Santé Communications

Santé Communications is an independent PR company specialising in healthcare PR.

Selling A Voluntary Code

Following widespread criticism of the UK drug industry in 2005 ABPI launched a revised version of its voluntary code of practice on marketing practices to take effect on January 1, 2006. In January 2006 PR Week reported that ABPI had hired Santé Communications to "handle a 'multi-faceted' campaign targeting all industry stakeholders from April." [1]

Santé MD Liz Shanahan told PR Week "The industry is often perceived by media and clinical communities to be an aggressive oligarch; in our experience that is not the case." [2]

Personnel

• Liz Shanahan, Managing Director
• Tracy Barrett, Executive Director
• Jody Ball, Account Director
• Delphine M.Miller, Account Director

Clients

Santé Communications lists its "current and recent clients" as:

• Actelion
• Aventis (UK) Ltd
• Boehringer Ingelheim GmbH
• Boehringer Ingelheim UK
• Boots Hearingcare
• Cephalon (UK) Ltd
• GE Healthcare (Formerly Amersham)
• GlaxoSmithKline – International
• Ferring Pharmaceuticals
• Nycomed UK Ltd
• Octapharma
• Procter & Gamble Pharmaceuticals (UK) Ltd
• Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd
• Roche Products Ltd
• Sanofi~Synthelabo
• Schering-Plough Ltd
• The Songbird Corporation

Related Sourcewatch Resources

• Thomson Gardiner-Caldwell Communications

Contact details

Santé Communications
14 Floral Street
Covent Garden
London WC2E 9DH
United Kingdom
Phone: +44 (0)20 7379 7377
Fax:+44 (0)20 7379 7422
E-mail: info AT sante.co.uk
Web: http://www.sante.co.uk/

External links

• Ian Hall, "ABPI calls in Santé to promote ‘strict’ code", PR Week, January 19, 2006. (Sub req'd).

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