Hello and welcome to the June issue of Pharmaceutical Market Europe. This is my first full issue at the helm of PME, and it’s been a pleasure getting to know the great team here at Mansard House, and also seeing the fantastic engagement that our audience has with the magazine and all of PMGroup’s products.
None more so than the Communiqué Awards, which is unquestionably one of the focal points of the year for pharma and healthcare communications professionals.
I played a small role in the two days of intense Communiqué judging last month, and can attest to the great craft, creativity and rigour put into the entries, and a matching commitment to fairness and high standards from all the judges from agencies and clients. That’s why winning a Communiqué award is an achievement to be proud of.
The very best of luck to all the finalists, and I look forward to meeting many of you on the night itself at the Grosvenor House on 28 June.
Women leaders in healthcare
Women have always played a crucial role in healthcare, even when they were far from being men’s equals in society: from Florence Nightingale to Rosalind Franklin, from Marie Curie to Frances Oldham Kelsey, there have been plenty of female heroes and pioneers if you knew where to look.
In 2018 we are in the midst of an exciting re-energised drive for women to secure true ‘gender parity’ – and some concrete measures such as the UK’s Gender Pay Gap regulations are helping to accelerate that. But the best drivers for change are women themselves, leading from the front and breaking down barriers.
My thanks to the wonderful members of the Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association (HBA) in London who invited me to attend their recent event (featured on p26), which brought together four remarkable women leaders in healthcare.
The HBA London chapter’s energy inspired this month’s in-depth feature – 30 Women Leaders in UK Healthcare. In this list, we’ve selected just a small cross section of the great female talent taking a lead today, and reshaping our field for now and the future.
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