Welcome

Onyx Health is a specialist healthcare marketing communications and PR with proven knowledge and expertise in helping SME healthcare businesses or those products that require a niche marketing approach enter highly competitive UK and global markets. We are now based in the North East but have successfully worked with many global pharmaceutical, device and diagnostic companies.

Who we are & what we know

We are a team of highly experienced marketing communications, PR, health policy and medical education practitioners who develop integrated marketing communications programmes for pharmaceutical, device and diagnostic companies.

Our integrated approach, scientific knowledge and understanding of market issues enable us to manage communications challenges and deliver clear business value to our clients. More...

How we work

At Onyx Health we pride ourselves on giving senior level expertise, strategic insight and support to our clients. To ensure we achieve your objectives we spend time with you, getting to know your business, understanding the issues and opportunities in your market and create a best practice team around your communication needs.More...

Why Onyx Health

Entering today’s healthcare market requires specialist healthcare expertise and the creative passion to really want to make a difference. At Onyx Health that we have a clear understanding of who and what influences current thinking and decision-making in healthcare markets. We are creative, innovative and passionate about our work, enabling us to offer our clients integrated creative communications programmes that maximise customer engagement and action.More...

Latest Entries

25th January 2012

Good PR = repetition, relevance, relationships, recommendation, reputation

Every company loves a great piece of media coverage about themselves or their products, but once the euphoria of what has been achieved has died down the reality of its impact can be quite disappointing. The coverage may have created awareness about the product but did it actually encourage anyone to start prescribing or using it? Too often media relations is seen as a simple way to create awareness but done in isolation it is equivalent to having your 15 minutes of fame on X Factor and then been forgotten about.

9th January 2012

The different types of PR

There are many different types of PR which are dependent on the nature of your market and the stage in its lifecycle your product is in. A typical PR agency may have expertise in corporate, financial, consumer, business-to-business PR and public affairs (lobbying). Some agencies will also have practice groups that specialise in certain markets [...]

Karen Winterhalter

Driven by an innate passion and desire to deliver marketing communications programmes that really make a difference to healthcare, I founded Onyx Health in 2002, a company that has been at the forefront of developing healthcare digital marketing programmes. More...

North East

Onyx Health is the only specialist healthcare marketing communications and PR consultancy based in the North East. Relocating from London to specifically support the growing healthcare and life science business based in the region we offer our clients the knowledge and expertise in how to enter UK and global markets.

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