About
Specialists in the sectors where reputation is hardest to win.
Bridgehead is a specialist PR and public affairs agency for healthcare, care, corporate and education. We are experts in thought leadership, policy and reputation, and every account is led by people who have done the underlying work.
Why we exist
Specialist by design, not generalist by default.
Healthcare, care, corporate and education are not generalist briefs. The audiences are harder, the scrutiny is closer and the cost of a misjudged message is higher. Too many agencies treat them like ordinary brands.
We do one thing, properly: communications for organisations where reputation is regulated, contested and consequential. That focus is why our work lands where it counts, in the press that matters and the rooms that decide.
What we are known for
Three disciplines, one team.
Thought leadership
We turn genuine expertise into profile, the coverage and platforms that make our clients the name their sector trusts.
Policy
We open the doors that matter, putting our clients in front of MPs, peers, ministers and officials, and into the rooms where decisions are made.
Reputation
We build reputations that compound and protect them when they are tested, from corporate positioning to out-of-hours crisis.
Senior-led
The people who do the work are the people you hired.
No account juniors learning on your brief. Every engagement is led by a partner who has practised as a clinician, sat in government or written for the nationals.
Meet the teamDr Sheel Mehta
Practising NHS Oncology Consultant · Clinical Lead
Rt Hon Damian Green
Former Deputy Prime Minister · Chair, The Social Care Foundation
Former national journalists
FT, Reuters and national newsroom experience
Political & policy advisers
First-hand Whitehall, DfE and ministerial experience
What we build
Original data, published in the open.
CareTech Index
Market map and index of UK care-technology vendors.
MedTech Index
Index of UK medical-technology vendors.
LA Care Spending Index
Sortable table of adult social-care spend per adult across all 153 English upper-tier authorities.
Care Workforce Mismatch Index
290 English local authorities plotted by youth claimant rate against projected growth in the population aged 85 and over.
FAQs
About Bridgehead
Our office is Temple Chambers, 3-7 Temple Avenue, London EC4Y 0HP. We work with healthcare, care, corporate and education clients across the UK, remote-first day to day, and on site for media days, board briefings and crisis stand-ups.
Our healthcare and care work is shaped and signed off by Dr Sheel Mehta, a practising NHS Consultant, so messaging is medically sound before it reaches a journalist, a patient or a regulator.
Yes. Bridgehead Communications Ltd, founded 2020, registered in England and Wales, Company No. 12736276, DUNS 226070660.
Speak with us
One conversation tells you
if we're the right fit.
Thirty minutes with a partner. We'll tell you whether we can help, what the work would look like, and what it's likely to cost, before either of us commits to anything.
