A focal point for UK healthcare resources

HealthIndex UK is a focal point for all parties involved in healthcare - patients, carers, healthcare professionals and managers - and is the ideal forum for information, news, views and discussions on all UK healthcare issues.

HealthIndex UK is a valuable resource for patients seeking advice and information or who wish to exchange views and experiences.

HealthIndex UK actively encourages communication between all parties involved in UK healthcare - patients, carers, and their support organisations, through to NHS management, private healthcare providers and pharmaceutical companies.

Opportunities for HealthIndex UK partners

The Internet is the fastest growing - and potentially the most influential medium of the next ten years. HealthIndex UK partners will use this new medium to complement traditional communications, and enhance the effectiveness of their overall healthcare communications.

There is a variety of ways that HealthIndex UK partners - including patient groups and healthcare companies - can use this initiative to enhance patient awareness, PR and/or medical education communications objectives:

• sponsorship of healthcare communities
  • e.g. AIDS, Alzheimer's disease, arthritis, asthma, diabetes, eczema, epilepsy, hyperlipidaemia, hypertension, impotence, obesity, post-menopause, etc.
• support and/or provision of news services
  • including specific news items
• support of specific informative and/or educational programmes
  • ranging from patient advice through to physician training
• sponsorship of discussion areas for patients/carers
  • including support of expert moderators, as appropriate
• sponsorship of 'virtual meetings'
  • ranging from on-line, parallel meetings, to Internet-only conferences
• sponsorship of 'ask a specialist' areas
  • including funding of specialist, as appropriate
• sponsorship of 'frequently-asked-questions' areas
  • including provision of hyperlinks, as appropriate
• sponsorship of hyperlinks to sites of direct relevance
  • possibly organisation's/company's own web sites
• sponsorship of on-line communities and other areas of the site
  • most areas of the site may be sponsored, subject to editorial discretion

Becoming a HealthIndex UK partner

If you want to participate in this exciting initiative, and become a HealthIndex UK partner, you need to speak to the originators of the concept: Acumen Solutions.

Acumen Solutions is a specialist Internet company with extensive experience in healthcare and medical applications on the Web. Visit our Web site - www.acumen-solutions.co.uk - for an introduction to Acumen and our work.

Contact Keith Pollard or Sarah Ward now on 01442 385000, or email healthindex@acumen-solutions.co.uk for more information.

Acumen Solutions
Concept House
271 High Street
Berkhamsted
Herts
HP4 1AA
Tel: 01442 385000
Fax: 01442 385004

Acumen Solutions is a specialist Internet company with extensive experience in healthcare and medical applications on the Web. Visit our Web site - Erectile Dysfunction - for an introduction to Acumen and our work.