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Advocate is a lobbying consultancy specialising in healthcare, which was formed in September 2007.
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According to its website, recent lobbying successes have included "''helping a major pharmaceutical client secure an ongoing Ministerial commitment to fund an expensive therapy area, and assisting a leading professional body to amend government legislation during its passage through the Houses of Parliament."''<ref>[http://www.advocate-consulting.co.uk/clients.html Advocate website], accessed Jan 2009]</ref>
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==People==
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[[Jamie Holyer]], Managing Director and founder. Former Labour Party press officer, Holyer was an account director with lobbying agency [[Political Intelligence]] and a senior consultant with [[Fleishman-Hillard]] (formerly GPC International. He then went back to Labour to work on the party's third successive General Election victory in 2005.<ref>[http://www.pharmafocus.com/cda/focusH/1,2109,21-0-0-SEP_2006-focus_news_detail-0-465372,00.html Public affairs agency Advocate launched] Pharma Focus, Sept 2007</ref>
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==Clients==
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Clients at the end of 2008 include:<ref>[http://www.appc.org.uk/index.cfm/pcms/site.ourclients.register_home APPC register] to November 2008</ref><br>
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[[Bayer Schering Pharma]] | [[IDIS]] | [[Alexion Biopharmaceuticals]] | [[Medical Defence Union]] | [[Astellas]] | [[UKCTA]]
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==Contacts==
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One Queen Anne’s Gate,
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London, SW1h 9BT<br>
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http://www.advocate-consulting.co.uk
  
 
==Resources==
 
==Resources==

Revision as of 17:31, 9 January 2009

Advocate is a lobbying consultancy specialising in healthcare, which was formed in September 2007. According to its website, recent lobbying successes have included "helping a major pharmaceutical client secure an ongoing Ministerial commitment to fund an expensive therapy area, and assisting a leading professional body to amend government legislation during its passage through the Houses of Parliament."[1]

People

Jamie Holyer, Managing Director and founder. Former Labour Party press officer, Holyer was an account director with lobbying agency Political Intelligence and a senior consultant with Fleishman-Hillard (formerly GPC International. He then went back to Labour to work on the party's third successive General Election victory in 2005.[2]

Clients

Clients at the end of 2008 include:[3]

Bayer Schering Pharma | IDIS | Alexion Biopharmaceuticals | Medical Defence Union | Astellas | UKCTA


Contacts

One Queen Anne’s Gate, London, SW1h 9BT
http://www.advocate-consulting.co.uk

Resources

Notes

  1. Advocate website, accessed Jan 2009]
  2. Public affairs agency Advocate launched Pharma Focus, Sept 2007
  3. APPC register to November 2008