Field notes

Writing from the margin of other people’s maps

These notes are about geography, call files, and the ABPI Code as it touches a named account. They are not essays about productivity.

Clinician walking in a hospital setting

11 May 2026

Trust names change faster than the sticker on the car park barrier

Hospital lists in call files still carry pre-merger letterheads. Here is how we match them to the current register before we colour a plate.

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Medical professional reviewing information on a clipboard

3 March 2026

Leave-pieces in the bag are a geography problem

Clause language about promotional materials only bites when you know which accounts the representative will actually stand in.

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Scientific samples in a laboratory rack

19 January 2026

Call frequency is not the same as coverage

A bar that shows twelve calls a month can hide three accounts seen weekly and a dozen never seen. The plate has to say so.

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Healthcare worker with a stethoscope

17 November 2025

A transfers-of-value extract the Code owner will initial

Disclosure lines must name the same organisations as the territory plate. When they do not, finance and the field are telling different stories.

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Mountain and valley landscape standing in for difficult rural mileage

1 September 2025

Hampshire rural postcodes and the fantasy of even polygons

Brown Candover sits in a landscape that teaches this lesson daily: a tidy shape on paper can be an unkind week in the car.

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