News & Views

Stephen Hughes is an Antimicrobial Consultant Pharmacist and Trust lead for the antimicrobial stewardship service at the Chelsea & Westminster NHS Trust. In this blog, Stephen shares how his interests in improving prescribing in the face of antimicrobial resistance and digital transformation combine, and how we must balance pragmatism with our ambitious ideas when implementing new technological solutions in the NHS.

Bianca Parau, Paediatric Dietitian at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, shares her experiences and insights of managing childhood obesity, and provides an overview of her Horizon Fellowship project – a multidisciplinary behavioural change digital curriculum to empower children and their families.

Karen West, Head of Transformation for Mental Health at DigitalHealth.London Accelerator alumni company Oxehealth, reflects on how technology could help tackle the current NHS workforce crisis.

Sara Nelson, newly appointed Programme Director for DigitalHealth.London, reflects on her journey in the NHS and the digital health sector, and shares her vision for the future.

Horizon Fellow Kimberley Forbes is Consultant Sexual Health/HIV at John Hunter Clinic and Kobler Clinic and Service Lead for Contraception at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital. In this blog she shares how she has adopted a solutions-based approach to her work in healthcare and some of the models and ideas she’s used to bring her closer to her goals.

Jessica Chiu, NHS Navigator at DigitalHealth.London, shares insights into the importance of inclusive design and her top tips on how to achieve this in digital health.

Jonathan Knight, Co-Founder of Compassly, provides an overview of the challenges of clinical competencies, and how Compassly’s comprehensive app aims to help healthcare professionals seamlessly work across multiple organisations, and healthcare providers to develop and retain their staff.

James Cleland, Superintendent of Nuclear Medicine at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, dives into what Nuclear Medicine is and the idea behind his Horizon Fellowship project.

Christina Sothinathan, NHS Navigator at DigitalHealth.London discusses how Artificial Intelligence could be used to support NHS staff and patients. Drawing on her own experiences as a Clinician, she reflects on how Limbic, a company on the Accelerator programme, are specifically tackling this issue across mental health pathways.

Nick Bennett, Founder of Fika, discusses how the NHS workforce crisis could be tackled through providing staff with access to appropriate training and development opportunities and how their mental fitness platform, Fika, could help resolve this issue.

Chris Evans, CEO and co-founder of Little Journey, explains why Little Journey was set up, how it works, and what’s coming next for the company.

Antoine Lever, Co-founder and Commercial Director of babblevoice, charts the company’s journey from two guys in a garage, to a cutting-edge telephony provider for hundreds of surgeries up and down the country, serving thousands of patients.