The specialist healthcare policy and public affairs consultancy

• About us

  Advocate is a specialist healthcare policy and public affairs consultancy.

  We provide policy and public affairs advice to patient groups, clinical professional groups and industry helping them understand policy and communicate effectively with parliaments, governments and non-departmental public bodies.

  Issues we have recently advised on include:

  • Access to orphan and ultra-orphan medicines
  • Policy on NHS National Specialised Commissioning and services for people with rare diseases
  • Direction of the NHS reform programme and its impact on clients’ corporate objectives
  • Development of a campaign coalition for the organ donation and transplantation community
  • Patient safety policy and an associated inquiry in Parliament

  Advocate is an independent agency with an established reputation for providing excellent advice and campaign implementation.

• Services

  Every client and project requires tailored services and solutions.

  These are some of the things we do:

  • Intelligence, monitoring and analysis
  • Stakeholder mapping
  • Advice on healthcare policy development
  • Relations with governments and parliaments
  • Campaign development and implementation
  • Media and corporate communications
  • Issues and crisis management
  • Coalition building

  Please contact us for more information about the services that we could provide for you.

• Our people

  Advocate is a group of highly skilled individuals passionate about policy and politics.

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    Jamie Holyer
    Managing Director

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    Nick Hoile
    Senior Consultant

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    Alex Fellows
    Finance Manager

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    Christiane Kellner
    Consultant

  Jamie Holyer

  Managing Director

  Jamie has over a decade of professional experience in media, politics and policy. He started his career as a regional newspaper journalist before going onto to work for the BBC as a political researcher and the Labour Party as a media relations advisor for Members of Parliament.

  In 2002 he left politics for private sector consultancy advising many leading pharmaceutical and energy corporations. He founded Advocate in 2006 to provide clients with a bespoke healthcare policy and public affairs consultancy.

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  Nick Hoile

  Senior Consultant

  Nick began his career as a researcher on the Centre for Social Justice's Breakdown Britain report and subsequently joined the Mental Health Foundation's Policy Unit.

  He later joined National Voices, the coalition of third sector and social care campaigning organisations, as the Policy & Political Affairs Officer, where he was a member of several independent and governmental advisory groups. Nick is also a health policy researcher for the Bow Group and has degrees from the universities of Durham and Cardiff.

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  Alex Fellows

  Finance Manager

  Alex has over 10 year's experience of working with healthcare communications agencies and supports Advocate corporately across all clients.

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  Christiane Kellner

  Consultant

  Formerly of the European Commission, the European Parliament and the United Nations.

  Prior to joining Advocate she was a consultant with another leading consultancy in Brussels advising major pharmaceutical companies on EU healthcare policy.

  Christiane holds an MPhil in Politics from the University of Oxford and an M.A in International Relations from the University of St Andrews.

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• Our clients

  Advocate works for a wide range of patient groups, clinical professional groups and industry:

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• Contact

  For more information about Advocate please contact:

  Jamie Holyer
  Managing Director
  Advocate
  One Queen Anne’s Gate
  London SW1H 9BT

  Tel: 020 7233 3558
  Email: info@advocate-consulting.co.uk

  
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