The annual Communiqué Awards, recognising best practice in PR and medical education, took place last night (July 9) at London's Grosvenor House hotel.
The Winners in pictures are now available as well as a photo gallery from the evening.
Full coverage will be published on PMLiVE shortly. The winners, commendations and finalists for each category are listed below.
Further details about the awards can be found on the Communiqué Awards section of PMLiVE.
Winner:
Brand(x) and DJM for AstraZeneca with The SMART Roadshow
Finalists:
Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics with In Pharmacy Flu Vaccination Programme
Resolute Communications for Shire with Educating Physicians, Targeting Change: The 2008 Toolkits
Say Communications for Janssen-Cilag with Marketing Insights for NHS Decision Makers
Virgo HEALTH for Roche Products with Beacon Centre Showcase - Challenging Perceptions in Renal Anaemia
Winner:
Red Health and Pfizer with Cracking Counterfeit
Highly Commended:
Huntsworth Health for Schering-Plough with Unblock Your Potential
Finalists:
Health Mandate for Rarer Cancers Forum with Taking Exception
Medicom Group for European Alliance for Access to Safe Medicines with The Counterfeiting Superhighway Report
Weber Shandwick for Roche with kNOwledge in Hepatitis C
Winner:
Virgo HEALTH for Roche Products with Beacon Centre DVD: Showcasing Real World Experience
Finalists:
Brand(x) and DJM for AstraZeneca with The SMART Roadshow
FD Santé for sanofi-aventis/ Bristol-Myers Squibb (UK) Pharmaceutical with Managing a Persistent QOF
FD Santé for Pfizer with Controversies in Psychiatry '08
Red Door Communications for Solvay Healthcare with Cooking Up Secondary Prevention for Post-MI patients
Winner:
Cohn & Wolfe for Mundipharma International with Cancer Tales: Improving HCP Communication in Cancer Care
Finalists:
Litmus MME for Abbott Virology with Elements: Enhancing Education in HIV
Litmus MME for Pfizer Ophthalmology with Eyecampus: Collaborative Learning In Ophthalmology
Winner:
Health Mandate for UK Lung Cancer Coalition and National Lung Cancer Forum for Nurses with Bringing the Hidden Contribution of Lung Cancer Specialist Nurses Out of the Shadows
Finalists:
Lucid for Abbott with UK Gastroenterologist Intimacy & Partnership Programme
Scarlett Oh! & The Excel Academy for Takeda UK with EnAct - Endorsement in Action: 'The Full Monty of Advocacy Programmes'
Schering-Plough with Anti-TNF Sequential Use Advocacy Development Programme
Winner:
Health Mandate for Rarer Cancers Forum with Taking Exception
Highly Commended:
Euro RSCG Life for Coloplast with Ostomy Patient Brochures
Halesway for Baxter Healthcare with Fit As... Protecting Joints in Haemophilia
Finalists:
Cohn & Wolfe for Bayer Schering Pharma with Take a Closer Look: Pharmacist Training Module Oral Contraceptives
Nexus Healthcare Communications for Dendron with Adios Magazine
Reynolds-MacKenzie for Roche Products with Time to Consult the ORAcle
Winner:
Cohn & Wolfe for Mundipharma International with Cancer Tales: Improving HCP Communications in Cancer Care
Finalists:
Abbott and Royal College of Nursing with Nutrition Now Campaign
Huntsworth Health for Schering-Plough with Unblock Your Potential
Litmus MME for Pfizer Ophthalmology with Eyecampus: Collaborative Learning in Ophthalmology
Winner:
Red Health and Pfizer with Get Real, Get a Prescription
Highly Commended:
Pegasus for Thornton & Ross with Hedrin - ONCE A WEEK, TAKE A PEEK: Getting Ahead of Head Lice
Finalists:
Halesway and Myriad Public Relations for SSL International with Durexhibitions - National Condom Week 2008
Just:: Health PR and Pfizer UK with SERIOUSQUITTERS 'Your Moment to Quit' Roadshow
Ketchum for Bayer Schering Pharma with World Contraception Day 2008
Winner:
Abbott in association with Weber Shandwick with Fit for Work
Finalists:
Health Mandate for The Infact and Dietetic Foods Association with Creating a Hunger to Tackle Malnutrition
Health Mandate for Rarer Cancers Forum with Taking Exception
Macmillan Cancer Support with Prescription Charges Campaign
Winner:
Pfizer with Lipitor: A Return to Growth
Winner: Pegasus for Crosscare with 'A Problem Shared' - A Campaign for Colief Finalists:
Best OTC Product Campaign
Pegasus for Covonia with Covonia - Winning the Cold War!
Pegasus for Thornton and & Ross with Hedrin - ONCE A WEEK, TAKE A PEEK: Getting Ahead of Head Lice Winner: Age Concern and Help the Aged, with funding from corporate sponsor Abbott Nutrition with Viral Videos Spread the Message on Good Nutrition Highly Commended: Red Health and Pfizer with Get Real, Get a Prescription Finalists: Winner: Red Health and Pfizer with Get Real, Get a Prescription Highly Commended: Roche Products with Celebrating 100 Year of Roche in the UK Finalists: Winner: Chandler Chicco Agency for Pfizer UK with 'Windows to Health' - Raising Awareness of Glaucoma and its Risk Factors Highly Commended: Health Mandate for Rarer Cancers Forum with Taking Exception Finalists: Winner: Ogilvy Health PR for Boehringer Ingelheim with The On Target Trial Programme Highly Commended: Reynolds-MacKenzie for World Health Organisation/ Commission on Social Determinants for Health with Global Health Differences: Closing the Gap in a Generation Finalists: Winner: Ketchum for Bayer Schering Pharma with World Contraception Day 2008 Finalists:
Best Use of New Media
Brand(x) and DJM for AstraZeneca with The SMART Roadshow
Halesway for Schering-Plough with Eczpert
Best Corporate PR Campaign
Novartis Pharmaceuticals UK with Eye-catching Corporate Communications: A NICE Approach
Red Door Communications for College of Emergency Medicine with Way Ahead for the College of Emergency Medicine
Best UK Media Relations Campaign
Nexus Healthcare Communications for UK Tea Council with UK Tea Council
Reynolds-MacKenzie for Eisai and Pfizer with The Aricept Appeal
Best International Media Relations Campaign
Chandler Chicco Agency and Allergan with Creating a Positive Media Environment for the European Launch of Juvéderm ULTRA
Cohn & Wolfe for Roche with ACTEMRA - 'The Mission is Remission'
Tonic Life Communications for Procter & Gamble with Pampers UNICEF 1 Pack = 1 Vaccine
Best International PR Campaign
Fleishman Hillard for World Hepatitis Alliance with 'Am I Number 12?': World Hepatitis Day 2008
Galliard Healthcare Communications for Roche Pharmaceuticals with Lung Cancer Awareness Month 2008 - Affiliate Support Programme
Winner:
Red Health and Pfizer with Get Real, Get a Prescription
Winner:
Rarer Cancers Forum submitted by Health Mandate
Finalists:
The Hepatitis C Trust submitted by Roche Products
The National Rheumatoid Arthritis Society
Winner:
Kelly Teasdale, Chandler Chicco Companies
Highly Commended:
Aaron Pond, Aurora
Finalists: Winner: The Pfizer UK Communications Team Finalists: Winner: Andrew Topen, Pfizer Finalists: Winner: Martin Ellis, Medicom Group Winner: Reynolds-MacKenzie Highly Commended: Hive Finalists: Winner: Watermeadow Medical Finalists: Winner: Virgo HEALTH Highly Commended: Red Door Communications Finalists:
Monica Gounaropoulos, Tonic Life Communications
Arabella Moore, Ketchum
Hannah O'Neill, Virgo HEALTH
In-house Team of the Year
Novartis UK In-house Communications Team
Roche Products: Continuing to Unlock Potential
Communiquétor of the Year
Amie Baker, AstraZeneca
Fiona Hall, Chandler Chicco Companies
Communiqué Lifetime Achievement Award
Best Small Consultancy
Aurora
Lucid
Communiqué Medical Education Consultancy of the Year
Health Interactions
iS Health Group
Communiqué PR Consultancy of the Year
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