurse educators visiting patient h...
Source: Ashfield Healthcare News - September 19, 2016 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Olaf Spinkel Tags: Ashfield Source Type: news
