This morning, several of the OVID team gathered around our meeting room table to watch the King’s Speech, setting out Labour’s initial programme for government. It’s fair to say that, at that first sight, the programme did not set our pulses racing. From a health perspective, there were positive noises about reducing waiting lists and …
As the Labour Party met in Manchester, and listened to powerful and emotive stories from voters, including from a terminal cancer patient, Nathaniel, who wondered “what might have been” had he received cancer treatment on the NHS earlier, the Labour leader, Sir Keir Starmer, took to the stage to promise an end to “sticking plaster …
In September 1985, Microsoft Excel was released, and the world changed. Excel was not the first spreadsheet software, but it was the first to implement “intelligent cell recomputation”, whereby changes to one cell automatically resulted in all linked cells (and no others) being updated. With the rise of Excel, tasks which once took hours were …
In this instalment of “On the sofa with OVID health” we sat down with Senior Account Executive, Robbie Lockyer. Robbie joined OVID from a medical communications agency where he worked on their largest global client account in gene therapy – managing ad boards, congresses, symposiums and web content. Before that Robbie worked in the PR …
Every year, on the last day of February, the global rare disease community comes together to raise awareness and advocate for positive change for the 300 million people worldwide living with a rare disease. To mark Rare Disease Day, the Department of Health and Social Care have published their third Rare Diseases Action Plan for …
Whilst the date of the General Election is yet to be announced, both the Conservative and Labour Parties have started 2024 in full campaign mode. Long accused of having no real policies, the latest offering from Labour – a Life Sciences Sector Strategy announced today at an industry roundtable at the Stevenage Bioscience Catalyst – …
Leading independent health communications consultancy OVID Health and patient insights charity White Swan have announced a new collaboration, designed to use the power of social data to inform and inspire patient-centric campaigns for life sciences companies. OVID becomes the first European comms consultancy to work with White Swan and harness its disruptive AI insights platform, …
In another of our semi-regular “on the sofa” series, we caught up with one of OVID’s very first employees, Murray, Chief Dog Officer. Read on to learn more about how Murray has shaped OVID’s culture. You’re one of the longest-standing members of the OVID team. How long have you been at OVID, and what is …
As we look forward to 2024, our Senior Account Executive, Robbie Lockyer, considers the outlook for newborn screening for rare diseases, and discusses whether the UK is will continue to fall behind our European neighbours. Since the 1950s, when the newborn blood spot (NBS) screening programme was first introduced (commonly referred to as the heel prick …
As our first OVID intern, and now permanent member of the OVID team, Junior Account Executive Maddy tells us what drew her to working in healthcare communications. I’m no psychologist but I imagine most would concur that impressions left on you during childhood in some way, shape or form influence your choice of profession. I …
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registered in England at B19, SBC House, Restmor Way, Wallington, SM6 7AH.
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