Aurora Comms Blog

We asked Jamie Holyer, MD of our public affairs partner Advocate, to assess the first few days of government and forecast what this means for medicine funding.  Here is what he had to say… 
After what has been one of the most interesting few weeks in Westminster that anyone can remember the stark reality of the restricted [...]

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Our new Tory Liberal coalition Government has today announced their health policy, the focus of which is to maintain NHS spending with real term increases. The media reports that this will keep the budget in line with inflation at the current £100 billion annual spend.  So as anticipated, the NHS will no longer grow at [...]

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We have just returned from Paris having stepped off the Eurostar. We had a great annual general meeting of GLOBALHealthPR, our network. It was great to catch-up as well as share best practice.  Amazing work is being undertaken at both a local, regional and global level by our partners. Our French partner host Marie-Helene and her team looked [...]

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Claire, Neil and Sarah have just arrived in Paris for the GLOBALHealthPR AGM. We get to meet up with our thirteen network partners from around the world and catch up on all the gossip.

Neil Crump Managing Director Aurora
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To fake anything in the health arena (even with clear disclaimers), especially a product or service of real health benefit, is just dumb and unlikely to work. In this case the proof is in the number of ‘likes’, of which there are 57 today, hardly a rip roaring success!
At 12:30 CET on 1 May 2010 [...]

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This is a Jack Daniel’s ad I saw this week on the platform at Warren Street Tube. Totally agree with the sentiment about committees. Monuments can however be built to teams.

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April has truly brought the beginnings of spring and raised spirits in the Aurora office, where we are pleased to report that business is blooming. As well as celebrating the top 20’s third birthday this month, we played hosts to a court case for better healthcare media materials, which raised fascinating insight into the collaborative [...]

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On the 21st of April 2010, at Brown’s Courtroom in Covent Garden, Aurora played host to the first court case of its kind, placing health media materials in the dock, and asking a specialist jury of UK health journalists to reach a verdict. With Judge Jacqui Thornton presiding over the court, Daily Mail Medical Correspondent, [...]

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Is it just me or do other people get excited when a parcel comes through the post?
I regularly have parcels of online purchased goodies arrive at our work home in Bayham Street, Camden, and like a small child on their birthday I get almost as excited about other people’s cardboard wrapped surprises as ones addressed [...]

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The quality of health media materials provided to journalists are under the gavel in a court-room type drama at Brown’s Court Room tonight from 6.30 pm. Communications consultant and former health editor at The Sun, Jacqui Thornton, is presiding over proceedings as Judge. Experts giving evidence include Jenny Hope, medical correspondent at the Daily Mail, [...]

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