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The fab four for communications leadership
Discover the four essential attributes of great communications leadership in healthcare. Learn how self-awareness, sincerity, ethics, and results focus can transform your strategy, build trust, and boost engagement. Insights from The Difference Collective’s Andrew Thomas.

The new type of empathy that could transform your 2025 healthcare communications approach
The right blend of practical and emotional empathy in your communications approach – corporately, for campaigns and for external or internal brands – can help you to get your message heard and deliver the greatest impact. Find out more.

Moderation matters in 2025: why transformation temperance is crucial in healthcare strategy, leadership and communications
We consider the difference between change and transformation, look at the balance between overarching goals and meaningful, practical achievements and recommend how to break down change into tangible elements.

Healthcare communications transformation fatigue webinar round-up
In this article for communications professionals and leaders, we’ve summarised seven key findings and perspectives from the webinar. If you’re interested in more depth on any of these points, please get in touch: we’d love to understand your experiences and share more insights.

Medical Affairs engagement beyond traditional HCPs: 5 key communications actions for the new ICB landscape
The changing world of healthcare is placing new demands on medical affairs and creating new opportunities to make a positive impact. We asked our leading consultants to share best practices they’ve developed and adopted in the new ICB landscape.

Pharma and healthcare transformation: a practical checklist for change communication
We’ve never seen such high demand for support for transformation and change programmes in healthcare. We asked our senior change specialists to share 15 core principles from their latest experience of change communications.
