Our Sponsors past and present Write....

Child Bereavement Trust

Thank you all so much for the helpful and efficient way that you as a team responded in January 2001 when manning The Child Bereavement Trust helpline, which the Department of Health supported.

Your team of dedicated nurses provided a truly sensitive service to bereaved families telephoning about their concerns in relation to their children’s organs being retained. These were sad and difficult calls and we have heard how appropriately you responded.

Jenni Thomas - Chief Executive
 

GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare

We are constantly striving to improve the way in which we provide information to customers and through a variety of customer care lines and information services, we aim to provide timely and appropriate responses to all enquiries. In the distribution of patient information leaflets, we are grateful to MAS for dealing with requests promptly and helpfully, whether for single leaflets or larger orders. Being able to work with a local medical charity in backing up our educational campaigns has been very helpful.

Catherine McAleese - Corporate Communications
 

Healthcare Solutions PR Consultancy

In order to prepare appropriate patient consumer PR programmes it is essential to understand what is needed, the level to which it can be understood, and used by the general public. Working for a client on a consumer campaign, we were delighted to access the professional skills and experience of the MAS nursing team to assist in an asthma and sleep disturbance survey. The subject of insomnia is complex and sufferers all evaluate their sleep disturbances differently. It was crucial to the production of successful and appropriate patient communication and literature to be able to discuss the impact that asthma and resulting poor sleep has on people’s lives.

Not only did the MAS nurses conduct professional and helpful interviews with asthma sufferers who called in to discuss their sleep problems; they were also excellent at providing them with practical advice and information. This service continues to provide help for sleep problem sufferers, all over the country and we are very grateful to MAS for their assistance with the project.

Sarah Rogers - Managing Director
 

Yakult UK Limited

Yakult UK is pleased to acknowledge the help and co-operation of the Medical Advisory Service.

In September 2000 and 2001 the dedicated, highly professional team of MAS nurses has operated the ‘Gut Week’ helpline. This very successful partnership has enabled thousands of callers to access appropriate levels of information, advice and support about their ‘gut’ problems, and what can be done to help with the distressing symptoms.

Requests from the media and health professionals, comments from callers and other organisations, remind us that the provision of an easily accessible helpline is now considered an essential service.

Yakult UK is delighted to have the opportunity of sponsoring the ‘Gut Week’ helpline and we look forward to continuing co-operation with MAS in future years.

Julie Causton - PR Consumer Manager

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