24 | Brad Groves Director NICE Advice; National Institute for Health and Care Excellence Brad is Director, NICE Scientific Advice working with companies and technology developers to develop good evidence for evaluation and to identify routes to patient access in the NHS. Prior to this he led the development of NICE’s managed access function which enables earlier patient access to medicines, while further real-world evidence generation addresses evidential uncertainty that might otherwise delay a commissioning decision. Working closely with NHS England, the Accelerated Access Collaborative and NHS data custodians, Brad led the development of a data collection approach to support the delivery of data for the Cancer Drugs Fund and the Innovative Medicines Fund. He is also leading developments around the use of real-world evidence to support earlier adoption and spread of promising medical technologies. Prior to joining NICE, Brad worked for NHS England and understands commissioning approaches; and at Cancer Research UK where he led an international research partnership, giving insight in patient perspectives to innovation and use of realworld data to support decision-making. Dr Tamsin Holland Brown BEM Paediatrician, Founder of Hear Glue Ear and Co-Clinical Lead for the NHS Clinical Entrepreneur Programme Tamsin works as a Paediatrician in Cambridge and specialises in children that are deaf. This led to 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] X: @hearglueear
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