Bridgehead Communications

About

Specialists in the sectors where reputation is hardest to win.

Bridgehead is a specialist PR and public affairs agency for healthcare, care, corporate and education. We are experts in thought leadership, policy and reputation, and every account is led by people who have done the underlying work.

Why we exist

Specialist by design, not generalist by default.

Healthcare, care, corporate and education are not generalist briefs. The audiences are harder, the scrutiny is closer and the cost of a misjudged message is higher. Too many agencies treat them like ordinary brands.

We do one thing, properly: communications for organisations where reputation is regulated, contested and consequential. That focus is why our work lands where it counts, in the press that matters and the rooms that decide.

What we are known for

Three disciplines, one team.

01

Thought leadership

We turn genuine expertise into profile, the coverage and platforms that make our clients the name their sector trusts.

02

Policy

We open the doors that matter, putting our clients in front of MPs, peers, ministers and officials, and into the rooms where decisions are made.

03

Reputation

We build reputations that compound and protect them when they are tested, from corporate positioning to out-of-hours crisis.

Senior-led

The people who do the work are the people you hired.

No account juniors learning on your brief. Every engagement is led by a partner who has practised as a clinician, sat in government or written for the nationals.

Meet the team
  • Dr Sheel Mehta

    Practising NHS Oncology Consultant · Clinical Lead

  • Rt Hon Damian Green

    Former Deputy Prime Minister · Chair, The Social Care Foundation

  • Former national journalists

    FT, Reuters and national newsroom experience

  • Political & policy advisers

    First-hand Whitehall, DfE and ministerial experience

1.4bn
Reader reach across UK national press in the last 12 months
200+
Healthcare, care, corporate and education campaigns delivered
12 yrs
Average partner-level experience

Speak with us

One conversation tells you
if we're the right fit.

Thirty minutes with a partner. We'll tell you whether we can help, what the work would look like, and what it's likely to cost, before either of us commits to anything.