BIG PITCH WEDNESDAY 22 FEBRUARY 2023, 5.00PM The Royal Institution of Great Britain, 21 Albemarle Street, London W1S 4BS
Contents Agenda 4 Foreword 6 Innovation in a Time of Challenge 8 NHS Clinical Entrepreneur Programme Expansion 10 Speakers 13 Our Impact 20 Clinical Entrepreneurs: Pitchers & Panellists 23 Clinical Entrepreneurs 33
THE BIG PITCH 4 | Agenda 17:00 Arrivals, Registrations and Refreshments 18:00 Welcome and Introduction to the Clinical Entrepreneur Programme Big Pitch Event From Clinical Entrepreneur Hosts Gemma Poole and Pasha Normahani 18:07 What is the Clinical Entrepreneur Programme? Video Compilation of Clinical Entrepreneurs 18:10 Keynote Professor Sir Stephen Powis, National Medical Director of NHS England 18:25 Clinical Entrepreneur Pitches Clinical Entrepreneurs: George Ampat, Deb Gompertz, Raj Kohli, Sinead Welsh 18:35 Panel Session – Our Clinical Entrepreneurs, Chaired by Dr Tamsin Holland Brown With Clinical Entrepreneurs: Maame Esi Dekyewa Yankah, Brad Gudger, Malone Mukwende and Waheed Arian 18:50 Clinical Entrepreneur Pitches Clinical Entrepreneurs: Antoinette Honegan, Shuler Xu, Lucrezia Cester, Emilios Lemoniatis 19:00 Fireside Chat, Hosted by Gemma Poole and Pasha Normahani Professor ColinMelville, Medical Director and Director of Education and Standards at the General Medical Council. MattWhitty, Director of Innovation, Research and Life Sciences at NHS England and Chief Executive of the Accelerated Access Collaborate (AAC) at NHS England. Jacqui Rock, Chief Commercial Officer, NHSE. Professor Sarah Clarke, President of the Royal College of Physicians.
| 5 19:15 Clinical Entrepreneur Pitches Clinical Entrepreneurs: Min Lee, Roberto Vilar, Roselyn Bunhu, Chetan Kaher. 19:25 Stakeholder Panel Session, Hosted by Gemma Poole and Pasha Normahani Professor Dame Sue Hill DBE, Chief Scientific Officer for England, and the NHS Genomics Programme Senior Responsible Officer. Dame RuthMay DBE, Chief Nursing Officer for England. Professor Jacqueline Dunkley Bent OBE, Chief Midwifery Officer and Professor of Midwifery at King’s College London and London South Bank University. DavidWebb, Chief Pharmaceutical Officer for England. JasonWong MBE, Deputy Chief Dental Officer for England. 19:40 Clinical Entrepreneur Pitches Clinical Entrepreneurs: Sabrina Ahmed, Frances Duffy, Dean Harris, Bhathiya Wijeyekoon 19:50 Concluding Remarks Dr TimFerris, National Director of Transformation at NHS England. 20:00 Thank You Professor Tony YoungOBE, National Clinical Lead for Innovation NHS England, Director of Innovation and Entrepreneurship Anglia Ruskin University, Consultant Urological Surgeon and Associate Medical Director Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust. 20:05 Final Thank You Gemma Poole and Pasha Normahani 20:10 Networking and Refreshments This programme, without doubt has focused my attention on how I use innovation to meet the needs of medicine. This in turn will allow us to make a product that will meet these needs front on.
THE BIG PITCH 6 | Foreword Welcome to our NHS Clinical Entrepreneur Programme Big Pitch event. The aim of this evening is to acknowledge and celebrate some of the excellent accomplishments that our Clinical Entrepreneurs have achieved this year and to welcome the new year seven cohort of nearly 200 Clinical Entrepreneurs. We are all aware of the challenges that lie ahead for the NHS as demand continues to rise and as we continue to recover from the pandemic. However, challenging times can often bring opportunities for change through necessity. We have seen in recent times the positive impact innovation can have when we come together to address the most difficult of problems. To see so many of our workforce continue to step forward with novel ideas and solutions to improve our patients’ experience of the NHS is truly inspiring. The programme has now recruited over 1000 Clinical Entrepreneurs. Each bring their own unique insight, experience, and expertise to any problem they see. This programme embraces those different approaches and supports our Clinical Entrepreneurs to succeed in their ambitions to deliver continual improvements in the services we provide. Professor Sir Stephen Powis National Medical Director, NHS England Congratulations to all the Clinical Entrepreneurs that have completed this year’s programme. The NHS is globally renowned for the excellence, passion and dedication of its workforce and for its long history of ingenuity and creativity. With the NHS celebrating its 75th year, it is wonderful to see so many of our frontline staff continuing in this tradition, seeking to drive positive change in the way we deliver care with the support of the programme. My welcome also to the new cohort of clinical entrepreneurs starting this year , I look forward to seeing how together we can continue to improve and transform patient care and services. Amanda Pritchard Chief Executive Officer, NHS England This is a fantastic programme that continues to be a key driver to retaining talented and influential clinicians within the NHS.
| 7 It is wonderful to be back celebrating another year of the Clinical Entrepreneur Programme. I have had the pleasure of being involved with the programme for many years now and it is truly fantastic to see so many innovations develop from an initial idea to making a real impact in the NHS. We are now regularly seeing products and services developed on the programme progress through the innovation pipeline to market launch and adoption in the NHS. Clinical Entrepreneur innovations are now a consistent presence in applications to our later-stage innovation programmes, such as the AI Award, Small Business Research Initiative (SBRI) and the NHS Innovation Accelerator (NIA), and are also attaining places on national frameworks. The NHS Clinical Entrepreneur Programme, the biggest entrepreneurial workforce development programme of its kind, supports the NHS workforce to develop, evaluate and drive innovation on the frontline. Through this programme, our NHS workforce can play a vital role in making the NHS the most innovative healthcare system in the world. Congratulations to all those that have participated in the programme this year and I’m excited to see what next year brings for the new cohort and those that continue to be part of the programme. Matt Whitty Director of Innovation, Research and Life Sciences at NHS England and Chief Executive of the Accelerated Access Collaborate (AAC) at NHS England I am delighted to welcome the new cohort of Clinical Entrepreneurs and congratulate those that have completed their year on the programme. Transforming the NHS is more crucial than ever for us to deliver on our ambition to provide the best possible care to patients. Having a workforce that has excellent digital, technical, and commercial skills is vital to this transformation. Not only do we need to bring the best innovations from across the globe into the NHS, but we also need to identify the most promising innovations coming from inside the NHS itself. You all, our Clinical Entrepreneurs past and present, have an important role to play in this journey. I am looking forward to seeing the positive impact that your innovations, developed on the programme, will bring to our patients and staff. Dr Tim Ferris National Director of Transformation at NHS England An amazing programme for anyone who sees entrepreneurial opportunities in healthcare to enhance patient care.
THE BIG PITCH 8 | Innovation in a Time of Challenge The last year has posed a series of challenges to our health service that provide us with a unique opportunity to utilise innovation as a catalyst to deliver radical, positive changes to patient care. Looking forward, perhaps the greatest issues we face relate to the workforce, reboot and recovery, health inequalities, net zero, implementing the NHS Long Term Plan and cost efficiencies. How can we address all these through innovation? This evening you will hear and see many ideas and innovations, however the successful ones all share some common features: Novelty: Whilst an innovation may be a new technological invention within a field, it may also be an existing piece of technology or process which has a novel application or is new to a particular environment. Value: The added value to the innovation’s particular area of interest should be defined both clinically and financially. Scalability: The innovation must have the potential to be adopted across multiple sites in our healthcare system (and even globally). Empowerment: The innovation must provide additional opportunities or information that previously were not available to either patients and their caregivers or the clinical team. In short it must empower them. By keeping these four features at the forefront of our thinking, we can truly transform patient care through innovation. The NHS workforce have always been at the forefront of innovation. As the NHS looks to celebrate its 75th year we need our workforce to step forward again and help address the grand challenges the health service now faces to help launch it into its next 75 years. Professor Tony Young OBE National Clinical Lead for Innovation NHS England, Director of Innovation and Entrepreneurship Anglia Ruskin University, Consultant Urological Surgeon and Associate Medical Director Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust Dr Tamsin Holland Brown Paediatrician, Founder Of Hear Glue Ear and Co-Clinical Lead for the NHS England Clinical Entrepreneur Programme
| 9 Health Education England Health Education England (HEE) is the national body responsible for the education and training of the healthcare workforce in England. On the 1st April 2023 we will merge into the new NHS England. Although our name is changing our responsibilities will remain. Our aim is to support the delivery of excellent healthcare and health improvement to the patients and public of England by ensuring that there are right numbers of the workforce for today and the future with the skills, values and behaviours, at the right time and in the right place. Advances in medicine, technology and digitisation are having a significant impact on the expectations and roles of those working in the system. We all expect our health workforce, especially clinicians to deliver high quality safe care which is underpinned by digital technologies. We also expect our professionals to drive innovations in all aspects of their practice and the health service. We are supporting our workforce by creating an education and training system that is evidence based and underpinned by digital and innovation. We also need to help build the capacity and capability of our current and future workforce to embrace and actively engage with research, digital and innovation. That is why we are so supportive of the NHS England Clinical Entrepreneur programme. This programme has now helped over 1000 frontline NHS staff to develop commercial skills, knowledge and experience to help transform patient care through innovation. By working with commercial mentors and gaining industry experience they are also increasing their digital and technology readiness. There are many new and growing opportunities to utilise digital technologies in the delivery of education for our future workforce and we look forward to working with our Clinical entrepreneurs and seeing the cutting-edge products from the programme that continue to push the boundaries of innovation and challenge us to explore the possible. As a working mother the CEP is relatively flexible and still allows me to pursue my career aspirations and innovations alongside holding down my role as a mother to young children. That is incredibly valuable.
THE BIG PITCH 10 | NHS Clinical Entrepreneur Programme Expansion Northern Ireland “Following a pilot of the Clinical Entrepreneur Programme in 2021/22, Invest Northern Ireland committed to funding the CEP for a further three years. The programme is supported locally by HIRANI, delivered by Anglia Ruskin University and is part of the NHS Accelerated Access Collaborative. The CEP allows HSC staff, students studying healthcare degrees and postgraduate students in health related disciplines to develop on an innovative idea over a 12 month period which will benefit the wider patient and staff community throughout the HSC NI and NHS. In October 2022 Invest NI, in partnership with HIRANI, hosted the first NHS CEP Pitstop to Northern Ireland. The Pitstop, which was led by Professor Tony Young, was a two-day event which included engagement with local companies and stakeholders. Over 50 Clinical Entrepreneurs joined us for a range of talks, workshops and networking with innovators from the Northern Ireland life and health sciences ecosystem. Through the CEP, local entrepreneurs accelerated their innovative ideas, resulting in collaborative connections to scale health innovation, securing further investment in Northern Ireland. As we look to the coming year and reflect on established momentum the CEP cohort will return to Northern Ireland in June 2023.” www.hira-ni.com/news/the-nhs-clinical-entrepreneurprogramme @HIRANIhealth @InvestNI
| 11 Venture Studios from Crisis “Our partnership with the Clinical Entrepreneur Programme began in February 2022 with four Venture Studio entrepreneurs (Chantal, Joana, Laura & Maame Esi) pitching their innovation to Professor Tony Young before joining the sixth cohort of the programme and being selected from a pool of over 300 applicants. In doing so they became one the first group of people from outside the NHS to enrol on the programme. With access to 12 months of innovative learning, tools to support the development of ideas and a network of clinical entrepreneurs, the CEP was identified as an ideal opportunity for founders who had established an early-stage business idea.” Liz Choonara Interim Director of Enterprise and Innovation, Crisis www.crisis.org.uk/venturestudio LinkedIn:/company/venture-studio-from-crisis/ Twitter: /VSfromCrisis Scotland “The Digital Health & Innovation Centre (DHI), in partnership with Scottish Enterprise and NHS Scotland, are embarking on a second year with the NHS Clinical Entrepreneur Programme. Targeted at NHS employees from across NHS Scotland, Scottish Enterprise has funded 12 places on this year’s CEP. The DHI is leading the Scottish coordination group for the programme in collaboration with Scottish Enterprise, NHS Education Scotland, Scottish Health and Industry Partnership Group (SHIP), InnoScot Health and Scottish Government. The coordination group will support the Scottish candidates in their innovation journey and help them to identify Scottish support while providing networking and collaboration opportunities into the wider Scottish innovation and entrepreneurial landscape. By bringing together all the key organisations across the Scottish health and care landscape we have been able to coordinate and focus our efforts in supporting clinical entrepreneurs and recognising and investing in talented people who can actively contribute to improving and transforming our health and care services for the better. Partnering with the CEP is one way that we can provide a supportive and enabling environment to assist our entrepreneurs to achieve their full potential.” Professor George Crooks OBE Chief Executive Officer Digital Health & Care Innovation Centre, Scotland
THE BIG PITCH 12 | Republic of Ireland “The three Clinical Entrepreneurs appointed from the Republic of Ireland were winners of the Health Innovation Hub Ireland’s Clinical Innovation Award programme 2022. They received funding from Enterprise Ireland to explore the commercial opportunity of their innovative projects to solve unmet needs in healthcare at a global scale. In addition to this, and to best support the development of Irish Clinical Entrepreneurs, the Irish government through the Department of Health, the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment, Enterprise Ireland, and the Health Service Executive have partnered with the Clinical Entrepreneur Programme. This opportunity afforded to the Irish representatives on the CEP will expedite their product and commercial development through world leading training, access to investors and commercial experts, and to grow an exceptional network of peer entrepreneurs, and business and clinical leaders. It is important that solutions developed by those who know and deal with the problems on a daily basis are given the best opportunity to succeed and deliver novel treatments to those who need them most.” Dr Steven Griffin Clinical Innovation Programme Manager Health Innovation Hub Ireland Dr Tanya Mulcahy National Director Health Innovation Hub Ireland https://hih.ie/ At a time of unprecedented strain within the NHS, meeting up with like-minded individuals who are attempting to tackle the challenges they face in their working lives through innovation and imagination, the programme has been highly restorative.
| 13 Speakers Professor Sir Stephen H Powis National Medical Director of NHS England Professor Sir Stephen Powis is the National Medical Director of NHS England, and the Professor of Renal Medicine at University College London. Previously he was Medical Director (and latterly Group Chief Medical Officer) of the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust from 2006 to 2018. Professor Powis was also a member of the governing body of Merton Clinical Commissioning Group for five years and a Director of Healthcare Services Laboratories LLP. He is a past Chairman of the Association of UK Universities (AUKUH) Medical Directors Group and has been a member of numerous national committees and working groups, including the Department of Health Strategic Education Funding Expert Group. He is a past non-executive director of the North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust, including a period of eight months as acting chairman. Twitter: @NHSEnglandNMD Dr Tim Ferris National Director of Transformation at NHS England Dr Tim Ferris is the inaugural National Director of Transformation at NHS England. The Transformation Directorate draws together NHSX, NHS Improvement, and Innovation into a single team to deliver transformation in the NHS through redesigning care services, harnessing the power of data and analytics, and building a learning health system that generates knowledge to improve population health. Tim was most recently CEO of the Mass General Physicians Organization (2017- 2021) and was formerly the Senior Vice President for Population Health at Mass General Brigham overseeing performance for one of the largest accountable care organizations in the US. He founded the Center for Population Health, which reaches over one million patients annually, focusing on prevention and data to improve health, reduce inequities and save lives. Tim’s past roles include multiple committees at the National Academy of Medicine, and as a Non-Executive Director on the Board of NHS England and NHS Improvement. Tim trained in medicine and public health at Harvard University and remains on the staff of Mass General. Tim became a professor at Harvard Medical School in 2018 and continues as an adjunct professor.
THE BIG PITCH 14 | Matt Whitty Director of Innovation, Research and Life Sciences at NHS England and Chief Executive of the Accelerated Access Collaborate (AAC) Matt Whitty is the Director of Innovation, Research and Life Sciences at NHS England and Chief Executive of the Accelerated Access Collaborate (AAC). He is a trained pharmacist by background and has a wealth of experience in healthcare after spending several years in clinical roles and then as a management consultant providing strategy, commercial and implementation support to the NHS, pharma and biotech. In his current role as Director at NHS England and Chief Executive of the AAC, he is working to improve health research and get the most promising innovations, including medicines, MedTech, diagnostics and digital, to NHS patients faster. Twitter: @mgwhitty Jacqui Rock Chief Commercial Officer, NHS England Jacqui joined NHSE from the UK Health Security Agency where she was Chief Commercial Officer, Head of Corporate Services and Transition Director. As a member of the NHS Test & Trace Executive Team, she was a driving force behind dynamic and rapid innovation and technology development in the supply chain. Jacqui was formerly director for the Defence Infrastructure Organisation at the Ministry of Defence and is a member of the Cabinet Office Commercial Function. She joined the UK government after 30 years in the financial services industry where she held multiple executive positions in companies including Credit Suisse, JP Morgan, Barclays and Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Jacqui leads the vital work of the Commercial directorate, driving the NHS to improve delivery, quality, efficiency and value of our procurement and wider estates management, services and functions, and supporting the spread of innovations across the NHS. Twitter: @jacquirock1
| 15 Professor Tony Young OBE National Clinical Lead for Innovation NHS England, Director of Innovation and Entrepreneurship Anglia Ruskin University, Consultant Urological Surgeon and Associate Medical Director Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust In 2014, Tony became the first National Clinical Lead for Innovation for the NHS, providing clinical leadership in delivering improved health outcomes in England. Driving the uptake of proven innovations across the NHS, he promotes economic growth through innovation, and helps to make the NHS the go-to place on the planet for medical innovation. In 2015, Tony founded the NHS Clinical Entrepreneur Programme. This has become the world’s largest entrepreneurial workforce development programme of its kind. In the 2019 New Year’s Honours list Tony was awarded the OBE for services to clinical leadership. Tony’s portfolio covers the whole landscape of health and social care, public health, technology, digital and life sciences. Twitter: @DrTonyYoung Dr Tamsin Holland Brown Paediatrician, Founder Of Hear Glue Ear and Co-Clinical Lead for the NHS England Clinical Entrepreneur Programme Tamsin works as a paediatrician in Cambridge, and specialises in children that are deaf. This led her focus on children with temporary hearing loss due to glue ear (a common condition experienced by 80% children at least once, where fluid builds up behind the ear drum, causing temporary deafness in young children), she created an affordable medical device to improve hearing and an app to improve childhood developmental skills. This became the only solution for remote patient management of glue ear during the covid pandemic in 2020. The device and the app won innovation and paediatric awards, with NICE ‘highly commending’ the app as a shared learning example and the UK app awards awarding ‘Children’s app of the year’. Her journey led her to become an educator in digital health and clinical entrepreneurship, becoming the Co-Clinical lead for the NHS Clinical Entrepreneur programme in 2021. www.hearglueearapp.com hearglueear.wordpress.com Email: [email protected] Twitter: @hearglueear
THE BIG PITCH 16 | Professor Colin Melville Medical Director and Director of Education and Standards at the General Medical Council Colin has significant experience and expertise as a senior medical educationalist and NHS leader with previous roles encompassing Clinical Director, Medical Director, Director of Medical Education and Foundation School Director. He later held senior academic leadership positions at HYMS, Warwick and Lancaster medical schools before joining the GMC as Medical Director and Director of Education and Standards in 2017. He helped establish the CEP and continues to champion and provide mentorship to it. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Academy of Medical Educators, Honorary Professor of Medical Education at the University of Manchester and visiting Professor at Anglia Ruskin University. Twitter: @drcolinm Professor Dame Sue Hill DBE Chief Scientific Officer for England Professor Dame Sue Hill DBE FMedSci FRSB FRCP(Hon) FRCPath (Hon) FHCS (Hon) is the Chief Scientific Officer (CSO) for England and a respiratory scientist by background. Throughout her career she has led on large scale priority programmes across government and in NHS England including as the senior responsible officer for Genomics in the NHS, introducing a world leading and nationwide Genomic Medicine Service, building on her work in heading up the NHS contribution to the 100,000 Genomes Project. She has also played a pivotal role in the national COVID-19 programme leading the development and deployment of testing technologies into use for the UK population and co-directing the whole genome sequencing of SARS-CoV-2 programme. Twitter: @CSOSue
| 17 Jason Wong MBE Deputy Chief Dental Officer for England Jason Wong MBE is a General Dental practitioner who qualified from University of Birmingham in 1995. He is a partner at the 12 surgery Maltings Dental practice and a clinical ambassador for the Mouth Cancer foundation. Jason currently spends half his working week as Deputy Chief Dental officer for England a position that he was appointed to in July 2020. Jason currently leads on patient safety, Local dental networks and clinical leadership for the office of the chief dental officer Previously, Jason was a Local Dental Network Chair for NHS England in the Midlands covering Leicestershire Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire. He has held a range of positions including chairing the Local Dental Network for Hertfordshire and South Midlands and the West Midlands as well as secretary of Lincolnshire Local Dental committee for 16 years. Jason has clinical interests in the treatment of anxious patients, Oral surgery, Implant Dentistry, prevention and oral health promotion. He was awarded an MBE for services to Dentistry and Oral health in the new year honours list 2020. Twitter: @JasonWong12 Dame Ruth May DBE Chief Nursing Officer for England Ruth became the Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) for England in January 2019. In June 2022, as part of the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Honours, Ruth was awarded a DBE for her services to nursing, midwifery and the NHS since she started her nurse training in 1985. Upon receiving her Damehood, Ruth recognised the expertise of nursing and midwifery colleagues in caring for people at every stage of their lives and the vital role that the professions and care staff played during the pandemic. Ruth has led the nursing, midwifery and care professions’ response to COVID-19 in England and led collaborative work with UK CNO colleagues, the NMC and trade unions to ensure agreement and consistent messaging on key issues. She is passionate about nurturing the next generation of NHS nursing and midwifery leaders and encouraging professional development opportunities. This includes advocating for improved mental health awareness, championing volunteer activity to support the frontline workforce, and she is a vocal supporter of the WRES agenda and increased diversity across the NHS. Twitter: @CNOEngland / #teamCNO
THE BIG PITCH 18 | Professor Jacqueline Dunkley Bent OBE Chief Midwifery Officer for England Professor Jacqueline Dunkley-Bent is the Chief Midwifery Officer for the NHS in England and has vast experience in healthcare provision. She is a registered nurse and midwife and is one of two National Maternity Safety Champions. Jacqueline is visiting Professor of Midwifery at Kings College London and London South Bank University. Jacqueline has held senior positions in clinical practice, education, leadership and management including: Consultant Midwife, Director of Midwifery, Head of Nursing, Senior Lecturer, Curriculum Leader, LME and Professor of Midwifery. She is a member of Tommy’s Charity National Advisory Board as Midwifery advisor, Women of the Year management committee, Midwifery Ambassador for the ‘Saying Goodbye’ charity and trustee for the RCN Foundation. In 2020, she was noted as one of the influential people in health by the HSJ. She was also noted as a Pioneer by the HSJ and selected from over 100 nominations for inclusion on the Nursing Times’ Leaders 2015 list, that celebrates nurses and midwives who are pioneers, entrepreneurs and inspirational role models in their profession. David Webb Chief Pharmaceutical Officer for England David Webb is the Chief Pharmaceutical Officer for England. He is Head of the Pharmacy Professions in England and the principal advisor on pharmacy and medicines use in the NHS, which includes supporting the Department of Health and Social Care. David started this role in February 2022, having previously been Chief Pharmacist and Clinical Director for Pharmacy and Medicines Optimisation at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust in London. He registered as a pharmacist in 1986 and has been the regional chief pharmacist for London, director of regional specialist pharmacy services for London, East and Southeast England, and also led the review of specialist pharmacy services for England in 2014. David has held a number of academic appointments at University College London’s School of Pharmacy, including that of visiting professor, and is a Fellow of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society.
| 19 Professor Sarah Clarke President of the Royal College of Physicians In July 2022 Dr Sarah Clarke was elected the 122nd president of the Royal College of Physicians. She will be only the fourth female president of the RCP. She was previously clinical vice president of the RCP, past president of the British Cardiovascular Society and a Joint National Lead for Cardiology for the NHS’s Getting it Right First Time (GIRFT) programme. She is currently a clinical director for strategic development at Royal Papworth Hospital and continues to act in an advisory capacity for the GIRFT programme on matters relating to cardiology. Dr Clarke brings a wealth of relevant experience as a senior clinician, educator, leader of change and transformation within organisations and of clinical services, and a leader of quality improvement. She has established a wide network of influence nationally and internationally through her work with NHS England, Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT), the National Institute for Cardiovascular Outcomes Research, the British Heart Foundation, the European Society of Cardiology, the American College of Cardiology and the BMJ. In 2018 she was awarded the American College of Cardiology international service award. The programme has enabled me to explore and develop entrepreneurial skills that have delivered efficiency savings for the Trusts in which our product has been piloted. It has been hugely important for me that the NHS recognises the importance of entrepreneurship and partnership, in particular for delivering innovation and change for the better within the service.
THE BIG PITCH 20 | Year six figures are based on 386 respondents 25,078 hours of mentoring were delivered to Clinical Entrepreneurs Year one – 706 Year two – 864 Year three – 1,856 Year four – 7,872 Year five – 8,097 Year six – 5,683 551 innovations are being developed 223partnerships and collaborations 12,804 occurrences of organisations adopting Clinical Entrepreneur innovations 881 Clinical Entrepreneurs Year one – 104 Year two – 138 Year three – 120 Year four – 151 Year five – 193 Year six – 175 132.3m private, professional and patient users of products, processes and services developed by Clinical Entrepreneurs Year one – 5.6m Year two – 8.1m Year three – 3.7m Year four – 17.2m Year five – 57.2m Year six – 40.5m
| 21 43,143 CPD points have been awarded to Clinical Entrepreneurs Year two – 5,026 Year three – 7,238 Year four – 7,723 Year five – 8,948 Year six – 14,208 More than £868.3m of funding raised Year one – £51.7m Year two – £67.1m Year three – £45.3m Year four – £115.3m Year five – £110.6m Year six – £478.3m 283 clinicians returned to the NHS or were retained within the NHS as a result of the Programme Year one – 34 Year two – 47 Year three – 25 Year four – 90 Year five – 52 Year six – 35 423 start–ups have been created Year one – 50 Year two – 63 Year three – 62 Year four – 71 Year five – 81 Year six – 96 412 Clinical Entrepreneurs participated in accelerators and business support programmes Year one – 28 Year two – 47 Year three – 70 Year four – 66 Year five – 66 Year six – 135 2,850 jobs have been created Year one – 344 Year two – 357 Year three – 346 Year four – 324 Year five – 862 Year six – 617
THE BIG PITCH 22 | Hosts Gemma Poole Midwife and Co-Founder of The Essential Baby Company Gemma Poole is a registered midwife and award-winning college lecturer. Gemma has turned her frustration with inadequate and exclusionary maternity care into a mission to reduce race-based health inequalities. Through inclusive tools and resources which advocate for safe pregnancies and healthy babies for Black and brown skin women and birthing parents and co-producing equity-driven training for healthcare professionals. Building on the success of her unique way to engage marginalised communities in contributing to patient and public involvement and evaluation groups, haPPIE Research aims to amplify marginalised voices in research, product design, innovation and health care. Gemma is passionate about collaborating with entrepreneurs, existing services and businesses to improve user experience, avoid design bias, expand markets and address social justice issues. Email: [email protected] Website: essentialbabyco.com i:essentialbabyco f:essentialbabyco t:@essentialbabyco Pasha Normahani NIHR Researcher, Vascular Surgery Registrar and Founder of smrtflo Pasha is an NIHR Clinical Lecturer at Imperial College London, Specialist Registrar in Vascular Surgeryat Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, MBA candidate at Imperial College Business School and founder of a digital health start-up, smrtflo. His academic interests are in translational research with a particular focus on diagnostic devices, digital health and artificial intelligence. His work has won multiple national and international awards and is currently supported by funding from the NIHR, UKRI and the Wellcome Trust. His digital health start-up, smrtflo, translates his research into clinical practice. Smrtlo is redefining poor circulation diagnostics with high performance signal processing and artificial intelligence technology. Email: [email protected] Twitter: @PashaNormahani LinkedIn: /in/pashanormahani
| 23 Clinical Entrepreneurs: Pitchers & Panellists George Ampat Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon and Founder of ‘Free From Pain’ Dr George Ampat is a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon and clinical teacher based at Royal Liverpool University Hospitals, specialising in the non-operative management of musculoskeletal conditions. In line with this speciality, Dr Ampat founded ‘Free From Pain’, a functional rehabilitation programme to help older patients with hip, knee, back and neck pain. The programme combines the benefits of Therapeutic Neuroscience Education with exercises, allowing patients to self-manage their musculoskeletal conditions. Dr Ampat wishes to introduce the ‘Free From Pain’ programme to the NHS and is seeking an Integrated Care Board willing to collaborate to begin a trial within the North West of England. www.ampat.co.uk Email: [email protected] Twitter: @geampat LinkedIn: /ampat Deb Gompertz Complex Care GP and Clinical Lead for Complex Care in South Somerset Deb works as a Complex Care GP in South Somerset. She works as part of a multi-professional team in the community, looking after older people who are often living with frailty. The team focuses on what is important for the person and their family and help them to live the best life they can in the place they want to be. As part of a population health fellowship, she used the background of person centred care, collaborative working and changing practices to look at medication adherence in the community. This led into the project “Show me your meds please?” which is a simple screening question during routine home visits by community staff providing the potential for massive reduction in medicines waste, subsequent environmental and cost saving benefit, along with improved individualised patient care. @DebGompertz LinkedIn: DebGompertz Email [email protected]
THE BIG PITCH 24 | Raj Kohli Patient Experience Lead and Co-Founder of Healthtech-1 Raj is Patient Experience Lead at First 4 Health Group, a GP practice in East London. Together with school friend and Co-founder Pete Huang, they founded Healthtech-1, an automation platform for high-frequency, low-complexity tasks in Primary Care. Now live in 35 GP practices, Healthtech-1 have automated over 25,000 New Patient Registrations, liberating staff from 6,250 hours of admin. Awarded an Innovate UK Smart Grant in 2023, Healthtech-1 is set to reach national scale before automating further tasks in Record Transfer, Recall & Test Results. Email: [email protected] Twitter: @healthtech_1 Sinead Welsh International Child Protection Specialist (Australia and Northern Ireland), Mental Health Board Advisor and Founder of Informed Minds App Sinéad is a leader in digital mental health promotion and prevention. Sinead is the creator of the Informed Minds App- a psycho educational Mental Health and Wellbeing App – the catalyst of which was a devastating suicide attempt of a loved one. Informed Minds App uses the power of curated video content via lived personal experiences coupled with professional tools. Funded by the Innovate UK Fast grant, Filament AI- London are leading the implementation of machine learning- an emotionally intelligent chat bot that decides and guides users to the most appropriate videos and mental health and wellbeing supports within Informed Minds App allowing them to manage their own self-care. https://informedmindsapp.com Email: [email protected] LinkedIn /sinead-welsh-informed-minds-appdigital-health-solution-07b061b4 Twitter: @sinead_welsh
| 25 Maame Esi Dekyewa Yankah Food Entrepreneur and Founder of by Maaame “My West African Home Cuisines” Maame Esi is a food entrepreneur with a focus on showcasing West African foods. She is an NHS catering supplier and one of the chefs on www.homecooksfoodhall.co.uk. To her, aside food exhibiting people’s culture, being nourishing and comforting, food is an edible art and can be used in communication. The extent to what you can do with food or a food ingredient is many. Coming from a strong background in Environmental Management she is passionate about the Cradle to Grave process of the food and balances that with food as part of well-being LinkedIn: /bymaaame Twitter: @bymaaame Instagram: @bymaaame Brad Gudger Founder of Alike Brad is the Founder of Alike, a not-for-profit created to combat loneliness and isolation caused by cancer. Alike aims to achieve their mission by utilising digital tools and technology. The charity provides a free iOS and Android peer support platform which enables cancer patients and survivors to connect. Diagnosed with Leukaemia in 2013 at age 19 and then relapsing in 2018, Brad has had extensive patient experience of the NHS for nearly a decade. He has received the Princess Diana Award and been recognised as a Prime Minister’s Point of Light. In July 2021, he presented Alike to the late Her Majesty the Queen via video call. https://alike.org.uk Email: [email protected] Twitter: @BradGudger LinkedIn:Brad Gudger
THE BIG PITCH 26 | Malone Mukwende Medical Student, Author and Founder of BlackandBrownSkin Malone Mukwende is an award-winning founder, student, and recipient of the prestigious Forbes 30U30 Award. Malone is the founder of a Digital Health company called Blackandbrownskin. The mission of the company is simple, create a world where black and brown people do not have their health compromised due to the colour of their skin. One of the products out of the Black and Brown Skin company is the new data-driven platform called Hutano where we are connecting people, data, and research to improve healthcare for black and brown people. Malone is also the co-author of Mind the Gap: A handbook of clinical signs in black and brown skin. Since launch, the book has been read over 500,000 times in more than 70% of the countries globally. Mind the Gap accelerated a dialogue about improving medical education which is continuing today! Email: [email protected] Twitter: /malone_mk LinkedIn: /malone-mukwende-2b9a16168 Waheed Arian Doctor, Founder of Arian Teleheal and Arian Wellbeing Waheed Arian is a former Afghan refugee who is now an NHS A&E doctor, author of the bestselling memoir ‘In the Wars’, founder of the pioneering charity Arian Teleheal and the innovative mental health startup Arian Wellbeing. As an adviser, he helps global organizations and governments with the development of innovations in their healthcare systems to reduce inequalities and provide inclusive high-quality services. Waheed was appointed in 2019 to the WHO Roster of Digital Health Experts. Recognized as a UNESCO Global Hope Hero and a UN Global Goals Goalkeeper, in 2021 he was named Doctor of the Year in the Who Cares Wins Awards and chosen by The Times as Person of the Year. In 2023, he was appointed as The Times health commissioner to review the NHS crisis. www.drwaheedarian.com Email: [email protected] Twitter:/LinkedIn: @drwaheedarian
| 27 Antionette Honegan Nurse and Founder of Muther Tongue Antoinette, the founder of Muther Tongue, is a registered nurse (who also trained as a midwife) with over a decade in healthcare working across the NHS landscape. Her first-hand experience of health inequalities in women’s health, specifically maternity care led to the inception of Muther Tongue, a clinically led, digital healthcare platform focused on universal access to health education. Antoinette was recently awarded a grant from Innovate UK to develop and deliver a multilingual childbirth education pilot. The pilot seeks to connect expectant mothers with multilingual healthcare practitioners using on-demand videos, lowering the barrier of entry to health information and education. Email: [email protected] LinkedIn: /antoinette-honegan-603aa12b/ Shuler Xu Medical Student and Co-founder and CTO of RapidX Bio RapidX Bio is a molecular diagnostic start-up based in the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge. Co-founded by an engineer/doctor and an epidemiologist/physicist, the product being developed is a 5-minute point-of-care device which uses polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and nanotechnology to provide affordable and timely gold standard diagnosis for infectious diseases such as Urinary Tract Infections, Sexually Transmitted Diseases and Respiratory Tract Infections. The goal of RapidX is to reduce cost burdens due to infectious disease complications and enable pathways for patients to receive treatments within 30 minutes of their symptom onset. www.rapidx.bio Email: [email protected]
THE BIG PITCH 28 | Lucrezia Cester AI Clinical Scientist and Co-Founder of LightHearted AI Lucrezia Cester holds a PhD in AI and biomedical technologies and is appointed as an AI Engineer at Guy’s and St Thomas NHS Trust. Lucrezia is also co-founder of Light-Hearted AI, a company dedicated to revolutionising cardiovascular diseases (CVD) screening. The NHS Long Term Plan has identified CVDs as the single biggest condition where lives can be saved, because if detected in time symptoms can be managed to improve quality of life and increase lifespan by starting optimised medication early. However currently only symptomatic patients are referred to a cardiologist, which is the equivalent of waiting for cancer to get to stage 4 before starting treatment. Lucrezia aims to fix this by proposing Light-Hearted AI, a novel, cheap and touch-free CVDs diagnostic and monitoring device. [email protected] Emilios Lemoniatis Consultant Psychiatrist and Founder of FrontlineBuddy “Our mission is to help make Public Sector the best place to work in the world”. Emilios Lemoniatis developed and rolled out FrontlineBuddy across the whole of Mid- South Essex as a clinician led team building and culture change programme for frontline services and staff across all hierarchies. FrontlineBuddy have developed unique streamlined training, which creates a psychologically safe space for staff to learn how to support each other in the moment and promotes regular positive relational habits that align with core values. The data insights FrontlineBuddy gathers demonstrate significant impact with staff well-being, staff retention and valuebased behaviours. www.frontlinebuddy.com Email: [email protected] LinkedIn: /dremilios Twitter: Ems09--
| 29 Min Lee Project Manager and Co-Founder of Humin Min has a background in biomedical sciences, business management and health technologies. After spending a year working at a novel mental health company, she saw an opportunity in behavioural tracking for psychiatry and commenced research around the unmet needs in mental health. Min co-founded Humin, which is developing an app that uses passive, objective smartphone data to give personalised mental and behavioural pattern analysis for people with depression and bipolar disorder. The team believes that mood tracking doesn’t have to feel like homework, but an enjoyable and sustainable experience. Humin’s app also stands out with its focus on ease of long-term use, objectivity and use of advanced AI modelling. Humin’s vision is to empower people with their digital devices to support their mental health. Website: humin.uk Email: [email protected] Instagram: @humin.mh Podcast: The Humin Podcast LinkdIn: /company/huminltd/ Roberto Vilar Advanced Cancer Pharmacist, Founder and CEO of Greener Planet 4us Roberto Vilar is the finance, operations, private patient, and homecare lead for the Cancer Directorate and is also an independent prescriber and a lecturer at the University of West London. Roberto’s strategic role plays a vital part in the financial reporting of chemotherapy and has helped shape the overall strategy of the Cancer Directorate. Roberto is passionate about healthy eating and is committed to improving the eating habits of the general population. Roberto Developed ‘Wondaberry’, a natural chewable tablet which makes sour flavours taste sweet, without the need for sugar or artificial sweeteners. This innovation aims to provide a new approach to dietary restrictions, especially for diabetics, obese and those who need to reduce their sugar intake. www.wondaberry.co.uk Email: [email protected] [email protected] LinkedIn: roberto-vilar-b51bb21a
THE BIG PITCH 30 | Roselyn Bunhu Midwife Roselyn has over 10 years of midwifery experience, working on the labour and postnatal wards within the NHS. She has been on the CEP programme for two years developing her innovation idea. When hearing about the MBRACE statistics of Black women dying in childbirth back in 2019, she became passionate about providing a space specifically designed for Black women during their pregnancy journey. This will be a webapp to give 24-hour access to additional resources, nutrition focused on cultural foods, exercise, parent education, mental wellbeing and creating a community to grow their own support network. Email: [email protected] Chetan Kaher Co-Founder and Chief Innovation Officer at Jiva.ai and Principal Dentist at Smile Cliniq Having gained a doctorate in Dentistry, Chetan has worked in a variety of health sector fields, from primary care as a community dentist to secondary care in Oral and Maxillofacial surgery. Chetan has also worked at the director level within CCGs as part of the Darzi Fellowship in Clinical Leadership, working on various healthcare improvement and transformation schemes. Chetan has a strong interest in oncology, having developed a novel anti-cancer protein therapy that induces natural cell death in malignant cells specifically. He has co-seeded and grown a multi-award winning, successful and reputable chain of dental practices. Chetan now concentrates on democratising AI within healthcare with Jiva.ai’s No-code AI platform, with a variety of use cases in diagnostics (prostate cancer, liver disease) and predictive analytics (waiting list stratification, hospital length of stay). www.jiva.ai Email: [email protected]
| 31 Sabrina Ahmed General Practitioner and Co-Founder of Monitree Monitree is a financial wellbeing app, founded by Stuart Foster and Sabrina Ahmed. Monitree makes the NHS a better and more rewarding place to work. It empowers staff to make smarter financial decisions and save money by collating all money-related information in one place, written clearly, in an easily accessible format. Better financial wellbeing improves the morale and mental health of the workforce and increases productivity, recruitment and retention for the employer. The team are very excited to trial Monitree across Mid and South Essex ICS as part of the MSE Innovation Fellowship Programme. Their vision is for the entire NHS workforce to have access to and benefit from this unique and cost-effective resource. www.monitreeapp.com Email: [email protected] LinkedIn: /monitree-app Facebook: Monitree App Twitter/Instagram/TikTok: @monitreeapp Bhathiya Wijeyekoon Consultant Rheumatologist and Founder MedLogic Ltd Bhathiya is a district general hospital Consultant Rheumatologist, based in Hertfordshire. His background includes a BSc in Infection and Immunity, D.Phil in Molecular Biology and overseas aid work. He is a selftaught ‘coder’ and developed a software solution which prevented lost-to-follow in patients with long-term medical conditions. This solution improved patient care and helped his department to 7th best in the 2019 HQIP National Audit Early Inflammatory Arthritis Audit. Bhathiya founded and professionally developed this technology through MedLogic Ltd. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, MedLogic rapidly developed additional patient-initiated follow-up (PIFU) functionality, intended to support post-COVID service recovery. MedLogic has received grant funding from the Health Technology Regulatory and Innovation Programme and the team are currently seeking funding to carry out a pilot study in Gastroenterology. www.medlogic.co.uk Email: [email protected] Linkedin: /bhathiya-wijeyekoon-46a7372b
THE BIG PITCH 32 | Frances Duffy Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Founder of CLEAR Dementia Care © Frances Duffy is a consultant clinical psychologist working in older people’s mental health including diagnosis of dementia, post diagnostic support and specialist rehabilitation in delirium. She works with colleagues nationally to improve the experience and quality of life of older people and people living with dementia, including the Northern Ireland Regional Dementia Care Pathway. Frances developed CLEAR Dementia Care© to help carers and clinical staff to understand dementia and respond to changes in behaviour. Excellent outcomes include increased clinical effectiveness and efficiency, reduced placement breakdown and hospital admissions with associated financial savings. Training has been commissioned by a number of NHS trusts and other organisations across the UK and beyond who are successfully implementing the model to improve quality of life for people with dementia and their carers. www.northerntrust.hscni.net/CLEAR Email: [email protected] Twitter: @duffy_frances LinkedIn: /frances-duffy-116368146 Dean Harris Consultant Colorectal Surgeon and Co-Founder of CanSense Ltd Dean is clinical director and co-founder of CanSense Ltd who are bringing to market a reagent-free affordable blood test for colorectal cancer and polyp detection. CanSense–CRC is being used to manage the NHS colonoscopy backlog and can help achieve the NHS Long Term Plan’s early detection goal through its 78.6% sensitivity for stage I/II cancer and >98% patient acceptability. CanSense won a £1.2 million i4i NIHR grant and recent £1.5M seed investment which will accelerate CanSense-CRC to its CE Mark. CanSense won the MedTech Start-up of the year award at Wales StartUp Awards 2021 and won the ‘Tech for Good Award’ at Wales Technology Awards 2022. www.cansenseltd.com Email: [email protected] Twitter: @deanharris81 @CanSenseLtd LinkedIn: /dean-harris-cansense-ltd
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