Our team | Together4Health

Simon Williams

“Many organisations, whether large multi-nationals or smaller social enterprises, have gaps in their communication resources, either through staff moving on to other roles, or because financial constraints mean it is difficult to justify a full time appointment. The Together4Health concept provides affordable access to skilled consultants who can fill a gap for a specified period of time, or carry out a project with the requisite experience and knowledge.”

Simon has contact with an extensive network of decision-makers across the healthcare industry, including senior civil servants, politicians, leading patient advocacy groups and the commercial sector. Simon has organised successful campaigns on local and national issues from cleaner hospitals, counterfeit medicines to patient rights and safer medical devices.

Simon is founder and Director of Expect Health, which is a social enterprise that promotes quality of living for people affected by long term illness and was on the board of directors of The Patient Information Forum.

He is an Editorial Board Member for The British Journal of Healthcare Management and edited the supplement on Long Term Conditions.

Gillian Gibbons

“Together4Health specialises in working with healthcare organisations to find individual and flexible communications solutions.”

Gillian has more than two decades’ experience in PR and communications. A solid grounding gained in-house at major blue-chip companies, including nine years at Standard Life Healthcare and six years at financial services organisations GE Capital and Lloyds TSB, has equipped Gillian with expertise in a range of areas such as media management, integrated communication programmes and high level public affairs.

Six years ago, she founded Wychwood Communications and during this period Gillian has continued to build on her healthcare background with assignments ranging from patient and practitioner engagement programmes for West Kent PCT and BUPA Health Dialog to implementing PR and communication programmes for healthcare and medical technology start-ups in Oxfordshire.

Immediately prior to becoming a consultant, Gillian worked for Standard Life Healthcare, where she had responsibility for the Press Office and Public Affairs.

During this period Gillian worked with the DoH and other key figures in healthcare to develop public healthcare programmes and with the Treasury to explore healthcare funding programmes.

More recently, she has been working on clinical and patient engagement programmes within the Public sector, and providing consultation on a social and health welfare funding initiative.

Gillian is also an experienced media and communications mentor and she provides media programmes that are run in association with practising print and broadcast journalists.