From Centricity to Power: Reflections from the Patient Empowerment Congress

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From Centricity to Power: Reflections from the Patient Empowerment Congress

An OVID Health article by Shamilah Nyiramukwaya “We are people and we are partners.” This powerful statement, shared at the Patient Empowerment World Congress 2025, captured the shift many of us have been waiting for: moving beyond the language of “patient centricity” toward genuine empowerment. For two days, pharma leaders, regulators, clinicians, advocates, and digital

The Future of Patient Advocacy and Pharma Partnerships in the UK: Insights from the Centre for Pharmaceutical Medicine Research

An OVID Health article by Jen Mannion I recently had the opportunity to speak with two of the key figures at King’s College London’s Centre for Pharmaceutical Medicine Research, Dr Liz Clark and Professor Graham McClelland. Patient engagement forms one of the Centre’s central three research themes and is integrated throughout its teaching. At a

From Patient Centricity to Patient Leadership: Pharma’s New Digital Engagement Frontier

Interview with with Jenny Ousbey, originally published in Pharma IQ, to discuss key findings from OVID’s new report on pharma-patient engagement trends and how social media is reshaping the industry’s approach to patient care. Pharma IQ: The report highlights a shift from patient-centric campaigns to patient-led experiences in pharma communications. What do you think has

OVIDcast: Patient Partnerships

As part of our continued commitment to patient partnerships here at OVID, we’re very excited to announce the launch of our new podcast series, OVIDcast: Patient Partnerships. The series will see health charity leaders speak with the OVID team about what makes for successful partnerships, and how the life-sciences industry can strengthen approaches to patient

Patient Partnership Index 2023 – The Highlights

Last month, we published the results of the 2023 Patient Partnership Index. This year’s Index saw another strong suite of entries, including GOLD standard entries from: AKU Society and the DevelopAKUre Consortium Gilead Sciences and the Elton John AIDS Foundation (RADIAN partnership) Kyowa Kirin and Lymphoma Action Pfizer UK and the Patients Association Sanofi UK

Patient Advocacy – when it goes wrong

Here at OVID Health, we are proud to be experts in supporting patients to secure change through patient advocacy. In the third instalment of this short series of blogs, we are sharing some of the insights we have gained working with our clients and running the Patient Partnership Index. As we have discussed in previous blogs,

Patient Advocacy: How Can It Be Done Better?

Here at OVID Health, we are proud to be experts in supporting patients to secure change through patient advocacy. In this series of blogs, we are sharing some of the insights we have gained working with our clients and running the Patient Partnership Index. The importance of patient advocacy Patient engagement is important to industry,

Patient Advocacy: working in partnership

Here at OVID Health, we are proud to be experts in supporting patients to secure change through patient advocacy. In this series of blogs, we are sharing some of the insights we have gained working with our clients and running the Patient Partnership Index. Telling your story Whenever we work with patient groups here at

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OVID Health is a trading name of Ovid Consulting Ltd (Company No. 11372061)
registered in England at B19, SBC House, Restmor Way, Wallington, SM6 7AH.

Site by XYCO