Ideas to Impact: The Health Innovation East podcast

Ideas to Impact: The Health Innovation East podcast

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Ideas to Impact: The Health Innovation East podcast episodes

  • What does 5G-enabled technology mean for health and care innovation?

    Eastern AHSN Chief Executive Piers Ricketts leads a conversation exploring the potential impact of 5G-enabled technology on healthcare, now and in the future.

    Guests:

    Ann Williams is the Commissioning and Contracts Manager of Adult Social services, Liverpool City Council. Ann has played a lead role in securing the 5G testbed trial for Health and Social Care at Liverpool. As part of the EU’s STOP&GO programme she focused on digitalising domiciliary care services and introducing IoT sensors to homes.

    Tony Sceales is Head of Programme Development (5G Programme) at the UK Department for Culture, Ministry and Sports. The UK has developed a very strong position in technology innovation, and the Government is working to underpin and leverage that position to be among the leading global nations in the adoption of 5G mobile technologies.

    Delivered in partnership with UK5G.

    36 min
  • The business case for diversity in HealthTech with Dr Jason Mellad, CEO and co-founder of Start Codon

    In this episode we spoke to scientist and entrepreneur Dr Jason Mellad about why businesses embracing diversity are setting themselves up for success, his coaching tips for innovators and how we could all be more inclusive.

    Jason is passionate about translating innovative technologies into better patient outcomes. As CEO and co-founder of Start Codon, a Cambridge based accelerator, he aims to identify and recruit the most disruptive healthcare start-ups worldwide, seed fund them and leverage the exceptional resources of the Cambridge cluster to de-risk and drive their success.


    28 min
  • The role of MedTech in the response to COVID-19 with Danny Mortimer, Chief Executive of NHS Employers

    In the first episode of Ideas to Impact, we speak to Danny Mortimer about how MedTech and innovation helped the NHS respond to the coronavirus pandemic and some of the cultural changes which enabled the healthcare system to adapt at speed.

    Danny is the chief executive of NHS Employers and also serves as deputy chief executive of the NHS Confederation, of which NHS Employers is part.

    Recorded 08/09/20

    38 min
  • Primary Care Talks: Why social prescribing really matters with Sir Sam Everington
    Episode 7 features Sir Sam Everington, a GP, Chair of the award-winning Tower Hamlets CCG in East London, former Trustee of the King's Fund, council member of the British Medical Association, a long term campaigner and activist. Sam tells us about social prescribing, a way of working with patients that he feels is essential to improving long term health, and vital to the future success of the NHS.
    34 min
  • Primary Care Talks: Atrial Fibrillation
    The fifth episode of Primary Care Talks is a medtech special featuring new technology being used to detect Atrial Fibrillation, a condition that could lead to stroke. It is estimated that over 400,000 people in the UK remain undiagnosed for AF. Dr Hasan Chowhan meets Caroline Prentice, a practice manager at Goldington Avenue Surgery in Bedford, and her colleague Emma Bowler a practice nurse, to give us an insight into how they have introduced this new technology at seven practices in the area.
    22 min

About Ideas to Impact: The Health Innovation East podcast

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Our purpose is to turn great ideas into positive health impact. In this podcast series we will be talking to people from across the innovation ecosystem to support us in this goal - from NHS leaders to clinical innovators, entrepreneurs and academics.