The Big Pitch ...what a night

“No means yes somewhere else”…Dr. Benyamin Deldar of Deep Medical was the quote of the night in response to Prof Claire Fuller ’s question, how can NHS England improve things for Clinical Entrepreneurs?? He suggested that there's scope for less politeness, more no’s, and thus more pace to find the right opportunities

18 budding entrepreneurs pitched on stage at the Royal Scottish Geographical Society ’s lecture theatre, one shared in the past with famous explorers including Darwin, Livingstone, Stanley, Scott, Shackleton, Hunt, and Hillary.?? From the days of geographical science to today’s Health and Technology Science all those in attendance working for better patient experience and outcomes. 700 passionate attendees filled the theatre to the brim anxious to hear the night's pitches!

Dr Sameer Nakedar and Stacey Hatton, RN MSc Health IT CDH-L hosted the night superbly, and Sir. Stephen Powis, National Medical Director of NHS England’s keynote told the story of ‘The Library of Babel’ and "to imagine the imaginable" tying in the heritage of Darwin’s achievements.

The pitches were given by

·???????? Dr. Mark Thomas , a cardiologist leveraging AI with Medicate, to give super-specialist cardiovascular prescribing skills to any prescriber

·???????? Yasmin Karsan Peachy Healthcare spoke on helping those who genetically have issues metabolising medications

·???????? Saif Ahmad 52North - creators of Neutrocheck? and their neutropenic sepsis identification

·???????? Dr Fin Williams founder of MindPsy showed her passion for improving psychological support for young people.

·???????? Rupy Aujla shared how doctors typically only receive 4/5hrs nutritional training and their The Doctor's Kitchen app to help all

·???????? Caroline McCallum is founder of Verbo, a speech and language therapy platform

·???????? Rosie Scott of Definition Health has a focus on PreOperative assessment and end to end surgical pathway

·???????? Malone Mukwende had many fans in the audience as co-author of Mind the Gap and founder of Black and Brown Skin.? Improving healthcare for those with brown and black skin.

·???????? Saahil Mehta is founder of Plexāā | Creators of BLOOM?3 a device to precondition skin before surgery to prevent wound complications such as those facing breast cancer surgery

·???????? Dr. Alastair Darwood made a strong impression with his @Inspired Ventilation

·???????? Lucrezia Cester, PhD has developed LightHearted AI an AI-assisted stethoscope that can diagnose heart disease in 10 seconds.

·???????? Olivia Crossing as a Nurse has co-founded 'RateMyShift' to help the workforce

·??????? Ali Haddad shared an amazing view of his Mixed Reality neurosurgical tools

·???????? Dr Rawa Lina Jawad-Quinn ’s MEDICUBE LIMITED is focused on helping dental patient management

·???????? Suzanne Vernazza spoke on Know Your Floors, which focuses on pelvic health and related taboo subjects

·???????? Seamus Coyle struck a personal note for me and I reckon a lot of the audience given the gasp of attention.? As a Pallative Medicine consultant he has pioneered a unique test for oncoming death.?

·???????? Kyle Stewart is doing fascinating work on using Watercress for skin issues including nappy rash, with his Watercress Research

·???????? Dr. Hamzah Selim of 英国伦敦大学学院 and 英国帝国理工学院 co-founded Mindstep for helping early intervention of brain and mental health.

The pitch sessions were interspersed with panels:

Patient & Public Entrepreneurs - Dame Ruth May, Verena Stocker , Liz Choonara and Vanessa Funmi Ullam .

The Innovator’s Dilemma ?- Matthew Hopkins CEO Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust , Prof Claire Fuller Medical Director for Primary Care at NHSE.? Dr Benyamin Deldar Deep Medical, per my opener, caught the audiences attention and Dr. Krishan Ramdoo TympaHealth Technologies Ltd shared the challenges of getting evidence and then getting the scale and adoption and Dr. Ivan Beckley, MD of Suvera spoke on how the model of care of old doesn’t fit the modern model of care.

“333 retained or returned to NHSE due to the CEP program” came from the panel ‘Research, Education and the Workforce’. ?Dr Tamsin H. olland Brown Co-Clinical Lead on CEP and Hear Glue Ear chaired with Prof Ha Hoang on ‘finding the tribe’ and incorporating entrepreneurship into the NHS.? The conversation covered the many barriers and predictable outcomes.? The restrictions with the NHSE and ‘status quo’ barriers.? Prof. Hoang continued to share her personal research which came from?analysing the first two years of the CEP and Ashley McKimm of BMJ emboldened all that failures need to be published, so others don’t repeat the same mistakes. A great discussion that included Prof Roderick Watkins of Anglia Ruskin University and Dr. Navina Evans Chief Workforce , Training & Education Officer at NHS England

“…from Sperm to Worm…” was the life process quote that stuck, as the event was wrapped up by Vin Diwakar , who had been held up by the days' announcement by the UK Chancellor ST￡3.4bn extra investment for NHS digitisation . ?Vin talked of the potential for AI and working with large data sets, unstructured data. Something InterSystems has spent its 46 years focused on as a foundation for our Health Partners.?? The focus on the patient that came through from the event certainly resonates with my #HeartOfHealth views.

Prof Tony Young was last on stage and shared some nuggets of the CEPs success ....plain Speaking feedback, the value of the network and he grabbed Colin Melville on stage to share mutual experiences.

The end of the evening was some great networking time and good to bump into a number of InterSystems UKI partners with Jon Payne and Chris Whittle

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