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Oct 14, 20204 min read
What is the cost of outpatient appointments?
Face-to-face outpatient appointments require patients to take time off work, travel and organise childcare. This all has a cost to the...

Sep 22, 20205 min read
Will we see a surge in referrals in mental health?
ZPB data briefing by Anne Janssen, ZPB’s Analyst ZPB’s analytic unit was commissioned by Ieso Digital Health to investigate the effect...

Sep 15, 20203 min read
NHS reset – what now for comms and pharma?
Last week ZPB hosted a webinar with the Healthcare Communications Association By Helen Mooney, Senior Content Manager 2020 has been a...


Sep 10, 20204 min read
Telling stories with data
Data adds another dimension to a story. It provides insight, legitimacy, enhancing your message creating impact and important context. It...


Aug 21, 20204 min read
Where next for data and digital?
So much has changed for the world of digital health since the pandemic – or has it? We spoke to 14 healthcare leaders to understand what...


Aug 12, 20205 min read
Where next? The health and care system re-set and what it means for you
By Zoe Bedford As the NHS and its partners come to terms with the events of the last few months and start COVID Phase 3 planning, ZPB...


Jul 20, 20202 min read
Jo Spadaccino appointed as Partner to strengthen pharma business
Jo Spadaccino has joined ZPB as a Partner to help deliver the agency’s ambition of bringing the healthcare worlds of pharma, services and...

Jul 8, 20202 min read
How are we doing? The ZPB customer survey 2020
By Gita Mendis More than nine out of ten ZPB customers have given us an overwhelming vote of confidence, as we collaborate with them to...


Mar 4, 20201 min read
ZPB shortlisted for 2020 HealthInvestor Awards
ZPB Associates has been shortlisted as a finalist in the ‘Strategic Consultancy of the Year’ category for this year’s HealthInvestor...


Feb 19, 20202 min read
Hancock misses the point – the NHS is stretched to breaking point
The NHS Staff Survey paints the same picture every year – over-worked and under-paid staff working around the clock to provide essential...


Feb 6, 20204 min read
Like Harvey Weinstein, people ‘must have known’ about Paterson
ZPB’s, Managing Partner and Director of Insight & Strategy, Alex Kafetz, spent the last two years as an independent adviser to the...


Nov 15, 20192 min read
Worst-ever waiting times, cannabis medicine approval and more election promises – it’s t
A&E waiting times at worst-ever level The NHS has recorded its worst A&E waiting times in England since current targets were introduced...


Nov 13, 20192 min read
ZPB aquires specialist healthcare PR firm Journalista
Today ZPB Associates announces the acquisition of PR specialists Journalista to further establish ZPB as the most connected insight-led...


Oct 18, 20192 min read
Protests over prices, a workforce crisis and a catfish campaign – it’s this week’s
Protests to cut tuberculosis drug price People have been protesting outside Johnson & Johnson offices around the world to urge the...


Jul 25, 20192 min read
New PM sets Hancock NHS infrastructure and social care challenge
Although there was a lot of speculation that Matt Hancock could have been promoted in the new Johnson government, last night it was...


Jul 24, 20192 min read
PM BoJo turns the heat up on health and social care
On a scorching summers day, Boris Johnson has just delivered his first speech as our new prime minister. Not even The Simpsons predicted...


Jun 4, 20191 min read
Lord Prior uses CHN to call for NHS Bond
The chair of NHS England Lord David Prior last night called on politicians to back a £50bn government “bond” for infrastructure spending,...


May 20, 20192 min read
So, how are we doing?
In March this year, we introduced the means of capturing feedback from our clients on an ongoing basis and built it into our processes....

May 17, 20192 min read
It’s Mental Health Awareness Week
UK’s mental health spending gap The mental health charity, Mind, have looked at investment across 42 NHS regions and found that there a...

Jan 25, 20192 min read
We’ve been thinking… is there sufficient dialogue between the NHS, pharma and digital health industr
Earlier this week ZPB brought together colleagues from the NHS, pharma and digital health industries to learn from one another and share...


Jan 7, 20192 min read
The NHS Long Term Plan: commentary so far
Today, NHS England’s heavily anticipated Long Term Plan was finally published, following a classic government body delay. The launch,...


Jun 13, 20182 min read
Are hospitals the answer?
Pressures on the NHS are increasing, hospital beds are becoming harder to find and as the costs of hospital stays soar, it begs the...

Jun 5, 20182 min read
Diagnosis Critical: England’s 32 Risk Zones
A new report launched today has shown that areas with hospitals in financial trouble and poor outcomes means that people are dying when...


Jan 19, 20121 min read
Healthcare at Home win a national award
We’d like to wish a huge congratulations to Healthcare at Home, who yesterday won a national award at the Patient Experience Network...
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