About us
Rx Communications is:
Rx – The Boutique Medical Communications Agency
- A boutique medical communications agency with global reach and vast capacity.
- The longest established and largest medical communications agency specialising in health economics and outcomes communications, publications and training.
- One of the most ethical and compliant medical communications agencies in healthcare today.
- A leader in innovative healthcare communications and medical publications, strategic planning and management.
What makes us different?
- We stick to what we’re good at; we won’t tell you we can do something if we can’t.
- We maintain the highest ethical standards; we won’t give your competitors your projects as work samples, or vice versa; we follow GPP3 guidelines and keep you on the straight and narrow.
- We only use highly experienced writers – all have 5+ years of experience. We have over 1650 person-years experience on offer.
- Our networking model gives you flexibility, capacity and dedicated resources.
- We’re the best at communicating HEOR to any audience clearly, logically and accurately.
Our Vision
The Rx vision:
- We aim to be the communications agency of choice for the leaders in healthcare provision.
- Our vision is to make accurate, valuable information, particularly in health economics and outcomes, accessible to all via excellent communication.
- We have a common goal that drives the team to reach beyond the norm and achieve the best possible outcomes for clients, suppliers and team members alike.
Our Values
The Rx values:
- Quality need not be sacrificed for profitability.
- Effective response to clients’ needs comes from understanding their point of view, not imposing our own.
- Communication at all levels and at all stages is the key to understanding and progress.
- Systems and processes can be created to deliver highest quality and reduce opportunities for error and failure.
- The company’s goals will be achieved by an open, supportive culture in which individuals recognise the contribution of others, celebrate their achievements, and strive to be the best they can be.
Rx: The prescription for quality
Our Experience
In Rx, we subdivide/classify our clients’ projects into 26 different therapy areas. Here are two of our therapy areas and some of our experiences in them.
Please contact us if you want to know about our experience in other areas or more about our other expertise in these.
Rx experience in health economics:
- Developed 11 HE-based communications and publications plans, internal and external
- Wrote HTA policy document for internal use
- Managed and facilitated payer advisory boards
- Helped write up-skilling and monitoring plan for HE department employees
- Created booklets that explain and teach HE concepts, comparative effectiveness, EBM, PROs, Value demonstration, biostatistics
- Audited Outcomes, HE and Pricing departments
- Assisted HE departments in publications ethics and compliance
- Designed, performed and published over 20 systematic and non-systematic literature reviews to support HE models, determine business needs and define research designs
- Over 800 HE-related projects since business started in November 2000
Our experience within the oncology therapeutic area:
- Over 222 projects successfully completed in Oncology since 2000
- 87 writers with oncology experience
Key areas of expertise:
- Breast cancer, Lung cancer, (non-small cell, small cell and mesothelioma), Myeloma
- Ovarian cancer, Gastric cancer, Pancreatic cancer, melanoma, leukaemia
- Bladder cancer, Prostate cancer, head and neck cancer
Projects include:
- Strategic publications and communications plans – completed four strategic publications plans in oncology
- Abstracts, Posters, Manuscripts, Reviews (accounts for approximately 60% of completed projects)
- Benchmarking & Competitor analysis
- Videos – produced and designed an exhibition video for health economics work in breast, lung, gastric and pancreatic cancer
- Detail aids, Product monographs – produced several of each
- Opinion leader management – conducted steering committee meetings, ad boards and surveys
- Produced two global value dossiers for oncology products
Challenges and successes:
- Successfully gave a stagnant IIR programme momentum, resulting in the publication of ten useful studies
- Designed and facilitated a large team workshop to reconsider publications planning and to generate over 30 new ideas for publications and communications
- Developed a comprehensive sales training tool, SHARP guide, on a contentious study, generating global interest
Ethics & Compliance
Rx ethics:
Rx Communications have formalised Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) to ensure the highest quality and consistency in delivering projects.
Our SOPs safeguard a number of areas such as:
- Data integrity and security
- Quality assurance
- Confidentiality and copyright
- Conflict of interest
- Monitoring ethical standards
Rx compliance:
Why Choose Us?
With added value at every stage of the project, you have never had an agency deliver so exceptionally.
At Rx Communications, the individual accomplishes a great deal, but the team accomplishes more. We work together so that we can respond to our clients’ interestingly complex scenarios with imagination, energy and commitment.
So what makes us stand out from the crowd?
- Our understanding of strategy and tactical planning
- Our responsiveness to client feedback and commitment to continuous improvement
- Our efficient flexible systems that ensure quality without limiting your options
- Our strength in health economics and outcomes research, alongside our clinical and preclinical experience
- We stick to what we’re good at; we won’t tell you we can do something if we can’t.
- We maintain the highest ethical standards; we won’t give your competitors your projects as work samples, or vice versa; we follow GPP3 guidelines and keep you on the straight and narrow.
- We only use highly experienced writers – all have 5+ years of experience. We have over 1650 person-years experience on offer.
- Our networking model gives you flexibility, capacity and dedicated resources.
- We’re the best at communicating HEOR to any audience clearly, logically and accurately.
Rx constantly goes beyond the expectations of a medical communications agency, delivering service levels that simply don’t exist anywhere else.
Rx Career Opportunities
Project Managers & Senior Project Managers
Rx is currently looking for Project Managers and Senior Project Managers.
Editorial Staff
Senior Medical Writers, Medical Writers, Trainee Medical Writers and Editorial Assistants – yes, we want you too! We have a number of in-house positions available.
We are looking for enthusiastic, fanatically accurate people with the right attitude, heart and spirit to join our very happy team. Rx has a special, quirky culture that celebrates differences without sacrificing our commitment to consistent excellence – would you fit in?
How To Apply
To apply, simply fill in the form below and we’ll be in touch. Alternatively, please send us your CV, together with covering letter, to recruitment@rxcomms.com.
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