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MedMedia Group in 2010 celebrates its 19th year in business. The Group is wholly owned by journalists, John Gibbons and Geraldine Meagan. Its first venture was the launch in 1991 of a monthly journal of General Practice, Forum, in association with the Irish College of General Practitioners. Forum is now firmly established as the number one journal of general practice and GP education in Ireland.
MedMedia's next major initiative was the launch, in 1995, of the World of Irish Nursing, official journal of the Irish Nurses & Midwives Organisation, a full-colour A4 publication. Over the years, the circulation of World of Irish Nursing has grown in tandem with the growing membership of the INMO and today stands at over 40,000, making it Ireland's biggest circulation healthcare periodical.
We also publish Diabetes Ireland, journal of the Diabetes Federation of Ireland. In 2005, we took over publication of Asthma News on behalf of the Asthma Society of Ireland. We also launched Nursing in the Community to cater for the rapidly growing role of practice and community-based nursing.
In recent years, we have extended our publishing reach, with the launch of three new specialist quarterly titles, Cancer Professional, Cardiology Professional and Diabetes Professional.
We have published the respected quarterly peer-review journal of psychiatry, the Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine since 1995.
May 2010 saw a dramatic move by MedMedia Group to buy out the entire medical publications portfolio of principal rival, M+C Group. These eight titles, the longest established of which is now 40 years in print, bring our total stable of titles to 20. This move has also meant a significant expansion of the business and recruitment of former M+C editorial and sales staff along with the new titles.
1995 also saw the launch of MedMedia Campaign , our creative agency. MedMedia Campaign has grown strongly over the years, and is now the pre-eminent creative agency for healthcare in Ireland. Its commitment to creative excellence has been acknowledged in its receipt of 18 national and international design and creative awards over the last 10 years.
We currently represent three of the top four largest selling pharmaceutical products in Ireland, and have the biggest and most diverse portfolio of pharma products of any Irish agency and the largest and most experienced in-house team of graphic designers, creatives and account managers.
As well as adding more titles to its publishing portfolio, the next big departure for the MedMedia Group took place in August, 2000, with the launch of its consumer health website, irishhealth.com . The site has been a huge hit with the Irish public. As of June 2010, over 141,000 people were registered members of the site.
The site now attracts around 450,000 page views a month. Irishhhealth.com is one of Google and Yahoo's most highly rated health resources for Ireland. In 2007, irishhealth.com was rated as the world's 9th most popular ‘health news and media' website, alongside sites such as the New England Journal of Medicine, BBC and CNN Health (Source: Alexa.com).
In September 2006, we launched ‘RateMyHospital.ie', Ireland's first hospital ratings website. As of June 2010, almost 20,000 people have ranked their experience in hospital. In November 2007, ‘Rate My Hospital' received a World Summit Award in a ceremony in Venice organised by the United Nations. This is the first time an Irish healthcare project had been so honoured.
In late 2007, MedMedia Group supported the launch of the pro bono website, Climatechange.ie to raise awareness of the growing climate crisis and what it means to all of us. The Group also undertook to review its own practices with a view to significantly reducing its corporate ‘carbon footprint'.
MedMedia Group believes that the best model for sustainable success is to strive to be a business that treats employees, clients, suppliers and the public with respect and professionalism and uses its resources in a manner that is least harmful to the wider environment.
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