The Big Pitch 2025

| 35 Dr Frances Duffy Founder and CEO of 6D-Dementia Ltd. Dr Frances Duffy, a Consultant Clinical Psychologist, has over 15 years of experience in dementia care. As an NHS Clinical Entrepreneur, she founded 6D-Dementia Ltd., with support from Techstart and Innovate UK. 6D is transforming dementia care with the innovative online training platform designed for caregivers, care homes, domiciliary care providers, local authorities, the voluntary sector, and NHS organisations. 6D delivers evidence-based, role-specific training that empowers caregivers and healthcare professionals to provide high-quality, person-centred dementia care. Interest in 6D is growing rapidly, with NHS trusts and other organisations recognising its ability to address urgent workforce needs, reduce caregiver stress and burnout, staff turnover and staff absence. Quality training delivers measurable cost savings by reducing breakdown in living arrangements, decreasing unnecessary hospital admissions and reducing the need for psychotropic medications with significant side effects. It also enables people with dementia to live independently for longer and improves quality of life. LinkedIn: /in/frances-duffy-6d @duffy_frances www.6ddementia.com Dr Laura Tan CEO Avid Health Dr Laura Tan is a Medical Doctor (MBBS BSc) and Co-Founder of Avid, where she combines her clinical, technical and academic expertise to build and scale impactful care solutions to shift healthcare to be more proactive. Graduating from Imperial College London, she worked across a variety of specialties, also securing an Academic Clinical Program at NHS Wales with research interests across data science and AI. She then co-founded Avid - a VC backed digital health start up for proactive health action. Avid is a new front door to care that activates action and transforms outcomes at scale. Through a CQC regulated clinical service and AI augmented digital platform, Avid provides wrap-around clinical programs that capture and engage target cohorts, whilst driving adherence and outcomes that matter through clinical consults, health coaching and data insights. Our proven product (NPS 87, retention 91%) and demonstrated outcomes (e.g. -7.2% body weight, 12w) is being initially scaled through Pharma partnerships where we optimise for adherence, experience and outcomes. Please get in touch if you would like to learn more: [email protected] LinkedIn: /company/avid-health/

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