PiF Partners and Supporters
The Patient Information Forum is a not for profit organisation that relies on the support of its members to carry out its work.
PiF Partner membership is a mutually beneficial relationship that enables the Partner member organisation and PiF to grow and develop. PiF Partner membership is a bespoke arrangement that takes account of an organisation's specific needs as well as providing them with a core set of benefits. Any organisation that complements PiF's vision, values and services can apply to become a PiF Partner.
PiF Supporter is a membership scheme for large organisations who want to make a significant contribution to improving the patient experience as well as demonstrating their commitment to high quality health information for patients and the public. It is a specific membership package that combines practical benefits for staff with opportunities to promote and publicise an organisation's work and to join with others to help influence and develop policy.
Our Partners and supporters are listed here. All of the organisations listed help PiF in a number of ways, by donating their expertise, time and resources as well as supporting us financially. If you wish to find out more about working with PiF please contact Mark Duman at chair@pifonline.org.uk
PiF Partners
Capita
Capita Health is a fully integrated business division of Capita PLC, the UK’s leading business process outsourcing (BPO) and professional services company. With 600 staff, the Health Division supports its clients with a range of business process, informatics, research and governance skills, to deliver services that either support front-line health care delivery or provide information to improve both effectiveness and efficiency.
Capita Health has expanded significantly in the last two years with growth in two key areas. First, by securing large outsourcing contracts such as NHS Choices (www.nhs.uk), the NHS’s primary public facing website; the Business Services Authority; and the new Information Standard. Second, through the acquisition and development of businesses such as CSKS (health informatics); CRC (health economics); Membership Services (governance to Foundation Trusts); HSP (staff and patient surveys for the NHS); Inventures (health property advisers); and Health Solutions (occupational health services).
www.capita.co.uk/markets/pages/healthoffering.aspx
LEO Pharma
LEO Pharma is a major international research-based pharmaceutical company wholly owned by the LEO Foundation. As global leaders in the treatment of dermatological and thromboembolic disorders, LEO products are marketed in more than 100 countries worldwide.
LEO Pharma is owned entirely by the LEO Foundation therefore with no shareholders, we are able to re-invest in what really matters – pioneering treatment for the benefit of patients. LEO Pharma is also committed to helping healthcare providers deliver quality patient care through innovative redesign of healthcare services in the evolving NHS along with the provision of comprehensive patient support and education.
www.leo-pharma.co.uk
Boehringer Ingelheim
The Boehringer Ingelheim group is one of the world’s 20 leading pharmaceutical companies. Headquartered in Ingelheim, Germany, it operates globally with 145 affiliates and more than 42,000 employees. Since it was founded in 1885, the family-owned company has been committed to researching, developing, manufacturing and marketing novel products of high therapeutic value for human and veterinary medicine.
For Boehringer Ingelheim - and its employees - carrying a good share of social responsibility is an important component in its business culture. Both global commitments in social projects and properly caring for all its employees are included. Respect, equal opportunity, and the balance of career and family life form the basis for mutual cooperation. And, environmental protection and sustainability are always the main focus during any of Boehringer Ingelheim’s undertakings.
In 2010, Boehringer Ingelheim posted net sales of about 12.6 billion euro while spending almost 24% of net sales in its largest business segment Prescription Medicines on research and development.
PiF Supporters
Merck Sharp & Dohme Limited
Merck Sharp & Dohme Limited (MSD) is the UK subsidiary of Merck & Co., Inc., of Whitehouse Station, New Jersey, USA, a leading research-based pharmaceutical company that discovers, develops, manufactures and markets a wide range of innovative pharmaceutical products to improve human health.
www.msd-uk.co.uk
Macmillan Cancer Support
Macmillan Cancer Support improves the lives of people affected by cancer. They provide practical, medical, emotional and financial support and push for better cancer care. As part of the services they offer, Macmillan provides up-to-date information about living with cancer. They offer a wide range of information, for patients and their families and friends, and can direct people to other sources of support – available from Macmillan as well as other health and social care organisations. They give information and support in a number of ways. Through:
- information and support centres in hospitals and in the community
- Mobile Macmillan Cancer Information Centres
- Macmillan CancerLine
- Macmillan nurses, doctors and other health and social care professionals and volunteers, booklets, leaflets and other resources
Bupa
Bupa has a dedicated team that works to produce and regularly update over 1,000 online pages of free and trusted health information for consumers on conditions, procedures, treatments and healthy living. There are overviews on more than 500 health topics, many of which contain high-quality colour illustrations and animations. There are also practical answers to common health questions and a series of short, interactive videos of practical demonstrations.
All Bupa’s information is written by professional health writers and is reviewed by medically-qualified experts. It complies with the HON code standard for trustworthy health information and was awarded accreditation in 2008. Bupa is one of 40 organisations selected by the UK Department of Health to test a new scheme to ‘kite mark’ information across the health and social care sector. This will help the public and professionals to know that the information they are reading can be trusted.
www.bupa.co.uk/health_information/
Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI)
The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI) has 150 members including the large majority of the research-based pharmaceutical companies operating in the UK, both large and small. These member companies research, develop, manufacture and supply more than 80 per cent of the medicines prescribed through the National Health Service (NHS).
www.abpi.org.uk
Microsoft
Founded in 1975, Microsoft is the worldwide leader in computer software, services, and solutions. Microsoft provides a number of services and solutions to the health sector in the UK. HealthVault launched in the UK in 2010 and offers people a central repository for health data, such as information on diet, exercise, weight and blood pressure, where this information can be entered manually or automatically from a range of compatible devices including weight scales, blood pressure monitors and pedometers.
www.microsoft.co.uk/healthsolutions
www.healthvault.co.uk
UCB
UCB (Brussels, Belgium) is a global biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery and development of innovative medicines and solutions to transform the lives of people living with severe diseases of the immune system or of the central nervous system. UCB employs more than 8 500 people in about 40 countries.
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