What happens when a cardiologist calls bullshit on NHS innovation — and then builds an AI company to fix it?

In this episode, Karina speaks with Dr Dom Pimenta, CEO & Founder of Tortus AI, about why clinicians spend more time clicking than caring, how ambient AI is already doubling patient throughput, and why he quit a consultant cardiology career, took out a second mortgage and bet everything on a prototype he built in a week.

Dom shares how Tortus AI went from a black-and-white Python demo to processing 15,000 consultations a month across NHS hospitals, and why he believes Dr. ChatGPT will soon be better than the doctor.

If you've ever wondered what it really takes to build AI that works on the NHS frontline — this episode is for you.

🎧 Listen now and discover why Tortus AI is one of the most talked about companies in NHS health tech.

What does joy have to do with healthcare?

In this episode, Karina speaks with Patrick Harding, CEO & Founder of Joy, about redefining preventive care, changing behaviour, and why “joy is the serious business of heaven.”

Patrick shares how he built Joy from scratch, validated the idea before writing a line of code, and why their approach boosts preventive service attendance from 3–6% to 60%.

If you’ve ever wondered how purpose, technology, and human behaviour collide to build something truly impactful — this episode is for you.

🎧 Listen now and discover why Joy is fast becoming one of the most talked-about ideas in preventive health.

What if the smallest ideas from NHS staff could create the biggest impact?

In this episode, we speak with Lara Mott, CEO and co-founder of ImproveWell, about her leap from the investment world to co-founding an award-winning, real-time feedback platform for everyday innovation in healthcare. We discuss:

• Why Lara left her “forever job” to start ImproveWell

• How frontline staff ideas can save time, money and even improve patient safety

• The challenges and rewards of scaling innovation in the NHS

Lara also shares candid advice for entrepreneurs on credibility, resilience and why progress is often invisible until suddenly, it’s not.

🎧 Listen now to discover how ImproveWell is giving NHS staff a voice — and why those voices are shaping the future of healthcare.

What happens when healthcare technology creates more risk than it removes?

In this episode, we speak with Dr Paul Jewell, co-founder of Assuric, about his journey from the NHS frontline to building a company that accelerates the safe adoption of digital health tools. We discuss:

• The hidden dangers of inefficient health IT systems

• Why compliance is vital - but too often painfully slow

• How Assuric is helping health tech companies and the NHS cut compliance from months to weeks

Paul also shares candid advice for aspiring health innovators on resilience, co-founders, and making a real impact.

🎧 Listen now to discover how safer, smarter digital health adoption could transform patient care.

Why is it so hard for small innovators to sell to the NHS – and what can we do about it?

In this episode of Inside Health Innovation, Karina Malhotra sits down with Uday Phadke, co-founder of Triple Chasm, to unpack the realities of commercialising innovation in healthcare.

Drawing on data from over 3,000 companies worldwide, Uday explains:

• The structural barriers that make it hard for SMEs to engage with the NHS

• Why large suppliers dominate – and why they’re not always the most innovative

• How running small-scale “experiments” could unlock faster adoption of health innovations

• The role of data, procurement, and risk in shaping what gets implemented

Whether you’re an innovator, policymaker, or healthcare leader, this conversation offers practical insights into turning great ideas into real-world impact.

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In this episode of Inside Health Innovation, Karina Malhotra sits down with Mindy Simon, Co-Director of the NHS Innovation Accelerator (NIA) – one of the NHS’s most respected programmes for scaling proven health innovations.

Mindy shares her unique perspective on driving change in a complex system, offering candid insights on:

• How the NIA helps innovators spread impactful solutions across the NHS

• Why successful health innovation often takes a decade, not months

• The challenges of decision-making in times of flux – and what innovators can do to stay resilient

If you’re an innovator, healthcare leader, or simply curious about how great ideas can transform the NHS, this episode is full of practical wisdom and inspiration.

In episode 7, Dr. Nayan Kalnad, co-founder and CEO of digital health company Avegen Health, joins Inside Health Innovation to share his journey scaling patient engagement solutions across the NHS and global health systems.

Dr. Kalnad chats with host Karina Malhotra about the challenges of designing digital platforms that patients actually use, how Avegen has built partnerships to drive better health outcomes, and why evidence-based engagement is critical for sustainable healthtech adoption.

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In episode 6, Ameet Bakhai - a renowned cardiologist and researcher who is also co-founder of email automation specialists AirEmail - chats to host Karina Malhotra about technostress, the number of emails that get missed in the NHS each day, and how solving this issue could help increase productivity amongst the workforce.

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In this episode, Dr Silja Litvin from PsycApps tells host Karina Malhotra how building resilience in teenagers and young people could save the NHS £208 million on waitlists alone, how interactive roleplaying and gaming can significantly lower depression and anxiety, and the challenges she came up against in getting investors to take a digital mental health solution seriously.

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In episode 4 of the Inside Health Innovation podcast, Sachin Gupta from Hippo Labs sits down with host Karina Malhotra to discuss why proper investment in preventative health can bring so many benefits, the inspiration he took from his grandfather, and why a patient-centric approach to healthcare is so vital!

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