Publik’s health communications expertise comes from years of in-house department experience and external consultancy project support.

If you need support for your health organisation project, please get in touch.

The health sector in Te Tau Ihu is made up of a mix of organisations that form an integrated health system that serves a geographically dispersed population across urban, rural and remote communities.

Publik has provided external and internal communications, design, marketing and website services to the Nelson Marlborough District Health Board (NMDHB), Māori health provider Te Piki Oranga, both regional primary health organisations, the Nelson Tasman Hospice, and advocacy organisations and projects such as Age Concern, and Wellby.

Stephanie Gray brings indepth knowledge of the health sector having served as the Communications Manager at the NMDHB for X years, including during the Covid-19 pandemic. Since being at Publik she has led the communications projects for the agency’s health clients. This has included developing annual and campaign plans, supporting clients with internal communications, media relations……

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SECTOR SERVICES

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STRATEGIC PLANNING

Engagement and communications strategies focused on successful outcomes.

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WEBSITE DEVELOPMENT AND MANAGEMENT

New builds and existing website management.

We bult the Wellby website, and implemented upgrades for the Te Piki Oranga and Age Concern websites, to improve overall user experiences (internal and website visitors), membership sign up functionality, and searchability by AI search tools.
We also assist clients on their website updates, as required.

SOCIAL MEDIA MANAGEMENT

Proactive and reactive social media management.

Publik develops proactive forward planning social media content as required to support a campaign.
Our team monitors client Meta accounts, assisting with responses to public comments on posts, ensuring the client tone is maintained.

MEDIA RELATIONS

Achieving positive and balanced media coverage.

We have provided media relations support to health organisations as part of multi-layered PR campaigns, achieving positive media stories and opinion pieces in long-form magazines, newspapers, TV and radio.
Reactive responses to media on issues as they arise, in a fast turnaround media environment.
Media training for all spokespeople, to ensure they are ready to answer the tricky questions before a media interview.

DOCUMENT PRODUCTION

Production of engagement documents and company reports

Wrote and produced the annual reports for Te Piki Oranga for seven years.

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