Importance of stakeholders relationship in healthcare​ public affairs​

Building Strong Public Affairs Strategies to Shape your Policy Environment

We accelerate patient access by strategically engaging with key stakeholders, including patient organizations, learned societies, regulators, payers, and healthcare decision-makers at the global, EU and national levels. We help our clients build strong, long-lasting relationships with these stakeholders to actively shape policy environments. This approach helps position our clients as drivers of policies which improve patients’ care pathways and healthcare systems as whole and ensures that key stakeholders understand the added value of our clients’ products therein.

Consulting expertise in building professional relationships in healthcare public affairs

Your trusted partner in public affairs and coalition building

  • Navigating Complex Healthcare Systems: We provide key political insights for our clients to better understand their launching environment and help them build strong public affairs strategies to support their products’ market entry, pricing and reimbursement negotiations.
  • Strategic Stakeholder Engagement: We build meaningful relationships with patient organizations, learned societies, key regulators, payers, and healthcare decision-makers, ensuring alignment on patient access priorities.
  • Coalition Building: We closely work with patient representatives and healthcare professionals involved in specific therapeutic areas to work on powerful messaging promoting improved access to healthcare innovation, to be shared by key decision-makers.
  • Policy Shaping and Advocacy: We advocate for favourable policy changes that support faster patient access to innovative therapies, addressing concrete policy recommendations to be implemented at the global, EU and national levels.

Nextep’s strategic insights and in-depth knowledge of public health issues and of the national healthcare system have been invaluable in building strong relationships with our stakeholders. Their ability to align industry objectives with public health priorities sets them apart as a true partner in advancing meaningful change for patients.

Director of Public Affairs, Pharmaceutical Company

Nextep has been instrumental in amplifying our voice and mission at the local level. Their understanding of the field combined with an ability to create powerful messaging have brought patient concerns to the forefront of public health debates in France.

President, Patient Association

Nextep introduced us to the importance of a rigorous public affairs strategy to support our market access procedures. We are delighted to have started this adventure with them, to bring in concrete policy change for patients and facilitate their access to innovative medicines in the long-term.

Market Access Director, Pharmaceutical Company

Nextep has a unique approach of putting together experts around the table, from learned societies to patient organizations to institutional representatives, to initiate thinking on improving care pathways and working on concrete policy measures to facilitate patient access.

President, Collective of Healthcare Organization

Nextep has allowed to us to make key national and European policymakers aware of our policy issue through a rigorous methodology and strong message-building, providing us with highly strategic counsel throughout our mission.

CEO, Biotechnology company

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