Oyster Healthcare Communications
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Oyster is a member of the Compliance Hub's Agency Recognition and Training scheme.

Patient communications


Only people who live with a condition day-to-day really understand what it's like. All our materials have a strong patient voice.

Reach Magazine

Reach magazine, produced on behalf of Roche Diagnostics, helps people with diabetes live positively with their condition. Reach is a lifestyle magazine written and edited by people with diabetes and healthcare professionals. Reach contains a wealth of credible health information.

Stratify JCV - patient information

Oyster has written and produced a series of patient information leaflets specifically designed to communicate risk to patients. Risk is communicated using graphics, numbers and words to appeal to the widest range of learning styles and abilities. Patient editors helped make sure the tone was appropriate.

Subcutaneous infusion DVD

A film for patients with primary immune deficiencies, providing information to support self-infusion of medication at home.

The DVD features a detailed infusion demonstration by a specialist nurse and an interview with a patient who self-infuses at home.

Surgery consent packs

An audio CD featuring interviews with NACC members who had undergone major bowel surgery describes the reality of recovery and post-surgical quality of life for others considering an operation. An atlas of the major procedures gives surgeons a visual aid to help gain informed consent.

Patient Communications
"Reach magazine is an excellent read that offers great information about Diabetes. The magazine keeps me in touch with important issues such as early warning signs regarding my. Reading about the various activities in the 'People with passion' is uplifting."
Reach reader.