Advocate Policy and Public Affairs
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
- ↑ Advocate website, accessed Jan 2009]
- ↑ Public affairs agency Advocate launched Pharma Focus, Sept 2007
- ↑ APPC register to November 2008