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Standards and Best Practice Committee
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Standards and Best Practice Committee
Committee Chair
– Alister Sansum, Independent.
Objective:
To develop best practice standards/guides & support best practice in innovation and creativity, measurement and evaluation, roll out an agency accreditation standard with HCA as the accreditor and embed diversity and inclusion in all activity.
Committee Members:
Name
Organisation
Alister Sansum
Communications Consultant
Rick Evans
90TEN
Pamela Harrison
Abbott
Miles Jervis-Denison
ApotheCom
Sarah Savage
Communications Consultant
Mike Dixon
HCA
Working Group: Innovation Uncovered.
Objective: To publish quarterly journals online to share insights on innovation in healthcare communications
Name
Organisation
Rick Evans
90TEN
Stuart Mayell
Independent
Edel McCaffrey
LGC Group
Working Group: Best Practice Guides.
Objective: To provide guidance to those in the sector on key topic areas.
Name
Organisation
Rick Evans
90TEN
Antonia Katsambis
Independent
Brian McMunn
Oxford PharmaGenesis
Ellie Selby
Oxford PharmaGenesis
Working Group: Agency Accreditation.
Objective: To run a pilot scheme for the HCA to assess agencies against agreed aims.
Name
Organisation
Miles Jervis- Denison
Apothecom
Sarah Savage
Independent
Working Group: Evaluation.
Objective: To promote the importance of measurement and evaluation and to provide practical support to help teams integrate into their work.
Name
Organisation
Will Chapman
Independent
Sarah Hart
Four Health
Sian Hurst
Clark Health Communications