Who we are
About us
Southdown Medical Writing Ltd offers medical writing and associated editorial services to pharmaceutical and scientific clients. We can provide support on anything from small early-phase clinical projects, through summary documents for submission to Health Authorities as part of marketing applications, to a range of documents needed later in a product’s life-cycle.
- As a small company providing a wide range of medical writing services, Southdown was founded in 2012 by three highly experienced medical writers: Patrick Dockrell, Phil Hunt and Karen Welfare. The company is run on an equal partnership model; the three partners co-own the company, and handle all aspects of the business.
- All of the partners have backgrounds in academic scientific research and clinical development within the pharma industry; across the team we also have generics, clinical research organisation and medical communications/marketing agency experience. Together we have well over 50 years of medical writing experience. Our LinkedIn pages provide more information about our professional backgrounds; you can find the Southdown Medical Writing LinkedIn page here.
- As a flexible team we are able to handle larger projects than individual contractors, while as a writer-led partnership we can offer clients direct, easy communication with the hands-on writers on all aspects of a project.
- We are based in Sussex in the UK, close to the beautiful South Downs from which we take our name. We are all home-based, which enables us to keep our costs down.
- We can be easily contacted by email or phone to discuss your requirements, and are happy to provide detailed proposals and budgets for potential projects.
An extensive range of documents
As summarised on our documents and services page we have experience and expertise in preparing a very wide variety of documents supporting clinical development, marketing applications and later stages in product lifecycles.
- One major focus since setting up the company has been supporting drug registration, writing summary documents for numerous marketing applications for submission to to health authorities. Most often, but not exclusively, we have written the CTD Clinical Overview, Summary of Clinical Efficacy, and Summary of Clinical Safety.
- We have also written many clinical study reports, for all development phases from I to IV, for studies of many different types and designs.
- In addition, we have experience of other documents from scientific to administrative, straightforward to complex, guideline-defined to created ad hoc in close collaboration with our clients. The scope of our document experience is summarised further here.
Therapeutic areas and development strategies
- We have worked in a very wide range of therapeutic areas, from what might be considered straightforward indications with well-defined clinical and regulatory frameworks, to more specialised areas of clinical development such as rare diseases and tropical medicine.
- We have extensive experience with biologics in the treatment of a diverse range of disease areas, and have worked on many projects with unconventional or highly specialised development programs.
- A more comprehensive review of our therapeutic area experience is provided here.
With our extensive experience we are confident that we can take on almost any medical writing task. As a team we are able to handle larger projects than individual contractors, but with direct communication with the hands-on writers, rather than clients working through business managers as is typical in a larger CRO. We will be pleased to discuss any medical writing services that you require. A list of services we offer is provided here, but we are happy to discuss any other needs a client may have.