Bridgehead Communications
Healthcare PR

Evidence into
authority.

We turn clinical data and expertise into front-of-mind national news, from The Times and Healio to broadcast.

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The promise

Coverage that builds trust, not just reach.

In healthcare, reputation is clinical before it is commercial. We earn the coverage that makes patients, referrers and regulators trust you, and we make sure every claim behind it is one a clinician would defend.

1.4bn
Reader reach across UK national press
200+
Healthcare campaigns delivered
NHS
Consultant leadership on every account

On the record

The coverage does the talking

A live feed of where our work has been showing up — real placements, real titles, real reach.

What it buys you

A reputation that refers

01

Clinical profile

Your consultants positioned as the trusted voice on their field, in the national health desks and the trade press that referrers read.

02

Thought leadership that lands

Evidence-led commentary and bylines that journalists actually run, because the argument holds and the author is credible.

03

Issues handled early

The judgement to see a patient-safety or regulatory story coming and shape it before it shapes you.

04

Credibility with regulators

A public record of accurate, responsible communication that helps when CQC, the GMC or the press come asking.

How we work

The story is checked before it is pitched

Dr Sheel Mehta, a practising NHS Consultant, leads the practice. A clinician shapes and signs off the narrative, so when a health journalist tests it, it holds. That is the difference between being quoted and being corrected.

We pitch ideas the health desks want, built on real evidence and the right spokesperson, and we hold standing relationships with the journalists who cover the sector. Fewer, better placements in the titles that move opinion.

When something goes wrong, our reputation and crisis team steps in, and PR sits alongside healthcare marketing in the wider healthcare practice.

Who we work with

Across healthcare

  • Consultants in private practice
  • Private hospital groups
  • Specialist clinics
  • Healthtech and digital health
  • Medical Royal Colleges
  • NHS Trusts and ICBs

FAQs

What providers ask us

We build and protect clinical reputation through earned media: profile and thought leadership in the national health desks and trade press, message development that survives a journalist's questions, and the credibility that referrers and regulators take seriously. It is PR aimed at trust, not just column inches.

Because a health journalist will test a claim, and a regulator will test it harder. Our work is led by Dr Sheel Mehta, a practising NHS Consultant, so the story is medically accurate before it is pitched. That is what gets you quoted as a trusted voice rather than corrected in public.

Yes. We provide clinically-trained, out-of-hours support for patient-safety incidents, CQC and GMC matters, and media exposés, working alongside your clinical governance and legal teams. See our reputation and crisis work for how we handle live situations.

By the quality and tier of coverage in the titles your patients, referrers and regulators actually read, share of voice on the issues you want to own, and how often your clinicians are the ones journalists call. We report against reputation and referral, not raw reach.

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.