Advocate Policy and Public Affairs
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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]
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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]
APPC UK
June 2014-August 2014
Jamie Holyer | Douglas Jefferson | Edward Keyser | Vashti McDonald-Clink | Dr Sandra Nestler-Parr | Julie Yvin[3]
Clients
June 2014-August 2014
Aegerion | aHUS Action | Alpha-1 Alliance | Bayer Pharma | CSL Behring | PNH-Alliance | Transplant 2013 | Vertex Pharmaceuticals [3]
Clients at the end of 2008 include:[4]
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
- Advocate Policy & Public Affairs Consulting Ltd, APPC Register Entry for 1 December 2007 to 29 February 2008
- Advocate Policy & Public Affairs Consulting Ltd, APPC Register Entry for 1 June 2009 to 31 August 2009
Notes
- ↑ Advocate website, accessed Jan 2009]
- ↑ Public affairs agency Advocate launched Pharma Focus, Sept 2007
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Register 1st June 2014 - 31st August 2014 APPC, accessed 19 October 2014
- ↑ APPC register to November 2008
