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Engaging Stakeholders

Engaging Stakeholders

“Stakeholders” - another piece of industry jargon that is frequently thrown in the faces of entrepreneurs. “Who are your stakeholders?” “How will you engage them?” you are asked on training courses and funding rounds. Now, I grew up as a member of a family of...

Fair Funding for Rural Areas

Fair Funding for Rural Areas

January saw the closing date for the Provisional Local Government Finance Settlement consultation. This consultation currently shows that rural communities receive 37% less in central government funding than urban communities.  This is an outrage!  Rural communities...

Reasons for Gratitude

Reasons for Gratitude

I am going to start this blog with a confession - my guilty pleasure is watching American medical dramas. My particular show of choice at the moment is New Amsterdam. One of the reasons for enjoying these shows is that they reflect the differences...

Is your innovation award-winning?

Is your innovation award-winning?

This week I will be working on four separate HSJ Digital Award applications.  All of my clients have innovative products and/or services which improve patients’ lives, so I love to help them shout about what they are doing. If any of these reach the finals, I...

Technology Transfer

Technology Transfer

One of the greatest privileges in my working career is working with spin-out and startup companies. These companies are led by highly motivated people with life-changing ideas, who are looking for the market insight and structure to move their products and...

A gradual return to normal service

A gradual return to normal service

It has been a long time since I last wrote a blog for many reasons, mainly because a consultant specialising in healthcare market entry and access for innovations tends to get quite busy during a pandemic (who’d have thought it?). Another reason is that I was so busy,...

Standing on the Shoulders of Giants

Standing on the Shoulders of Giants

I don’t know how many times during this pandemic I have said things like “just imagine how this would be if we didn’t have computers”, or “people would have died in their millions if it wasn’t possible to work from home”. We all consider ourselves fortunate to live in...

What is a Market Access Report?

What is a Market Access Report?

Market Access Reports are something frequently requested by our clients. So what are they, and why are they useful? The problem Let’s take an example of Susan. Susan is a director of a company (Wet Stop) which has developed a new technology which can help identify...

The future of digitally enabled healthcare

The future of digitally enabled healthcare

(Original article written for Rehab Guru) “We are at a unique juncture in the history of medicine, with the convergence of genomics, biosensors, the electronic patient record and smartphone apps, all superimposed on a digital infrastructure, with artificial...

The NHS will not pay to improve patient safety

The NHS will not pay to improve patient safety

(Original article written for Patient Safety Learning) You may think that I am saying this to be contentious, but sadly I am not.  As an independent business consultant who supports new businesses and entrepreneurs in...