Insights.
Ideas.
Collaboration.
We are a strategic health communications consultancy.
Experts in identifying insights and translating them into successful programmes.
We thrive in the complex healthcare environment, finding solutions to an ever-changing mix of challenges and working closely with a range of stakeholders to help deliver them.
Insights. Ideas. Collaboration.
Our focus
Patients
Run by the leadership team behind a patient organisation (Sinus UK), we believe passionately about improving the role patients can play in the treatment and management of their own health.
Healthcare Professionals
A trusted partner to many within the NHS. We work in collaboration with healthcare professionals to provide education and engagement that helps them to improve the lives of patients.
Health Services
We support the set up, improvement and innovation of health services both on a local level and from a system-wide perspective.
Our services
We have the expertise, experience and creativity to find that unknown insight and translate it into a deliverable idea
Insights
We generate insights into internal and external audiences through qualitative research, tackling a range of areas:
Communication
We then translate those insights into tailored communications activities which we develop and deliver in collaboration with a range of stakeholders.
Our experience
Our experts
A small team of senior experts in their field
With over 25 years’ experience in communications, Andrew is an expert in identifying the unmet needs of healthcare professionals and patients and translating them into targeted communications programmes.
He founded strategic health communications consultancy Opus in 2011 and patient association Sinus UK in 2021. He is passionate about improving the role patients can play in the treatment and management of their own health and is an active patient advocate.
Andrew is also an excellent facilitator, combining his intelligence with a sense of humour honed (sometimes unsuccessfully) through doing stand-up comedy.
Before joining Opus, Naomi was a solicitor in the City for 14 years, specialising in dispute resolution and commercial fraud. Her extensive business knowledge, organisational skills and rigorous approach have provided a foundation that has been vital to Opus’ success. Naomi is also a co-founder of the patient organisation Sinus UK.
Naomi worked as a food writer and recipe developer for several years. She has a strong digital background and has written extensively for print and online publications. She is passionate about using her skills by volunteering as a cook for the charity Foodcycle and organising fundraising events for her local Foodbank.
An expert in the field of branding and visual communication, Martyn has over 30 years’ experience of creating cross-media corporate and consumer campaigns, exhibitions and events, interactive A/V, wayfinding/information schemes, and graphic environments.
Whilst having worked for clients as diverse as the Environment Agency, Imperial War Museum, Accenture, Penguin Books and the Arts Council, Martyn has a particular specialism in the healthcare and pharma arena, creating award-winning work for organisations such as Pfizer, AstraZeneca, GlaxoSmithKline, Anthony Nolan Trust and Sinus UK.
Our insights
We constantly challenge ourselves to know more
We regularly compile reports to better understand the environment in which our clients operate
