Where the name comes from, and what we are trying to do.
The name
Pagora Health joins two old words. The Latin pagus means a country district: a defined, local place. The Greek agora means the public meeting place: the square where a community gathered to share news and make decisions together.
Put together, Pagora Health is the district's meeting place for evidence. It is where data about a particular catchment, and the clinicians working in it, come together.
The logo
Our logo is a rounded tile, standing for the district, holding an open square: the public square where a community gathered. Inside it, a ring of points around one at the centre: the community, and the news they came to hear. It is simple enough to read at any size, from a business card to a magazine cover.
What Pagora Health does
Pagora Health is an independent publisher. Pulse, our family of print titles, gives every council area its own edition, so a GP reads about their own community rather than a national average. Every figure is sourced from published national data.
How we work
Sourced
Every figure in Pulse traces to a published national dataset.
Plain language
We write for a general practice audience: plain language, no invented shorthand, and nothing that needs decoding.
Editorial independence
Editorial content is produced independently of any sponsor. Any advertising is clearly labelled and kept separate from the data and its sourcing. See Advertise for how that works.
No area shown as better or worse
We never present one area as prescribing more or less than another. Local differences are shown as differences in health burden, not as differences in clinical practice.
Our mission
Connecting catchment data with clinicians.