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Santa Cruz Skateboards has a hand in your nostalgia
A batch of fiberglass boards became a business. A blue hand became its calling card. Santa Cruz now sells the past alongside hardware built to take another beating.
DigitalHealth.London tackles the hard part: getting the NHS to use your idea
A working health app is only the beginning. DigitalHealth.London helps founders find the evidence, relationships and practical footing to turn a promising product into something the NHS can use.
The NHS has good ideas. South London’s HIN helps put them to work.
From faster wound healing to diabetes classes that understand the dinner table, Health Innovation Network South London tackles the awkward distance between a promising idea and everyday care.
Involve makes the video call fit the hospital
A working camera is only the beginning. Involve Visual Collaboration builds the rooms, waiting rooms and support services that let healthcare teams get on with the appointment.
Nervecentre wants the whole hospital on the same page
A bedside software specialist is taking on the hospital-wide patient record. Its NHS contracts reveal the appeal of shared information - and the hard work of getting everyone to use it.
Patchwork Health wants the NHS to rethink the empty shift
Two NHS doctors built a business around the gap in the rota. Patchwork now connects staffing, scheduling and job planning - with a sales pitch that has to satisfy both exhausted clinicians and the people paying the bills.
Sensyne Health’s £60 Million Bet on NHS Data
Sensyne offered hospitals a share of the proceeds from AI research. A cash crisis forced a rescue, a new name and a smaller business - while its pregnancy-diabetes app found a life of its own.
Skin Analytics wants to shorten the skin cancer queue
Its AI can release selected patients from an urgent cancer pathway without a dermatologist reviewing their images. The harder achievement is making that decision work inside a real health service.
DrDoctor wants the NHS to stop wasting the next appointment
The founders planned an app. Patients wanted a useful text. That small correction became a business built around a costly NHS problem: getting the right person into the right appointment.
TPP wants your medical record to stop starting over
The company behind SystmOne has built a business around a simple promise: one patient, one record. Its most revealing results come from fixing the small administrative failures that make healthcare feel so disjointed.
RioMed and the patient record that stays
Fifteen years of clinical history can make software hard to replace. From Welsh rheumatology clinics to Guyana’s national EHR project, RioMed’s Cellma shows why the patient record is only the beginning.
The Doctor Who Built a Research Machine Because He Never Had Time to Do Research
Dr Matt Wilson spent 14-hour shifts in emergency medicine with no time to eat, let alone run a study. So he built a platform that makes the research happen without the clinician lifting a finger - and pharma is paying to plug in.
SmartSurvey
The British survey company that decided keeping your data on home soil was a feature, not a footnote - and built a 600,000-user business on it.
Alastair Blake
Alastair Blake is the Chief Business Officer of Layer Health, an MIT-spinout building an AI layer for clinical chart review backed by Google Ventures, General Catalyst and Define Ventures. A Cambridge-trained physician (MD, MRCP) turned commercial operator, he trained as an internal medicine doctor in the NHS, served a National Medical Director's Clinical Fellowship at the Care Quality Commission, earned an MBA from Wharton, consulted at McKinsey, and led clinical and commercial partnerships at the healthcare data company nference before joining Layer Health in 2024. He sits at the intersection of medicine, data and go-to-market - a doctor who now sells the software meant to give doctors their time back.
Harpreet Mangat
Harpreet Mangat is a British-trained neurosurgeon turned Stanford MBA and McKinsey consultant who now serves as Chief Strategy Officer and Chief of Staff to the CEO at Hippocratic AI, a $3.5 billion healthcare AI company building clinically safe generative AI agents for patient engagement. His rare career arc - from brain surgery and ICU care during COVID-19, through venture capital and management consulting, to the frontier of healthcare AI - makes him one of the most credentialed operator-clinicians in the industry.