The Healthcare Today Podcast

This week's guest is Kavita Parmar, a former optometrist and the co-founder of Word360. Kavita saw firsthand how much can go wrong when patients and clinicians don't speak the same language - and how often that gap gets papered over rather than properly solved. That frontline experience led her to launch Word360, providing multilingual support across the NHS, so patients and clinicians can underst...

Our guest this week is Paul McKeown, Head of Product at NEC Health - one of the NHS's most significant technology and data partners. NEC delivers national programmes for newborn hearing and diabetic eye for the national screening service in Ireland; and the tracking/failsafe software for national newborn screening in England – with more than ten million babies screened to date… In short, Paul has...

This week's guest is Dr Rahul Goyal, a practising GP and Clinical Executive at Elsevier, a global leader in advanced information and decision support for science and healthcare. With many clinicians reaching for whatever AI tools are free and available, often with little institutional guidance, the burden of working out what's safe and what's not is falling on individuals who were never trained to...

Today, we're looking at one of the most urgent issues affecting women's health in the UK: The fact that Black women are still nearly three times more likely to die during pregnancy or childbirth than White women. However, there are innovations in medtech that are starting to change the picture, particularly around simulation-based training for the obstetric emergencies that disproportionately affe...

Our guest this week is Antoine Pivron, Vice President of Withings Health Solutions, where he leads the global B2B healthcare division across Europe and the US, working with more than 300 healthcare partners and supporting more than one million patients in remote monitoring programmes. Today, we're talking about GLP-1 therapies, the weight-loss drugs that have captured global attention. But, beyond...

Our guest this week is Christoph Lippuner, founder and CEO of private healthcare platform Semble. Clinician burnout isn’t just about long hours, it’s about spending those hours wrestling with disconnected systems instead of caring for patients, with every lost referral, billing delay and manual follow-up adding friction and risk. Today, Christoph talks about why connected systems are the missing l...

Our guests this week are Professor Niels Peek, Professor of Data Science and Healthcare Improvement at The Healthcare Improvement Studies Institute at the University of Cambridge; and Dr Ben Brown, GP partner in Salford, Clinical Senior Lecturer at the University of Manchester, and a Medical Director at OneAdvanced Ltd. Ben is also the primary investigator on the ‘Using AI to help prioritise urgen...

Our guests this week are Dr. Sheila Bond, Wolters Kluwer’s Director of Clinical Content Strategy; and Christian Cella, Vice President and General Manager of Wolters Kluwer Health's international segment. As we stand at the precipice of a massive information transition - the era of artificial intelligence - the very nature of knowledge is shifting… It's becoming dynamic, fluid, and context-dependen...

Our guest this week is Dr Lizzie Tuckey, a practicing clinician and the UK Managing Director of Scan.com. The United Kingdom has historically been cautious with scans… GPs often refer to specialists before imaging can be requested, while in some European countries patients can self-book directly. The result is that waiting times in the UK can stretch to six weeks, while others get answers in days....

Our guest today is Steve Roest, CEO and co-founder of PocDoc - a rapidly scaling health technology company working with NHS partners and major pharmacy retailers across the UK. Today, we're talking about the trials and tribulations of scaling a healthtech company inside one of the most complex health systems in the world: the NHS. We’ll be talking about the real mistakes founders make and how prev...

Our guests this week are Leon Kobinger and Nicolas Gehring, co-founders of CertHub, a firm that uses AI to help medical device companies navigate regulatory compliance in Europe. For most medtech startups and smaller manufacturers, getting a device approved means facing up to three years of documentation, registration and preparation… That timeline can be a real problem, not just for companies try...

Our guest this week is Cardiff University’s Professor Daniel Gartner, a specialist in operational research and healthcare modelling. Every day, the NHS performs a logistical miracle organising thousands of appointments, emergency calls, surgeries, and discharges. However, anyone who has faced a long waiting list or a cancelled clinic knows the system is under immense strain. We often assume the so...

Our guest today is Dr. Antony Rix, founder and CEO of Lucida Medical, an AI-powered prostate cancer diagnostics platform backed in part by Macmillan Cancer Support. In the UK, we diagnose about half of all cancers too late, but we also do hundreds of thousands of biopsies and other tests – and most of these are negative. The problem is that current diagnosis tools can’t always tell aggressive canc...

Our guest today is Chris Dexter, partner at law firm Weightmans. Today, with reports of cosmetic procedures taking place everywhere from hotel rooms to garden sheds and even public toilets, we’re talking about the unregulated ‘wild west’ that is the cosmetics sector. As the Women and Equalities Committee calls for an immediate ban on high-risk procedures and warns that further delay is untenable,...

Recorded live at HLTH Europe in Amsterdam, today, we’re asking ‘What if the best time for healthtech founders to plan an exit is before they think they’re even ready?’ Sari Kaganoff is the CEO and founder of Aytza, where she helps healthtech companies navigate new markets, commercialisation, and M&A using expert advisors and proprietary AI. She previously led Rock Health’s consulting practice...

Recorded live at HLTH Europe in Amsterdam, our guest today is Niraj Dalmia, the Head of AI for Healthcare at Deloitte Canada. Niraj brings deep experience across multiple jurisdictions, from the NHS to global health systems, and has been at the forefront of deploying AI not as a bolt-on, but as a core driver of value. Today, we’re talking about real, end-to-end AI transformations that are fundamen...

Our guest today is Anshumen Bhagat, NHS GP principal and chief medical officer at private healthcare provider GPDQ… With more than 20 years of experience, Dr Bhagat is renowned for his outstanding contributions to the medical field, specifically his dedicated work to reduce NHS waiting lists through the use of digital technology. Today, we’re talking about why mental health is central to successfu...

Our guest today is Emily Harrison, the founder and managing director of Nexus HE, a global accredited provider of independent medical education. Today, we’re talking about what traditional medical education models get wrong and why AI-driven, personalised learning will fundamentally redefine the relationship between the clinician and the classroom…

Our guest today is Isobel Egemole, an investment director specialising in healthtech at London VC firm, IW Capital. Femtech serves more than half the global population and its market is growing 60% faster than the rest of healthcare - however, in 2024, it attracted less than one-tenth of digital health funding. Here, Isobel discusses why femtech founders can’t afford to wait for investors to wake...

Healthcare professionals participating in this podcast have received honoraria from Astellas Pharma Ltd in recognition of their time and expertise in preparing and delivering this content. The opinions expressed are those of the speaker and do not necessarily represent the official position of Astellas Pharma Ltd. This podcast is intended for UK healthcare professionals only.   Our guest today is...

Our guest today is Ben Pumphrey, a legal director in the governance, funding and corporate team at national law firm Anthony Collins. As data and cybersecurity threats increase, a growing number of high-profile breaches have rocked the health and social care sector, creating significant real-world consequences for both patients and providers. With threats escalating, cost pressures mounting, and n...

Our guest today is Dr Harvinder Power, a practicing clinician, and the co-founder and CEO of Motics, a healthcare automation platform that provides AI agents for clinical documentation, billing, and patient communication. With its potential to streamline admin, increase capacity and provide a better patient experience, today we’re talking about how artificial intelligence can help private clinics...

Our guests this week are Paula Bellostas Muguerza, Global Lead of Healthcare and Life Sciences at Kearney, and Elena Bonfiglioli, Global Business Leader for Healthcare, Pharma and Life Sciences at Microsoft. According to the World Economic Forum, women spend 25% more of their lives in ill health than men. Additionally, only 5% of medicines are properly tested for use during pregnancy… As AI become...

Our guest today is Ted Fischer, chief executive of Ageless Innovation, a tech firm aiming to improve the lives of older adults through the power of play. As health systems grapple with ageing populations, staff shortages and rising demand, non-pharmacological ways of wellbeing support are being sought out… This is what led Ted to explore the potential of robotic companion pets. Today, we’re talkin...

Our guest today is Vanessa Emslie, chief medical officer at women's health and longevity company Willbe. Today, we’re taking a precision medicine approach to perimenopause, talking about the rapid change in the adoption of hormone replacement therapy, shifting clinical barriers and the “revolving door of patient attrition”…