Cheshire, UK (Date, 2011) – Global B2B strategic communications agency The Scott Partnership has been appointed by Synergy Health (UK) Ltd. to support growth in its Hospital Sterile Services division.
Synergy is a leading provider of outsourced and managed decontamination services for reprocessing surgical instruments, processing more than 60 million surgical instruments per year for Acute NHS Trusts, NHS primary care providers and healthcare operators in the private sector. With 18 sterile service facilities, Synergy is the UK’s market leader in the provision of this service.
The client is being managed by The Scott Partnership’s Healthcare division whose brief is to engage stakeholders around Synergy’s innovative operating model which improves service and instrument processing quality, while significantly reducing operating costs.
Mike Langhorn, Synergy’s Commercial Director said: “We chose The Scott Partnership for their invaluable NHS experience and wide knowledge of the healthcare sector. This makes them a valued partner in positioning our hospital sterile services as a viable solution to enhance patient safety, improve quality and reduce costs – critical to today’s NHS.”
“This welcome addition to The Scott Partnership’s portfolio is a significant step in our continued expansion - further strengthening our customer base and presence in the healthcare sector,” adds Kath Darlington, CEO. “This account very much plays to our strengths and joins many existing clients who specialise in contract outsourcing and where high-level clinical engagement is critical.”
Based near Manchester, UK, The Scott Partnership is a specialist business-to-business PR agency for the healthcare, scientific, technology and pharmaceutical industries and which has grown to become one of the leading communications consultancies in Europe. Founded in 1996, the company’s accelerated growth plan has seen it establish offices in Boston and Shanghai in the past three years as well as its recent acquisition of Kapler Communications, a Bedfordshire-based life sciences consultancy.
For more information on The Scott Partnership, please call +44 (0)1477 539 539. Alternatively e-mail business@scottpr.com or visit www.scottpr.com.
Tuesday, 11 October 2011
The World's Biggest Coffee Morning!
Last week we took part in a charity event for a very worthy cause, Macmillan Cancer Support. The coffee morning is a national event which started as a small gathering, organised by a local fundraising committee in 1990. It is now is a hugely recognised event, taking place in offices, schools, universities and fundraising societies all over the country. It has grown massively since its inception and has turned into the world’s biggest coffee morning, 43,000 people signed up and took part last year!
Monday, 10 October 2011
Thermo Fisher Scientific Introduces New Informatics Solution for Water and Environmental Testing Laboratories
PHILADELPHIA (October 10, 2011) – Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced a new informatics solution specifically developed for laboratory professionals working in water and environmental testing laboratories. The Thermo Scientific Water and Environmental LIMS is preconfigured to enable customers to comply with water and environmental regulatory guidelines and requirements, and it is built on the comprehensive functionality provided by the company’s flagship laboratory information management system, Thermo Scientific SampleManager LIMS. The company will showcase the Water and Environmental LIMS at Thermo Scientific booth # 4145 during WEFTEC 2011, being held October 17 - 19, in Los Angeles.
Friday, 7 October 2011
A Day at the Races
Friday 9th September was the first decent day, weather wise, that we had seen in a while. Perfect timing as it was the day of The Scott Partnership’s trip to the Chester Races. Our southern partners Kapler, along with our sister company Scott Brothers Ltd. came along for the day which made it a big day out. After an excited morning at work, we piled onto the coach at lunchtime clutching our copies of the daily Racing Post in hope of winning some money. On the coach we were given our county concourse badges for admission which allowed us access to more of the course than most other ticket options. We were able to see the Paddocks Parade Ring and the Winners Enclosure, as well as having access to fine dining, various bars and an exclusive champagne bar. A pretty good deal I’d say!
Thursday, 6 October 2011
Thermo Fisher Scientific Leading Mass Spectrometry Systems Selected by CVUA-MEL to Ensure Food Safety with Rapid and Reliable Contaminant Analysis
SAN JOSE, California (October 05, 2011) – Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced that the Chemical and Veterinary Analytical Institute Münsterland-Emscher-Lippe (CVUA-MEL) has standardized on Thermo Scientific LC-MS and GC-MS systems for routine analyses of contaminants in food, feed and human samples. The CVUA-MEL requires extremely high resolution and highly sensitive instruments that can analyze small molecular weight contaminants in samples quickly and accurately and to the lowest limits of detection (LOD). Following a call to tender, which involved evaluation testing and result comparisons of a broad range of competitor products, the CVUA-MEL selected the Thermo Scientific Exactive benchtop MS coupled with the Transcend TLX system and DFS high resolution GC-MS systems. For information on how the systems help the CVUA-MEL ensure regulatory compliance, increase sample throughput and achieve greater sensitivity and improved accuracy, please see a detailed case study which is available to download: www.thermoscientific.com/fsnews
Tuesday, 4 October 2011
Thermo Fisher Scientific Announces New Method for Precise and Reliable Analysis of Oil
ECUBLENS, Switzerland (October 3, 2011) – Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced that it has developed a new precise and reliable method for elemental analysis of oil samples in the petrochemical industry. The innovative method uses the Thermo Scientific ARL PERFORM’X X-ray fluorescence (XRF) spectrometer to create a flexible and high-performance solution that is capable of reaching detection limits of below 0.5 parts per million (ppm). The new method, which covers a wide range of applications including the analysis of sulfur in oil and lead in gasoline, is detailed in an application note entitled “Analysis of Oils,” available to download free-of-charge via www.thermoscientific.com/performx.
Petrochemical regulations are becoming increasingly strict and are demanding lower levels of quantification for key elements such as sulfur, nickel, vanadium and lead in products. Compliance with various norms, including ASTM D2622, ASTM D4927 and ISO 20884, requires a method that can offer high sensitivity and stability to ensure content conforms to regulatory limits. The new Thermo Fisher method uses wavelength dispersive XRF (WDXRF), which is increasingly being used for analyses in the petroleum industry and has many advantages over traditional methods. This technique offers excellent repeatability and resolution, particularly for light elements such as sodium and calcium. In addition, it allows oils to be measured directly without dilution, which significantly reduces sample preparation time and increases speed and throughput of analyses.
Designed for demanding laboratories, the ARL PERFORM’X system offers dual sample loading and is able to process more than 60 samples per hour, offering rapid and precise analysis of up to 84 elements including sulfur, nickel, vanadium and lead. The instrument provides the highest standards of safety with an innovative sample recognition capability that ensures safe and straightforward loading of liquids. With its helium shutter, the ARL PERFORM’X completely protects the goniometer from chemical attacks and thermo instability by separating the primary chamber for the spectral chamber. The system also offers unmatched stability and repeatability of results, making it ideally suited to solving complex composition problems in demanding industrial applications.
The ARL PERFORM’X instrument features the latest version of the state-of-the-art Thermo Scientific OXSAS software, which is able to operate with Microsoft Windows® 7 to ensure simple and trouble-free analyses. Users also benefit from a synoptic panel that mimics real-time operation and internal functioning of the instrument on a separate display screen, enabling users to monitor the status of their analyses and improve productivity as a result of the software’s fast and accurate reporting capabilities.
For more information about the new Thermo Scientific ARL PERFORM’X and to obtain a copy of the new application note, please call +1 800-532-4752, email analyze@thermofisher.com or visit www.thermoscientific.com/performx.
About Thermo Fisher Scientific
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (NYSE: TMO) is the world leader in serving science. Our mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. With revenues of nearly $11 billion, we have approximately 37,000 employees and serve customers within pharmaceutical and biotech companies, hospitals and clinical diagnostic labs, universities, research institutions and government agencies, as well as in environmental and process control industries. We create value for our key stakeholders through two premier brands, Thermo Scientific and Fisher Scientific, which offer a unique combination of continuous technology development and the most convenient purchasing options. Our products and services help accelerate the pace of scientific discovery, and solve analytical challenges ranging from complex research to routine testing to field applications. Visit www.thermofisher.com.
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Petrochemical regulations are becoming increasingly strict and are demanding lower levels of quantification for key elements such as sulfur, nickel, vanadium and lead in products. Compliance with various norms, including ASTM D2622, ASTM D4927 and ISO 20884, requires a method that can offer high sensitivity and stability to ensure content conforms to regulatory limits. The new Thermo Fisher method uses wavelength dispersive XRF (WDXRF), which is increasingly being used for analyses in the petroleum industry and has many advantages over traditional methods. This technique offers excellent repeatability and resolution, particularly for light elements such as sodium and calcium. In addition, it allows oils to be measured directly without dilution, which significantly reduces sample preparation time and increases speed and throughput of analyses.
Designed for demanding laboratories, the ARL PERFORM’X system offers dual sample loading and is able to process more than 60 samples per hour, offering rapid and precise analysis of up to 84 elements including sulfur, nickel, vanadium and lead. The instrument provides the highest standards of safety with an innovative sample recognition capability that ensures safe and straightforward loading of liquids. With its helium shutter, the ARL PERFORM’X completely protects the goniometer from chemical attacks and thermo instability by separating the primary chamber for the spectral chamber. The system also offers unmatched stability and repeatability of results, making it ideally suited to solving complex composition problems in demanding industrial applications.
The ARL PERFORM’X instrument features the latest version of the state-of-the-art Thermo Scientific OXSAS software, which is able to operate with Microsoft Windows® 7 to ensure simple and trouble-free analyses. Users also benefit from a synoptic panel that mimics real-time operation and internal functioning of the instrument on a separate display screen, enabling users to monitor the status of their analyses and improve productivity as a result of the software’s fast and accurate reporting capabilities.
For more information about the new Thermo Scientific ARL PERFORM’X and to obtain a copy of the new application note, please call +1 800-532-4752, email analyze@thermofisher.com or visit www.thermoscientific.com/performx.
About Thermo Fisher Scientific
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (NYSE: TMO) is the world leader in serving science. Our mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. With revenues of nearly $11 billion, we have approximately 37,000 employees and serve customers within pharmaceutical and biotech companies, hospitals and clinical diagnostic labs, universities, research institutions and government agencies, as well as in environmental and process control industries. We create value for our key stakeholders through two premier brands, Thermo Scientific and Fisher Scientific, which offer a unique combination of continuous technology development and the most convenient purchasing options. Our products and services help accelerate the pace of scientific discovery, and solve analytical challenges ranging from complex research to routine testing to field applications. Visit www.thermofisher.com.
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Monday, 3 October 2011
CHESHIRE B2B AGENCY THE SCOTT PARTNERSHIP ANNOUNCES SECOND ACQUISITION IN TWO MONTHS IN CONTINUED GROWTH STRATEGY
03 October 2011: Cheshire based B2B agency The Scott Partnership Ltd (www.scottpr.com) announces the acquisition of Cambridge-based scientific marketing agency Phoenix Marcom Ltd (www.phoenixmarcom.co.uk). The acquisition sees Phoenix move into the holding company of The Scott Partnership Ltd to operate as a wholly owned stand-alone business. The addition of Phoenix Marcom marks the second acquisition since July 2011 for Scott Partnership Holdings Ltd, as it continues to expand its offering in scientific markets with three strong autonomous brands.
CEO Kath Darlington explains "Phoenix Marcom is a strong, established business, with a solid record of scientific, full-service marketing in Europe. The company provides its clients with a broad portfolio of marketing services, and has an impressive customer base. Our intention is that Phoenix will remain autonomous, servicing its predominantly European clients, retaining its focus in the Cambridge area, via the existing Phoenix team. The founder of Phoenix Marcom, Paul Carter, will join The Scott Partnership to support our expansion in Europe. All five companies in Scott Partnership Holdings will now offer PR and marketing services, specializing in healthcare and life sciences markets worldwide."
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