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Lightning Insights combines a global stakeholder community with flexible research methodologies that generate actionable insight
Stakeholder expertise tailored to your research needs
Supported by a dedicated stakeholder engagement team, our network spans more than 65 markets across a broad range of therapy areas and healthcare technologies.
Through on-demand insights, expert consultations and advisory boards, we help organisations understand stakeholder perspectives while creating opportunities for healthcare decision-makers to contribute to meaningful research.
On-demand insights
Our expert consultants design and deploy bespoke online surveys to deliver on-demand, high-level insights from global payers and clinicians in as little as 10 working days, providing accelerated insights to optimise go-to-market strategies and patient access
Tailored survey creation
Custom surveys built by experts designed to rapidly meet research objectives
Stakeholder selection
Select stakeholder archetypes with flexible sample sizes, targeting the most relevant participants
Quality & Compliance
Support across the review and approval process to ensure research goals are met
Analysis and follow up
Our team analyses and interprets responses with optional qualitative follow up
Key insights report
Collated findings synthesised for decision-making
Expert consultations
For projects that require nuanced, individual perspectives to inform strategic decision-making, we conduct expert consultations led by our dedicated team. This methodology enables direct engagement with stakeholders to uncover context specific insights, challenge assumptions, and shape evidence-based value and access strategies
Preparation & stakeholder selection
Define objectives & stakeholder profiles in collaboration with client, co-develop background materials, discussion guides & stimulus materials
Quality & QC
Review for accuracy, quality, and compliance to ensure questions elicit actionable insights
Engagement
Conduct in-depth, one-on-one interviews led by experienced value and access consultants guide conversations to identify nuanced perspectives and strategic considerations
Analysis & output
Translate insights into detailed, actionable recommendations to support value and access strategies
Advisory boards
For complex market access challenges that demand structured, multi-stakeholder engagement, we design tailored advisory boards as a rigorous research methodology to generate strategic insight and facilitate alignment across stakeholders. Delivered in person or virtually, this approach enables exploration of priority issues and informs decision-making through diverse expert contributions.
Define priorities & QC
Define priorities, review insights, conduct gap analysis, and submit materials for client QC to surface key questions and country nuances
Select & prepare advisors
Select and prepare stakeholders, develop strategic stimulus, and engage advisors through targeted briefings and pre-meeting surveys
Facilitate expert dialogue
Moderate discussions with payers, KOLs and health economic advisors to build consensus
Drive engagement
Apply interactive techniques such as polling, preference exercises, and virtual whiteboards to drive alignment among participants
Capture and translate insights
Use structured materials to support consensus and generate actionable, market-informed outputs
Global stakeholder community
Our community includes payers, physicians and health economic advisors, with perspectives spanning national HTA agencies and ministries of health through to regional and local decision-makers. This includes a diverse payer network covering reimbursement, procurement and pathway stakeholders across public and private healthcare systems.
The map highlights the markets where we maintain active network presence and ongoing stakeholder engagement.
Oceania
Our Oceania network spans key institutions across health systems, including former senior members and advisors of health ministries, and national HTA and pricing bodies. It also includes members of state level formulary groups, clinical advisors, and senior hospital pharmacy/formulary stakeholders.
Asia
Our Asian network spans key institutions and decision-making perspectives across national and regional health systems, including former senior members and advisors of regulatory and health security authorities, HTA and pricing bodies, and national policy institutions. It also includes clinical specialists, academic health economists, and policy advisors, as well as chief and senior pharmacists and physicians across primary, secondary, tertiary, and private hospitals.
Europe
Our European network spans key institutions across health systems, including former senior members and advisors of health ministries, and national/regional HTA and pricing bodies. It also includes senior clinical, health economic, and policy advisors, hospital formulary stakeholders, and procurement specialists (including tendering).
South America
Our Latin American network spans national and regional health systems, including former members and senior advisors of health ministries, regulatory authorities, HTA and pricing bodies, and commercial insurance organisations. It also includes policy stakeholders, clinical advisors, and senior hospital pharmacy/formulary stakeholders across public and private hospitals.
North America
Our US network spans key institutions including senior members of national and regional commercial insurers, pharmacy benefit managers, integrated delivery networks, clinical pathway organisations, and hospital P&T committees. It also includes former members of CMS and the Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER)
What our stakeholders say
Feedback from stakeholders who contribute to value, access and pricing research through Lightning Insights
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Understanding Lightning Insights
Explore some of the questions organisations commonly face when navigating evidence generation, value demonstration, pricing and patient access.
Stakeholders contribute to projects across value, access and pricing, providing insight on topics such as evidence generation, reimbursement, launch planning, JCA and healthcare policy. Activities range from short surveys and expert interviews to advisory boards exploring complex healthcare challenges.
Through our research projects, stakeholders have the opportunity to contribute their expertise to meaningful healthcare discussions while helping organisations address important value, access and pricing challenges. Projects are professionally managed and designed to generate practical, actionable insights.
Stakeholder perspectives help organisations understand evidence requirements, value drivers, pricing considerations and potential barriers to patient access. These insights inform the strategies and recommendations developed by Lightning Health.
Stakeholder insight provides a deeper understanding of what matters to healthcare decision-makers. Combined with evidence, analytics and market access expertise, it helps organisations make more informed value, access and pricing decisions.
Our community includes payers, physicians, health economists and healthcare decision-makers across a broad range of therapy areas and healthcare systems. Members bring national, regional and local perspectives spanning reimbursement, procurement, market access, healthcare policy and service planning.