Case Studies:

The Migraine Trust

Health

2021 to present

We have worked with The Migraine Trust to build a base of parliamentary supporters for better migraine care, including identifying many members of all four parliaments in the UK who were either personally impacted by migraine or had loved ones or close colleagues who were.

IMPACT

We developed a series of four practical ‘parliamentarians toolkits’, providing them and their staff with information on how to support constituents and colleagues impacted by migraine. We launched these toolkits at events that brought parliamentarians together with patient advocates.

Through two Freedom of Information campaigns we have researched the landscape of migraine care in the NHS in all four nations, finding inconsistencies in access to NICE-approved treatments and monitoring changes overtime.

Working with clinical experts, we crafted policy recommendations for how to improve migraine care and access to treatment in the first of several reports we developed with The Migraine Trust:

Dismissed for too long: Recommendations to improve migraine care in the UK.

Building on this, Dismissed for too long: The impact of migraine on children & young people looked at how the 1 in 10 children and young people living with migraine are impacted at school and their day-to-day lives.
In 2023 a further report, ‘Heading in the wrong direction: Challenges in migraine care and why people with migraine deserve better’, explored how people with migraine are struggling to access appropriate diagnoses and treatments.

“Principle Consulting have made a real impact with our work to see improvements in migraine care.”
Rob Music, chief executive of The Migraine Trust

The Migraine Trust is dedicated to helping people affected by migraine. We are the only UK migraine charity providing information and support, campaigning for awareness and change, and funding and promoting research.

Children at the Table: Developing an integrated influencing campaign for the Children’s Charities Coalition

Childrens' rights
Education
Poverty

The Hepatitis C Trust

Health

nurtureuk

Childrens' rights
Education

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James Radford, Director of Strategy & Communications, St John Ambulance, July 2021

Principle have quickly become an essential part of our team once more, improving our engagement with MPs and other stakeholders, and raising our profile amongst policy makers. We find their perspectives and insight from across the charity sector a fantastic resource, whilst their ability to adapt to our organisation’s ways of working, their can-do attitude, and clear dedication to our cause are all greatly appreciated.
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CO-CHAIR, RARE AUTOIMMUNE RHEUMATIC DISEASE ALLIANCE (RAIRDA)

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Children's Charities Coalition

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Joint Head of Operations, Patient Information Forum

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We Belong

Principle Consulting made sure that our voice was heard when it mattered most. As an organisation whose people and services felt the worst ravages of the pandemic, we needed a consultancy we could trust to help us lobby behind the scenes and raise our voices in public – and Principle have done just that.
Emily Bird, Head of Communications, MHA

Principle Consulting have made a real impact with our work to see improvements in migraine care
Rob Music, chief executive of The Migraine Trust

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