HealthTech Hour

Dr Mark Hudson-Peacock is a Clinician turned serial entrepreneur, including being a trailblazer in the field of Pharmacogenomics - finding medicines that work better based on your individual genome.

Pharmacogenomics was included in the NHS 10 Year Plan as a "big bet" to save the NHS.

He is the founder/CEO of Mantara Health Ltd, responsible for launching the first commercially available Pharmacogenomics (PGx) test in the UK.

Dr Taz Aldawoud is a GP, NHS Innovation Accelerator Fellow and founding CEO of Doc Abode, a nationally recognised digital health company enabling the NHS to deliver faster, safer care closer to home.

With over 20 years’ clinical experience and an MBA specialising in Strategic Healthcare Management, he combines frontline insight with a strong record in digital transformation.

He spent more than a decade as Director of Clinical Innovation at West Yorkshire’s urgent care provider, where he pioneered one of the NHS’s first award-winning telehealth services. Taz is currently Chief Clinical Information Officer for the We...

In this episode, Steve Roest, CEO of PocDoc speaks to Lord (James) Bethell.

Lord Bethell is an entrepreneur, former health minister and champion for public health. He has a twenty-year track record working across government, media and industry, working at The Sunday Times, the US Senate, and the EU Commission.

He has built and sold communications companies and helped make the Ministry of Sound a global success story. As a minister at the Department for Health and Social Care, he helped lead the UK national response to the Covid epidemic. He is currently a member...

On today's show, Steve Roest, CEO of PocDoc speaks to Dr Natalie Banner is Chief Ethics and Engagement Officer at Genomics England, an organisation owned by the UK Government to provide the evidence and digital systems to drive advances in genomic research and medicine, and to support the implementation of genomics in healthcare.

Genomics is being hailed as one of the big developments that will usher in an age of health, wealth and prosperity, but do you really know what it means? And what the ethical issues are around mapping our entire genetic structures?

Natalie...

Valentina Milanova is the founder and CEO of Daye, a gynae health research and development company seeking to close the gender health gap with proprietary medical and diagnostic devices aimed at common, yet under-served gynae health conditions, ranging from period and pelvic pain to cervical cancer prevention.

Valentina is a huge advocate for women's health and this show goes into detail on the chronic underfunding, lack of access and disparities in care women face across the world.

It also covers how Valentina is remaking the world and winning, increasing access to pain relief during periods...

Very special show this week - Steve Roest's guest is Igor Araújo, a Brazilian professional mixed martial artist who has an incredible story of pursuing his dream of fighting at the highest level, against all odds.

A professional competitor since 2004, Igor has competed for the UFC, M-1 Global, Shooto, KSW, and was a contestant on The Ultimate Fighter.

He has won the European Jujitsu Championships 4 times and now dedicates himself to training future generations.

Igor credits his faith in God, his love for his family and his commitment to hard work as c...

Wendy Powell never accepted that incontinence, back pain, diastasis and intimacy problems were "just part of being a woman".

She used her physio background to embark on a mission to fight for the importance of evidence based solutions for Pelvic Floor health in women.

In this episiode, Steve Roest and Wendy go into detail on why Pelvic Floor health isn't a minor issue, it affects billions of women worldwide.

Wendy Powell is the founder of MUTU System, the digital pelvic health solution clinically validated and contracted by the NHS, and partnered with a...

Devika Wood, Steve Roest's guest on this show, is the CEO of Brain+, a pioneering health technology company transforming dementia care through its digital platform, Ayla.

Devika is also one of the most inspirational people in European HealthTech.

Over the past 13+ years, she has worked across startups and multinationals, from Google and Babylon to founding Vida, which exited in 2019, and leading digital health strategy at AXA Health. Recognised as a Forbes 30 Under 30 entrepreneur,

She has also been named King’s Entrepreneur of the Year and featured in the United Nations #SheInnovates campaign for ad...

Dan Vahdat is the founder and CEO of Huma, a healthcare AI company valued at over $1 billion, dedicated to accelerating the adoption of digital solutions in healthcare and research.

In this episode he speaks to Steve Roest, founder and CEO of PocDoc on his journey to creating Huma, his philosophies on growing complex companies in complex industries and on why he split Huma into units with their own CEO.

Huma’s technology has powered more than 1,000 clinical trials and is used in 4,500 hospitals and clinics across the US and beyond. Its platform has screened, triaged, an...

Giles Tully is CEO of PinPoint Data Science, the company behind the ‘PinPoint Test’, a completely unique AI-driven test that can diagnose 9 of the top 14 most common cancers faster, better and more affordably than the current NHS process.

Giles lost his mother at 16 and has used that event to fuel his career which includes going to China with no Mandarin, learning the language and ending up producing one of China's most popular rock bands and becoming a popstar in China himself.

Pam Garside is one of the most well respected, well connected people in the UK and European healthcare industry. She is an advisor to the NHS, venture capital investors and the UK government. She is also a leading angel investor, having supported generations of entrepreneurs on their journey.

Pam Garside has had a career in health care systems and digital health in the UK and internationally and is an angel investor in early-stage health tech companies. She is Chair of Cambridge Angels and sits on the board of Crown Place Venture Capital Trust, as well as founding...

It's summer, the sun is shining and temptation is high. How many of us are consuming more than we want to, of alcohol or other substances? How many of us want to either reduce or stop, but can't?

How can technology play a role? That's where Dr David McLaughan comes in, with his digital app and community, Curb.

Many of us want to reduce our consumption of harmful substances, but can't. Some of us would benefit from completely stopping.

In addition to Curb, David is one of the UK's leading addiction psychiatrists, works...

The timing for this show is perfect with the upcoming NHS 10 Year Plan being announced imminently.

The “NHS is slow to adopt technology” but “the UK has great innovative tech” debate has raged for years.

Our guest today Richard Stubbs, the Chief Executive of Health Innovation Yorkshire & Humber is a veteran of this back and forth and the perfect guest.

Richard and his team work alongside the NHS to understand the challenges faced in delivering patient care, and to support the introduction of new, innovative ways of working that can both improve care, and redu...

In this episode Steve Roest, CEO of PocDoc, speaks to Sharlene Lopez, a healthcare branding expert on how important branding really is in Health - especially given the clinical evidence, regulatory pressures and complexities in clinician and patient care. Does branding really matter?

Sharlene Lopez is an award-winning brand and growth strategist with 30 years of experience across healthcare, spanning both pharma and health tech. She is the founder of a strategy-first brand agency focused on health innovation and currently serves as Chief Growth Officer at Alertive, a leading health tech company transforming clinical communication.

This episode exposes why we should all care more about our pharmacies in the UK and pulls the curtain back on how reliant we are on the work they do.

It is a follow up to the show with Nick Kaye earlier in the year around the crisis in funding for the industry and risks to patients.

Steve Roest, CEO of PocDoc speaks to Richard Harrison, a 25 year veteran of Community Pharmacy and huge advocate for the industry.

Richard Harrison is a Pharmacist and the Healthcare Services Manager for Asda, where he leads...

It can take up to 5 years to get a first Mental Health appointment in some parts of the UK.

Large parts of this backlog are due to increase in demand, but Dr Melinda Rees, today's guest with Steve Roest, argues that administrative burden accounts for a huge amount.

Dr. Melinda Rees is CEO of Psyomics, an integrated healthtech and biotech company that is redesigning how we access and interact with mental health services at scale, to eliminate the backlog in appointments.

A 30 year NHS Mental Health clinician, Dr Melinda is perfectly positioned to...

Steve Roest, CEO of PocDoc speaks to Dr Amar Ahmed, one of the UK's leading GPs and a long-time advocate of introducing technology to solve the massive problems we're seeing across the UK in frontline healthcare.

Amar is a regular at No.10 and the United Nations, where he advises on integrating new tech into the healthcare system.

Dr Amar Ahmed has been a GP partner for 24 years at a busy family GP surgery in Cheshire. Known for pioneering innovation in primary care, he has developed practical, award-winning solutions for the NHS frontline.

Mo is the inspirational founder and CEO of Patients Know Best which today has over 5 million registered patients and is working with over 100 health providers to release around 26.5 million data points every month.

His mission is to give all patients access to their health data because it leads to better health for everyone.

This is a fascinating deep-dive into an area that is continually touted as "the future of health" by governments, think tanks and venture capital alike.

Mo is a multi-published author and possibly the world's leading expert in patient data.

Speaking to Steve Roest, CEO of PocDoc this week are Kelly and Morgan the co-founders of Perci Health, the UK’s largest virtual cancer clinic, delivering early detection, comprehensive cancer management, and survivorship support. They are on a mission to radically improve global cancer outcomes.

After you've done the standard treatments, it can often feel like you're being kicked out without any plan.

That's where Kelly and Morgan's company, Perci Health, comes in. Looking at NHS-approved clinical support, mental health support, physiotherapy and nutrition.

Their view is that more and more people will be...

Steve Roest, CEO of PocDoc speaks to Nick Kaye, the Chair of the National Pharmacy Association.

He is on a mission to save Community Pharmacy, in the face of huge changes in demand for healthcare and demands from Government about what pharmacies have to deliver in the new health landscape in the UK.

He is a third-generation community pharmacist, cares deeply about the entire industry and is passionate about how exciting the future of community pharmacy is.

Steve Roest, CEO of PocDoc speaks to Shaun Stafford, who is a multi-time world champion in mens's fitness, founder of a leading chain of gyms (Cith Athletic) and was one of the very first official fitness social media influencers.

He has been Spencer Matthew's personal trainer for over 10 years and helped Spencer on his recent world record breaking desert marathon event.

Shaun is an advocate for Men's Health, being an ambassador for Manual, the men's health brand.

Shaun and Steve go back 20 years from their time at university together.

Steve Roest, CEO of PocDoc speaks to Nora Cavani, CEO and co-founder of Alba Health, about the importance of the first 1000 days of a child's microbiome - from pregnancy through to the early years.

Nora is passionate that the first 1000 days dictates what health issues may occur in the future and by focusing on developing a healthy, diverse microbiome early, conditions such as allergies, eczema and potentially even chronic diseases could be prevented.

Alba Health is the only gut health business focusing on children with access to a unique longitudinal dataset.

Nora and...

Jane McLelland is a 3 time cancer survivor and advocate of a "middle path" - combining traditional proven treatments like chemotherapy and radiotherapy with previously unheralded approaches to nutrition and other areas of care.

Russell Hopson is an established leader in the global advertising industry, having led agencies in the UK and Australia. He is currently in a drug trial having been diagnosed with Stage 4 Pancreatic Cancer in April 2023. He was given between 4 and 6 months to live and 2 years later, he credits Jane's mindset with much of his positive approach to tackling his cancer.

This show...

Steve Roest speaks to the inspiring Rachel Carrell, a serial entrepreneur, Rhodes Scholar and mum of 3. Rachel is the founder and CEO of Koru Kids, one of the largest providers of nanny services in the UK and the clear market leader.

On this show, Rachel takes us through a tour of UK childcare services, why they're so fragmented and difficult to navigate for parents and why they're letting parents and kids and the industry itself down.

Koru Kids is a multi-award-winning childcare service providing part time and full time nannies across the UK.

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Steve Roest speaks to Liz Hoggard, a national journalist who writes about health and wellbeing, women's issues, arts and lifestyle.

She wrote a very popular article recently about lowering her own cholesterol without the help of statins and has a habit of experimenting on herself in the interests of journalism!

This includes following a 1970s diet, among other great stories.

Liz has written for the Daily Telegraph, The Times, The Observer, Daily Mail and Radio Times. She is the author of two books, Dangerous Woman: The Guide to Modern Life and How to...

In this episode, Steve Roest, CEO of PocDoc and host of the HealthTech Hour speaks to Lottie Whyte, the amazing CEO and founder of MyoMaster.

Lottie bootstrapped MyoMaster from day 1 with her husband (a professional rugby player) and has seen explosive growth in the last two years - including coming through Dragon's Den and putting Steven Bartlett in his place - to become the UK's fastest growing health and wellness business.

This is a great deep dive into what drives an entrepreneur on, but isn't sugar coated - Steve and Lottie get into the real...

In this episode, Steve Roest, CEO of PocDoc and host of the HealthTech Hour speaks to Shay Speakman-Brown, the Head of Market Access for the UK and Ireland at Dexcom about the revolution in diabetes care, the human stories behind it and the technology that has driven it - and what's coming next.

Dexcom were the first company in the world to invent the continuous glucose monitor and are the first to get a continuous glucose monitor regulated for over the counter purchases.

Shay is a leader in the field of technology-driven diabetes care.

Dr Sara is a practicing NHS GP who has specialised in reproductive health. Dr Sara is also resident GP on ITV’s This Morning and a TV personality, which started off on the amazing show GPs behind closed doors.

She is also a best-selling author and her first book How to Have a Baby, published earlier this year, is an empowering, unbiased guide and essential toolkit for pregnancy, labour, birth, breastfeeding and your baby’s first year.

This show is about her amazing journey, her inspirations, the stresses and strains of being a GP and insi...

Dr Hazel Wallace, aka the Food Medic is a former NHS doctor, registered associate nutritionist, personal trainer, author and founder of the platform, The Food Medic - where for the last 11 years it has been her mission to provide evidence-based nutrition and health information that is easy-to-follow and practical to implement.

She has a new book coming out next year, called Not Just a Period (available on Amazon for pre-order!).

Her follow up to the Food Medic, the Female Factor, has inspired Hazel to explore the world of women's health, specifically reproductive health, in more...

In this episode, Steve Roest, CEO of PocDoc and host of the HealthTech Hour speaks to Andrea Berchowitz, CEO and co-founder of Vira Health who have the mission of extending women's healthy lifespans, starting with the menopause.

Vira do this through their groundbreaking Stella app, which provides not only content but clinical care.

This episode is a wonderful deep dive into why digital menopause care is so important, the different types of care available, amazing advice from a top entrepreneur in healthcare and more.

In this week's show, Steve Roest speaks to Amber Vodegel, who among other things founded the world's #1 Pregnancy App, Pregnancy +.

Amber is am incredibly successful digital healthtech entrepreneur, with expertise in scaling health apps using AI and deep analytics, with a proven track record of building impactful digital health solutions.

Her latest venture, 28X, focuses on menstrual health education—an AI-powered, free-to-use, privacy-safe platform aiming to revolutionise women's health, especially for the vulnerable in our society.

She wants to disrupt the period tracking space that is dominated by major venture capital-backed corporations who sh...

Ahead of World Menopause Day on October 18th, Steve Roest, host of the HealthTech Hour and CEO of PocDoc is joined by TV presenter, writer and menopause campaigner, Linda Barker, alongside NHS England’s Menopause Lead, Bukky Ayoade.

This show is a fantastic listen for anyone going through the menopause, worried about the menopause or with any questions.

Both Linda and Bukky share their personal journeys through menopause, tackle disinformation, provide clear, accurate signposting for women in need.

There is also a robust and honest discussion about HRT and non-HRT treatment methods as we...

In this show, Steve Roest, CEO of PocDoc and host of the HealthTech Hour speaks to the inspirational and eloquent Henry Stoneley about how he and his team have built one of the best conference experiences in the world - including the science + art of creating an amazing human experience at HLTH Europe.

From not taking money from speakers to secure speaking slots to outlawing questions to scientifically laying out the conference space to foster connections, Henry and his team have massively raised the game.

Henry is part of the team that brought HLTH, Europe's...

On this week's show, Steve Roest, CEO of PocDoc speaks to Richie McGregor, who is the Head of Digital and Performance for Cumbria Health, a CQC rated outstanding social enterprise organisation delivering Primary and Urgent Care services throughout Cumbria.

Cumbria and neighbouring Northumbria are the two most remote, most rural regions in the UK and have taken a very proactive, leading position on integrating digital and remote technologies in delivering healthcare effectively - when it's over an hour to the nearest GP, the challenges faced by patients and staff are totally different to those in a city...

This week Steve Roest, CEO of PocDoc speaks to Tony Nicolaidis the Chief Commercial Officer for Origin AI, a company that invented Wi-Fi sensing technology and is revolutionising smart homes, healthcare, and home security.

This technology is incredible and Tony does a good job of talking Steve through it. OriginAI have developed a technology that can detect the micro disruptions in WiFi signal caused by anyone even breathing in a room with WiFi.

The applications for this technology are huge - from energy, security through to health and ageing.

In this episode Steve Roest, CEO of PocDoc speaks to Jamie Tomalin, Investment Manager at Triple Point Ventures, who are one of the UK's leading early funders of HealthTech and healthcare technology generally. Jamie is a deep thinker and thought leader in the HealthTech space and the wider startup scene. He has very interesting views on how healthcare systems should and could adopt technology more quickly for the greater good as well as sharing his views on the startup scene. A must for anyone founding a business, founders and ceos in the HealthTech space - and NHS clinicians who...

For the 100th episode, we have a very special guest...

Steve Roest, CEO of PocDoc speaks to Daniel Nathrath, the co-founder and CEO of Ada Health. A serial entrepreneur, Daniel founded Ada in 2011 alongside a team of doctors, scientists and industry pioneers, combining AI technology with the world’s medical knowledge to create better outcomes for patients.

Widely acknowledged as the most accurate AI digital doctor, Ada Health has been the leader in the field of clinical-grade AI as a doctor-patient support for many years.

Daniel is a visionary in the HealthTech space an...

Dr N. Tony Ahmed is one of the most senior and most experienced dentists in the NHS. He is a lifelong NHS dentist and in this episode he and Steve Roest go into the reality of the NHS dentistry crisis, why access to dentistry is a critical part of disease prevention and why it's important to "put the mouth back in the body" from a whole body health approach.

Dr Tony Ahmed is a practicing dentist and chair of the Shropshire and Staffordshire Local Dental Network which has implemented digital referrals in over 200 dental practices and sits...

In this episode Steve Roest, CEO of PocDoc and host of the HealthTech Hour speaks to Dani Martin-Herranz is the Chief Science Officer and co-founder at Hurdle. Dani is a world-expert in the field of Epigenetics, which focuses on the "software" layer within humans that controls what our genes do - and is hailed as the key to extended lifespan. Dani was a scientist who then founded a diagnostic business called Hurdle. Hurdle is driven by the need to make diagnostic technologies more actionable and accessible for preventative healthcare.

In this episode, Steve Roest, CEO of PocDoc and host of the HealthTech Hour speaks to Paul McGinness the Co-Founder and CEO of Lenus Health - focused on delivering predictive AI to transform the diagnosis and treatment of chronic conditions.

COPD, or Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, is the second highest cause of A&E visits, is a chronic condition that worsens over time. The prevalence and severity of this disease is worsening.

Paul has spent the last 20 years bootstrapping his own technology empire and now is focused on applying his amazing experience to Health...

In this show Steve Roest, CEO of PocDoc and his guest Rachael Fox, EVP of Altera Digital Health have a major discussion about the true value of a digital Electronic Patient Record and WHY it matters, or should matter to all of us. The right Electronic Patient Record can make the difference between life and death in hospitals and it is an area with real controversies between new entrants and old, incumbent legacy enterprise providers. There are also billions of pounds at stake - of UK taxpayer money!

Rachael Fox is the Executive Vice President at Altera...

In this show, Steve Roest, host and CEO of PocDoc speaks to Richard Pugmire and Joel Ratnasothy about the incredible area of Open Source software and how a battle is raging between Big Enterprise and the wider software development industry about the best way to rebuild the NHS for the future.

Open Source technology is used across our entire lives, but in health, it's seen as dangerous and too insecure - we dig into why and do some myth busting!

But why are the NHS and other massive institutions so keen on giving away their...

In this episode of the HealthTech Hour, Steve Roest speaks to two people he's known for a long time - Peter Cowley and Craig Maxwell.

Peter and Craig share the same terminal cancer diagnosis and share a similar reaction to this extremely traumatic event - relentlessly focus on how to bring positivity and real impact to other people's lives instead of shrinking back into themselves.

They both opted-in to make the very best of their situation and be a positive role model for positivity in the face of adversity for friends, families and other cancer...

On this week's show, Steve Roest, CEO of PocDoc and host of the HealthTech Hour hosts Liam Cahill - a healthcare strategist, advisor and the founder of Together Digital. Liam previously co-founded an impactful, nationally respected social enterprise supporting the NHS to improve care around medicines and prescribing.

Liam has written and spoken extensively about how innovation can thrive in complex systems, with the NHS being one of the most complex single systems in the global economy today.

Liam trains public and private sector organisations on how to do innovation and is a thought leader...

In this episode Steve Roest speaks to Ian Coyne who has spearheaded a major piece of groundbreaking research that compares the personality make-up of HealthTech founders to the personalities of other CEOs and founders in other industries to determine what makes them different and why they've dedicated themselves to scaling innovation in a very hard sector.

Full disclosure: Steve Roest our host also took part in this study with interesting results!

Steve and Ian then go on to discuss the importance of getting the right blend of personalities together at the right time and the...

In this episode Steve Roest, CEO of PocDoc speaks to Sean Ruane, Founder and CEO of Mind Data, an innovative mental wellbeing platform characterised by its data-driven approach, offering real-time mental health insights within universities and organisations.

Steve and Sean get really into the emotional journey of personal mental health crisis that brought Sean to his realisation that his purpose in life was to save 1 million people from ending up in the same situation he had.

Sean's belief is that his Purpose should be Greater than and of the External Circumstances that he goes through.<...

This week Steve Roest, CEO of PocDoc (pocdoc.co) speaks to Steve Sawyer, Managing Director of The Access Group's Health, Support, and Care division, one of the largest providers of digital care to the NHS.

In this episode, Steve and Steve (!) get into social prescribing, mental health, digital tech that helps vulnerable people and try to unpick the conundrum which is finding the truth about the state of the NHS at the moment vs the picture portrayed in the media.

This week Steve Roest, CEO of PocDoc speaks to Dr Adam Abbs. Adam is a GP, author, educator and digital health expert, currently Medical Lead at Hurdle.bio with a focus on disruptive models in remote healthcare. Adam was at the forefront of Virtual GP appointments and has put a huge amount of thought into how the NHS and other healthcare systems can embrace and implement technology to improve patient health and save money. Previously he was clinical director at Medicspot and curator of BMJ remote learning guides.

In this show, the final live show before Christmas...

On this week's show, Steve Roest, CEO of PocDoc speaks to Raj Kohli and Pete Huang who started Healthtech-1 to automate repetitive processes for healthcare systems. As an example, to bring this to life - it is very common that all patient registrations are done manually. Each registration has up to 100 pieces of discrete information which are manually entered into the GP records. Each year, in University towns, GP surgeries regularly register 5,000+ new patients, meaning each GP surgery is using valuable, time stretched labour to manually enter 500,000 pieces of information, manually, instead of helping patients.

The guys...

This week, Carmelo Insalaca is Steve Roest's guest on the show. Carmelo is CEO and founder of Rapid Health, one of the next generation of digital front door services that have followed in the wake of Babylon Health. Steve and Carmelo get straight into the recent damning exposee of Babylon and dig into how Rapid Health has achieved a major step up in efficiency for GPs while maintaining clinical standards - and avoiding the pitfalls that caught up with other services.

Jess McCreadie, Principal Investor at Octopus Ventures speaks to Steve Roest, CEO of PocDoc on this week's HealthTech Hour.

Jess has spent her career helping businesses finance themselves, grow, scale and is hugely passionate about Venture Capital as a force for good.

In this episode, Jess and Steve cover a huge amount of ground including:

- Jess' journey through male-dominated industries, driven by her passion for finance and watching companies grow - and her views on diversity of gender and of background in VC/finance/startup culture

- The impact of...

Chris Bischoff is Managing Director at General Catalyst and speaks to Steve Roest, CEO of PocDoc. General Catalyst is the leading investor in early and growth stage healthcare businesses across the UK, US and Europe. Chris has incredible experience across the healthcare sector and takes Steve through his thesis on investing, his investments in Babylon and Livongo, the pros and cons of Value Based Care and what qualities he thinks founders need to thrive in healthcare.

Sophie Park, MD of Bayer G4A Investments & Partnerships speaks to Steve Roest, CEO of PocDoc in today's show. Sophie is one of the leading voices for integrating digital health technology into public and private healthcare systems. In addition to her role at Bayer, Sophie has advised 2 White House administrations and her and Steve really get into some heated debate about the role of Pharma in being a force for good and how technology can be accelerated to help make people healthier.

What are the main mindset you need to have a chance to succeed as an entrepreneur, or even in a fast-paced, high growth environment? Steve Roest asks Brian Plackis Cheng on this week's HealthTech Hour. For the full show, download it - Ep83!

Brian Plackis Cheng is CEO of OpenRad and speaks today to Steve Roest, CEO of PocDoc and host of the HealthTech Hour. OpenRad is a company combined of two cutting edge imaging businesses that now brings radiology reporting services to the cloud, enabling all medical imaging interpretation to happen remotely - cutting backlog, enabling radiologists to do more and getting people treated more quickly.

On this show, Steve Roest, CEO of PocDoc speaks to Franceska Wuttke about Nen's mission to make tools, games and strategies based on CBT therapy for children with cancer, to learn how to manage their pain. Managing pain is a short term issue but also as Franceska explains, the long term consequences of childhood pain can be devastating, including major mental health issues and addiction in later life.

A very emotional subject with a hugely passionate guest - have a listen!

Will West is CEO of CellCentric speaks to Steve Roest, CEO of PocDoc this week. Will and CellCentric are using next generation epigenetic data to create cancer drugs that can stop certain types of cancer at a genetic level. Epigenetics is a hugely fascinating and slight mind-bending area of scientific development!

Dr Claudia Pastides is Director of Medical Accuracy at Flo Health and speaks to Steve Roest, CEO of PocDoc in this week's show. Flo aims to build a better future for female health and supports women during their entire reproductive life cycle and has over 48 million active users a month - an incredible number of women - across the entire world. Flo covers not just menstrual tracking, but also provides honest, accurate information about sex, reproductive health and other issues that are often considered taboo. Not just for adults, over 50% of all UK under 18s use Flo.

Liis Narusk from Certific speaks to Steve Roest CEO of PocDoc. Liis is one of the most extensive thinkers in Europe at this moment on the evolution of technology within the GP system, but focused with Certific outside the UK - yes, there is a world outside the UK! Liis co-founded Certific with Taavet Hinrikus, the founder of Wise and Dr Jack Kreindler, doctor, thinker and explorer. In this show, they cover the impact of AI on healthcare, how the regulations are going to struggle with AI, why patients across Europe are still not using digital health records and...

Chris Yates is the CEO and founder of Abingdon Health and he spoke to Steve Roest, CEO of PocDoc this week. Abingdon Health is one of the leading UK "born and bred" life science companies and diagnostic companies. Chris has successfully IPO'd two companies including Abingdon and they are currently trading on AIM under #Abdx

Chris Yates, CEO and founder of Abingdon Health spoke to Steve Roest, CEO of PocDoc in this week's show. Chris has successfully IPO'd 2 diagnostics companies and Abingdon Health is one of the leading lights of the UK's thriving life science and diagnostics industry. One of the major covid test manufacturers, Chris' experience in this sector is vast and his success as a multi-IPO CEO is valuable to any entrepreneurs. Chris is a huge believer in the value of lateral flow testing as a major tool in the fight for better health for all, globally.

Hamish Grierson is widely known as one of the smartest and nicest people in UK healthtech and is the founder of Thriva, a leader in at home diagnostic testing. In this show, he and Steve clearly share a lot of the same values and missions between Thriva and PocDoc, it's a masterclass in self managed healthcare!

In this super short wisdom bomb, Steve Roest, CEO of PocDoc asks Melanie for her advice to any entrepreneurs, but specifically scientific entrepreneurs. Her advice is amazing! Get after it! Monday morning here we come!

This is a clip from the full show this week between Dr Melanie Lee and Steve Roest. Melanie is the CEO of LifeArc who have decided to give away £1.3bn in funding to finding diagnostics, treatments and cures for motor neurone disease. In this clip, she explains how important patient and patient family power has been in prioritising the disease.

Steve Roest, CEO of PocDoc speaks to Dr Melanie Lee, CEO of the incredible charity LifeArc which is aiming to donate £1,3bn of funding by 2030 into diagnosis, treatment and cures for motor neurone disease, cystic fibrosis and tuberculosis among other things. Melanie is a fantastic guest with incredible insight into scientific research and how to take research and make it a reality - success for patients and the NHS. She also has some valuable advice for scientists and entrepreneurs as to how to keep going when times are tough.

Sebastian Anastassiou is an ex medic and successful investor at Nina Capital. If you want advice about your startup, listen up! He loves synthetic data, AI and healthtech that underpins healthcare systems. He and Steve Roest talk about Silicon Valley Bank, what entrepreneurs need to survive in the next 2 years and the next generation of exciting healthtech companies...including PocDoc!

In this clip from this week's HealthTech Hour, Dame Jessica Ennis Hill explains to Steve Roest, CEO of PocDoc, that during her athletic career, even surrounded by the highest quality team, there was no discussion nor support around hormone related issues for female athletes. Partly due to the male dominated coaching teams, but many other factors played a role.

Dame Jessica Ennis-Hill is one of the UK's leading sporting heroes and has dedicated her life after her sporting career to women's health, educating women about their hormone levels and what that means for their overall health. An advocate of body-literacy, she founded Jennis, a women's health platform to allow women to monitor their hormone levels more accurately. Dr Michelle Tempest is an advisor and investor in FemTech businesses, including Jennis and is an expert on technology focused on women's health.

This clip comes from the full interview with Matt Hancock (ep58) and in it, he discloses that he was responsible for stopping Donald Trump and the EU from stealing the UK vaccine's supply. Fiery claims and in light of recent disclosures in the UK media, very interesting to hear!

Female tech founder Lina Chan explains where to find menopause advice on the highstreet (clue: Holland & Barrett) and how Davina McCall broke through the menopause taboo.

Marcel is CEO of Cyted, a unique AI-driven cancer diagnostics company that works with the NHS across the UK diagnosing more people with esophageal cancer, one of the most dangerous forms of cancer.

Sara leads the NHS DigitalHealth.London accelerator, helping introduce and scale digital innovation in the NHS. Sara's background is a 30 year career as a nurse in the NHS.

Ali Parsa is the charismatic, inspirational founder of Babylon Health, one of the most successful digital health companies ever founded. In this clip from the full show with Steve Roest, Ali talks about the one skill every founder needs to survive - ALWAYS BACK YOURSELF. Enjoy!

Lina Zakarauskaite is a leading VC investor and she explains why as the world is diverse, so too does the industry funding the companies to solve the world's problems need to reflect that diversity

Extract from the full show with Lina Zakarauskaite, lead investor at a major venture capital fund in the UK called Stride VC. In this clip, she and Steve Roest discuss how scientific research has been massively undermined by junk research but blockchain and decentralisation could rescue it from oblivion.

Lina Zakarauskaite is principal investor at Stride.VC, a leading early-stage investment fund in the UK, who invest in health technology start ups. If you want to hear about how to get funding in the current tough climate, why the NHS is amazing but also very tough, how blockchain can solve the crisis in academic research and why VCs can do better in terms of diversity and female representation - listen here!

Jason C. Foster is the CEO of Ori BioTech, one of the leading companies focused on helping the scale up of cell and gene therapies that can cure cancer - but currently are too expensive to distribute to people in need.

He also serves as a Non-Executive Director for multiple healthtech startups.

Steve and Jason speak about a range of issues, including what Jason looks for in healthtech startups he invests in, advice for founders and thoughts on the NHS.

Lina Chan is the CEO of Parla Health, recently acquired by Holland & Barrett one of the leading high street health retailers in the UK. Lina is an expert on women's reproductive health and in this episode Lina explains how Parla helps support physical and mental wellbeing for women across all stages - preconception, conception, fertility issues, menopause, PCOS, endometriosis and more.

Christoph focuses on investments in life sciences and digital health. He spent 3 years at Bain and Company, then joined 3i in their Healthcare Venture Capital, moving on to General Electric's healthcare division…

Lord James Bethell, former Parliamentary Undersecretary of State at the Dept of Health and Social Care and current member of the House of Lords led the government’s test and trace programme and is a health campaigner

Amanda Lambert is Chief Customer Officer for Nuffield Health, the UK’s largest healthcare charity with a purpose to build a healthier nation

Lucius Cary raised his first science and technology seed fund in 1983, after founding and exiting two successful businesses. He has been investing in startups ever since…

Richard Phillips, Head of Strategy at the Association of British Health Technology, the UK's leading HealthTech industry body

Dr. Ahmed Shahrabani is a NHS clinician, Forbes 30U30 honouree and Co-Founder of Locum’s Nest. Together with his Co-Founder, Nick they embarked on a mission to solve the NHS staffing crisis…

Dr Hakim Yadi OBE is a Co-Founder and chief executive of Closed Loop Medicine, a global leader in the development of single prescription drug to optimise dosing on an individual level…

Dom Raban, CEO and Co-founder of Xploro a digital therapeutics platform using augmented reality and games to reduce anxiety for young patients in hospital

Darren Evans has provided technical solutions to Health and Social care for over twenty years, leading the team that rolled out some of the early ‘joined up’ social prescribing projects now widely adopted.

Dr Rachael Grimaldi is a senior anaesthetic registrar at Great Ormond Street Hospital… and is Co-Founder and CEO of CardMedic.

Steve welcomes Christiane Gross, the International Business Development Lead at Barcelona-based Femtech startup LactApp

Steve welcomes Mary Fenske CEO and inventor of Posture Wings, the industry-disrupting bra that comfortably supports your breasts, spine, neck and shoulders

Dom Raban, CEO and Co-founder of Xploro a digital therapeutics platform using augmented reality and games to reduce anxiety for young patients in hospital

Steve interviews former Health Secretary, Matt Hancock

Neil Griffiths is a veteran NHS hospital executive, bringing more than 20 years of public and private sector experience to TeleTracking - leading Virtual Ward provider to NHS

Neil Griffiths is a seasoned healthcare executive, bringing more than 20 years of public and private sector experience to TeleTracking’s operations in his role as Managing Director

Steve welcomes Dr Scott Murray, CEO and Founder of Venturi Cardiology, next generation heart health clinic

Steve welcomes Tess Cosad, CEO and Co-Founder of Bea Fertility, the startup increasing access to its affordable and effective insemination-at-home service

Jacob Beckley is the founder of CURE Token… dedicated to using the power of decentralised finance to help rid the planet of dreadful diseases like cancer

George Goldsmith, Chairman, CEO and Cofounder of COMPASS Pathways, leaders in using psychedelics, magic mushrooms and LSD related compounds to treat depression and anxiety

George Goldsmith, Chairman, CEO and Cofounder of COMPASS Pathways, a mental health care company accelerating patient access to evidence-based innovation in mental health

Steve chats with Elizabeth Gazda, CEO of Embr Labs, owners of a wearable that prevents hot flushes from menopause and prostate cancer treatment

George Goldsmith, Chairman, CEO and Cofounder of COMPASS Pathways, a mental health care company accelerating patient access to evidence-based innovation in mental health