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Today is International Women's Day, which this year has the theme of #AccelerateAction. The goal is to help accelerate action towards a gender equal world. A world free of bias, stereotypes, and discrimination. A world that's diverse, equitable, and inclusive. A world where difference is valued and celebrated. We're proud to be a female owner-led company and always aim to empower gender equality wherever we can. How are you celebrating International Women's Day? #IWD2025 #AccelerateAction

We were delighted to gather yesterday in Chippenham to celebrate the first cohort of graduates from our new Commercialisation Academy, which we've been running with Triple Chasm. The course is designed to support health and care innovators whose products and services offer potential for wider adoption and scale. Let's hear it for... (drumroll please) Avid Health - engaging digital care programmes that comprise health coaching, content and data insights to drive proactive action for health risk reduction Laura Tan The Sound Doctor - bite-sized films and structured education courses to help people manage long-term conditions Rosie Runciman Dominic Arkwright Feedback Medical / Bleepa - a clinical collaboration platform designed to connect multiple NHS systems across care settings Richard Dulcamara Acumentice l B Corp Certified - automated patient pathway management, integrating data from multiple clinical systems to track patients accurately and in real-time Philip Purdy Karina Malhotra EXPERT SELF CARE LTD - creator of information and signposting apps for health and wellbeing service providers Knut Schroeder RateMyShift a real-time staff experience app that collects sentiment and feedback to facilitate timely dialogue between individuals and their line managers Olivia Crossing Annie Taylor Cognitant Group Limited - a platform connecting people with accessible health resources and self-management tools and facilitating shared decision-making Daisy Allington The innovators had the opportunity to pitch their offers and receive critical feedback from a panel of NHS colleagues from across the West of England. A big thank you for your insights, advice and encourage goes to Chris Trow, Lawrie Kidd, Owen Thomas of One Care (BNSSG) C.I.C., Sanjoy Shah, Sebastian Habibi, Tim Keen, Tasha Swinscoe and Peter Carpenter. And thank you of course to all the team at Triple Chasm: Sam Dods, Uday Phadke, Roz Fairburn - we look forward to doing it all again! Alex Leach Tara Copps Ben Hugill

Innovation with the NHS is hard. Really hard. Especially for those early on in their healthtech journey. Today I felt incredibly lucky and was invited to sit on a panel at the finale of a Commercialisation Academy for #healthtech innovators in the South West. Hosted by the Health Innovation West of England, 6 early stage hand-picked companies have been on a journey developing their offering, getting advice and finessing their pitches. They also have developed a real community and camaraderie amongst themselves, which given what a bruising place healthcare innovation is, was wonderful to see. Mentored and led by the Triple Chasm, it was abundantly clear how much these #founders have gained from their journey. But, it is probably just the beginning. This means the hard knocks, the bruises, the rejections and the huge amount of graft behind the scenes has only just begun. Innovating is hard. Innovating with the NHS as a client is really, really hard - and I really wish those who were there today all the best. Great pitches, great ideas, and (mostly!) a great panel asking probing and challenging questions. Avid Health - showing the power of engaging patients in their care with health coaches and #ai Laura Tan The Sound Doctor - inspired audiovisuals and content with an eye on our rich and diverse population Rosie Runciman Dominic Arkwright Feedback Medical / Bleepa - realising a solution for fragmented MDT care and communications Richard Dulcamara Acumentice l B Corp Certified and the Sigma team Philip Purdy Karina Malhotra - leveraging years of experiences in Operations into usable dashboards, process automation and meaningful productivity gains EXPERT SELF CARE LTD - using frontline experience to provide curated and locally appropriate resources Knut Schroeder RateMyShift providing real-time barometers of staff well-being and morale Olivia Crossing Annie Taylor And a big thank you to the other panel members for their wisdom and insights. Sanjoy Shah, Owen Thomas from One Care (BNSSG) C.I.C., Chris Trow, Natasha Swinscoe Tim Keen Peter Carpenter Sebastian Habibi Sam Dods Uday Phadke Roz Fairburn - keep doing what you're doing. It sounds like a wonderful program you've been running. Honorable mention to Cognitant Group Limited whom had to withdraw from today at short notice.

🥼 Empowering health - how UTIs could be diagnosed at home! 🥼 UTIs affect 50-60% of women and account for around 3% of UK GP appointments, but what if this very common health problem could be diagnosed and treated at home? "With our products, you can diagnose a UTI in the comfort, convenience and privacy of your own home," TestCard.com co-founder Andrew Botham told Karina Malhotra in episode 3 of the Inside Health Innovation podcast. "And then access treatment the next day." Check out the clip below which highlights how important UTI treatment is, especially to female health. You can watch/listen the full episode wherever you get your podcasts: https://lnkd.in/encGZJ9h And don't forgot to like and subscribe for future episodes!

Was mental health ignored in the latest NHS planning guidance? Karina Malhotra and Michael Watson discuss how the absence of any mention of community mental health waiting times standards felt very strange, but Michael says it's also important to look at the positives. "The Mental Health Investment Standard was preserved, and it was good to see recognition of the importance of reducing length of stay through crisis services, and the long-standing commitment to the reduction of inpatient beds for those with learning disabilities and autism," Michael said. That said, he argued that only focusing on #crisis and #inpatient services - and not looking at #community services - meant you were only looking at half of the picture. "We all know that people deteriorate when they're waiting for longer, and are then more likely to present in crisis and be in those very inpatient beds we're trying to reduce," Michael added. Check out the full clip below and the full video here: https://lnkd.in/egCQ_4dS

🎙️Home tests can help revolutionise prostate #cancer screening! 🎙️ In episode 3 of the Inside Health Innovation Podcast, Andrew Botham tells Karina Malhotra about a new model for #prostatecancer screening that involves sending #test kits to people's homes and enabling men to do it in a private setting with no-one standing over their shoulder. "Men are really bad at going into clinical settings and admitting something's wrong, but they're very good at adopting new technology and doing things at their own steam in the privacy of their own home," Andrew said. "They can do the test and this is then sent centrally to understand what the next steps might need to be." Shockingly, for prostate cancer, when letters go out to high-risk populations only around 30% of people answer that letter. Prostate cancer kills more people than any other cancer, but survival rates up to stage 3 are really good - highlighting the importance of catching it early and having a more open conversation about it among men. You can see the full clip below and watch/listen to the whole episode for more great insights: https://lnkd.in/encGZJ9h

Check out this quick video with our Founder and MD, Karina Malhotra, at HETT North last week - where she discussed how AI is transforming healthcare!

Can the NHS hit the elective care targets set by the government by March 2026 (65%) and achieve the full uplift to 92% by summer 2029? And will the mechanisms set out in the elective care reform plan help to deliver this? Michael Watson and Karina Malhotra chew the fat on this and other issues that arose from the release of the NHS planning guidance. 👉 Check out the full video here: https://lnkd.in/e75iXRST 👉 Check out our blog on the topic here: https://lnkd.in/eAkUBWBN #waitingtimes #electivecare #electivereformplan #NHSplanningguidance

B Corp Month is back! As we enter our second year as a certified B Corporation, we are delighted to be involved in this special month - which celebrates all the fantastic B Corpers in the UK - once again. We believe there’s a better path to a better world - one of action and purpose, inspiration and community. This movement is powered by an emerging generation of people using business as a force for good. We call it #GenB. This #BCorpMonth, we will be celebrating our work alongside thousands of other B Corps around the world. Follow the #BCorpMonth and #GenB hashtags to learn how we’re changing the future of business! 

In this latest edition of our newsletter, we delve into one of the most important - and longest-running - issues of our time: #healthinequalities. Why do some parts of Britain receive better healthcare than others? Why does it depend so much on your ethnicity and your socio-economic status? And what impact did #Covid have? Read on to find out more!