Welcome back to TheHill's Digital Innovation Podcast! On this second episode of our series about clinical needs, our director Megan Morys-Carter talks to Charlie Winward, consultant allied health professional in neurorehabilitation and Katie Butler, highly specialist physiotherapist and clinical lead physiotherapist for stroke at Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust. They discuss how their jobs have changed with the adoption of digital innovation, the challenges to adoption, and the ultimate positives of innovation which make it worth committing to for the future. This episode was recorded on the 15th of November 2023.

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Welcome to the new series of TheHill’s Digital Innovation podcast. This series is focused on the clinical needs of hospital staff, and how they have been able to meet some of these with digital innovation.

In this first episode, Megan Morys-Carter, director of TheHill, sits down with Sneha Sunny, Trainee Advanced Clinical Practitioner in Acute General Medicine, to discuss her journey through ten years in the NHS, her drive to support further staff and patient groups, and how digital innovation can help to bring meaningful improvement in her area of work. This episode was recorded on the 15th of November 2023.

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In the final episode of season 1, Megan speaks to Lisa Rickers, Bariatric Nurse Specialist and nurse innovator. Lisa is co-founder of the start-up Pretomise.

In this episode, radiologists Amy Davis and Farzana Rahman, talk to Megan about the development of Hexarad, the company they cofounded with two other radiologists. With the company now employing 15 core staff and 50 radiologists, they discuss bootstrapping, raising their first investment, company culture and values, their charitable activites and diversity and inclusion. This episode was recorded in October 2021

Myra Malik is a Substantive Consultant Anaesthetist at The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. She discusses the importance of needs led innovation, and how to benefit from diversity of perspectives in making a startup team stronger, and how solutions impact more than just a doctor's way of working, but every person that will need to use it for adoption to be successful. This episode was recorded in October 2021.

Dr Zeeshan Akhtar is specialist registrar at Oxford University Hospitals. He set up led and has successfully exited from his start-up Scout Health. In this, the third in our autumn season of discussions, he speaks to Megan Morys-Carter, director of TheHill. This episode was originally recorded in October 2021.

In our autumn season of discussions, Megan Morys-Carter, director of TheHill speaks to health and care workers about their digital innovations and the journey they have been on as they champion digital innovation in the NHS. In the second in this series, she speaks to Dr George Hadjipavlou about HealthCare Dynamics, the start-up he founded with Richard Siviter.

This episode was originally recorded in October 2021.

Dr Rachael Grimaldi, was inspired to create CardMedic® after reading a news article about a critically ill Covid-19 survivor, terrified when unable to understand healthcare staff through the PPE barrier. She is co-founder and CEO of this multi award-winning unique digital communication tool - endorsed by NICE and ORCHA, and part of the Department for International Trade's Digital Health Export Offer.

She talks to TheHill's Director, Megan Morys-Carter about how it all started.

This episode was recorded on the 19th April 2021.