The Communiqué Awards returned for its 27th year on 3 July to celebrate excellence in healthcare communications and showcase the work shaping the industry.
Once again held at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London, the event began with a VIP reception, welcoming hundreds of guests in smart evening wear who were full of excitement about who would be going home as a Communiqué 2025 winner.
The two co-chairs, Catherine Devaney, founder of Curious Health Communications, and Neil Flash, owner of Ignition Consulting, took to the stage to welcome the guests, emphasising the importance of pushing boundaries and ensuring that every campaign, strategy and message is designed with impact in mind.
They were followed by this year’s host, television and radio presenter Vernon Kay, who kept the audience laughing and created a fun, lively atmosphere throughout the awards ceremony. He also recognised the vital work that the healthcare communications industry does, highlighting its impact with a genuine appreciation.
The Awards included 30 categories, celebrating excellence across healthcare comms and medical affairs, alongside individual, team and company achievements.
The first award of the evening, Excellence in Data Communications, went to ‘Quantifying the Heavy Burden of Chronic Hand Eczema’ by Anthem PR on behalf of LEO Pharma UK. The judges were impressed that the team had “managed to garner interest in this hard-to-reach area” and said “the fact that they were able to bring to life how it felt [for people] to not be able to use [their] hands was commendable”.
‘Liming With Gran’ by Ketchum on behalf of Genomics England and the University of Cambridge picked up two awards: Excellence in Public Health Communications and the Say Communications Award for Excellence in Communication Through Creative Execution. The campaign sought to change London’s Black Caribbean community’s approach to having difficult family health conversations and centred around ‘liming’ – the Western equivalent of ‘chilling and hanging out’ over good conversation.
Excellence in Professional Education Programmes was awarded to ‘ROSETTA-LUNG’ by Ashfield MedComms (Inizio Medical) on behalf of AstraZeneca, with the judges describing the entry as “an incredibly smart and practically-based solution for intra-regional variations in lung patient staging and treatment”.
The first of the individual, team and company awards, Early Career Achiever in Healthcare Communications, was won by Beth Masters from 67health. The panel described Masters as a “passionate and incredibly impressive communications champion who has shown potential from the off”, and said “the value she is adding to her agency and the wider industry is huge”.
Communiqué Medical Affairs Agency of the Year was awarded to Bedrock Healthcare Communications, while Virgo Health took home the coveted and final award of the night, Communiqué Communications Consultancy of the Year.
An evening of dancing and networking followed, marking the conclusion of another successful and memorable Communiqué Awards.
The full Communiqué Awards 2025 results can be viewed here.