title: Friends and relations.
abstract: Good political relationships can bring tangible rewards, as well as helping to protect your reputation. There will be shared goals and joint working will deliver more health improvements to more groups of people. Build communication with the media and politicians--and meet key people regularly to maintain it.
authors.forename: Colleen
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Shannon
mesh_terms: D003142:Communication; D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D006740:Hospital Administrators; D006779:Hospitals, Public; D006801:Humans; D011057:Politics; D011641:Public Relations; D013222:State Medicine; D006113:United Kingdom