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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