GCI Health

We love what we do – and our clients know it. We pride ourselves on being able to tackle just about any communications challenge, big or small, as a full service healthcare communications agency built on four key pillars:

Life Sciences

• Brand communications throughout a product life-cycle, e.g. data and regulatory milestones, Health Technology Appraisals, issues management and more

Consumer Health 

• Creative programmes that activate patients, consumers and their influencers to effect behaviour change

Market Access Communications

• Initiatives that communicate the value proposition of a brand to support broader access strategies

Strategic consulting

• Counsel on optimising the performance of in-house communications teams, at a country or regional level, e.g. analysing ways of working, roles and responsibilities, team structure and behaviours to help drive efficiencies

Global: Acelity, Bayer, Janssen, Kite (a Gilead Company), Merck, MSD, Pfizer, Vertex

European: Acelity, Gilead, Janssen, Pfizer

UK: Acelity, electroCore, MQ (pro bono), Pfizer

GCI Health continues to go from strength to strength, with significant new hires

Award-winning healthcare communications agency bolsters its London team with six new hires

GCI Health hires Kim Walker as Deputy Managing Director in London

Award winning healthcare communications agency boosts its London team with the addition of six new hires

GCI Health Expands into Asia to Meet Growing Demand

WPP owned healthcare specialist agency GCI Health has expanded into the Asia-Pacific region. Its base of operations will be Singapore with local capability built across the region. GCI Health’s Managing Director for Europe Rikki Jones will be relocating from London to Singapore to take on the role of Managing Director, Asia-Pacific.

GCI Health Named Small Consultancy of the Year at 2018 Communiqué Awards

GCI Health named Small Consultancy of the Year at the 2018 Communiqué Awards, following significant growth and success for the firm’s London based European hub.

GCI Health launches The ZEST Project to find the next generation of health communicators

GCI Health is on the hunt for the UK’s top graduate talent after announcing that applications are now open for the agency’s annual graduate recruitment scheme.

GCI Health launches global medical education offer with new appointment

GCI Health has appointed Cally Clarkson as its first Director of Medical Education

GCI Health makes senior promotions and expands team with an additional two hires

Specialist healthcare communications agency GCI Health makes two senior promotions and the agency continues to expand following two new hires.

GCI Health expands London team with five new hires

Specialist healthcare communications agency GCI Health has welcomed five new hires including Director Hannah Morris as the agency continues to expand following a succession of new business wins.

GCI Health expands London team

Specialist healthcare communications agency GCI Health has bolstered its fast growing London team with an additional three hires, welcoming Senior Account Director Claire Woods, Account Director Laura Starr and Account Manager Chris Bath.

Junior Doctor contracts – PR winners and losers

GCI Health's Caroline Howley on who's winning the PR battle around the junior doctors' strike.

Channel purpose, change lives

GCI Health's Laura Starr on the power of creativity in health and wellness, all founded upon authentic brand purpose.

The patient will see you now

GCI Health’s Laura Starr and Chris Bath report on how the dawning era of mobile tech and the ‘Internet of Things’ has transformed the health and wellness arena.

More of the same: The importance of strategic communications planning for biosimilar entry

GCI Health's Hannah Morris considers the importance of strategic communications planning for biosimilar entry, a market anticipated to deliver between €8-26bn in savings across the European Union by 2020.

Determining value to withstand all tests

Rikki Jones considers the role of communications in defining and telling a product’s value story. The article in Pharmaceutical Marketing Europe discusses the need for functions to better join forces early in the access continuum in the interest of defining and delivering value that is going to withstand stakeholder scrutiny, and not just from pricing and regulatory decision makers, especially given the particularly heavy spotlight on price that some therapy areas have endured this year.

“GCI Health London continuously thrives on and delivers against the challenges that global programming can present. The team is very much an extension of our own, a trusted position they have rightly earned. Strategically they work to help navigate an ever changing landscape, never resting on their laurels to be a team that just ‘does the do’, they are with us every step of way. I have huge praise for their enthusiastic solutions-based approach, which was key to our 2013 success – including the delivery of one program in particular that is hailed as our company’s most successful patient targeted campaign to date, involving implementation oversight across 20 countries. I’m truly thankful for what my collaboration with GCI Health has delivered, for which they should feel very proud.”
Global communications lead

“GCI Health is a strategically minded and enthusiastic partner who has worked alongside our European business, supporting a number of high-level projects and issues. GCI Health is hands-on when it comes to implementing strategy and supporting our affiliates. Together we have achieved a great number of critical objectives, many of them focused on the delivery of new treatments to patients. We continue to be strong partners working towards equally important goals. The team has proven themselves to be accommodating, nimble and a pleasure to work with. Their forward-looking approach is commendable and very appreciated – they are deserving of every success.”
European communications lead

“We selected GCI Health as our agency partner as we were impressed by their offer that combines the personalised service of a small agency with the impact and professionalism more commonly found in larger organisations. Historically, we had an ad-hoc approach to communications and within a matter of weeks of agreeing a programme with GCI Health, we had a presence across all social media platforms, a schedule of content to put the organisation at the forefront of the key issues in the management of respiratory disease, and executive committee agreement on a business strategy, vision and mission to present to our sponsors. We found the GCIH team to be dynamic, motivated and engaged, a pleasure to work with. That we experienced increased visibility across the media and our enhanced profile amongst our sponsors in such a short time is a testimony to the GCI Health’s team passion and drive.”
UK professional society chair

Beyond our own global healthcare network, WPP’s vast collection of agencies allows us to tap into other specialty expertise and knowledge that complements ours, to offer fully integrated solutions for our clients. And we share office space with a number of them!