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Interview: Phil Frame, NorthEdge

NorthEdge is a regionally focussed UK PE firm, headquartered in Manchester and with presence across the North and Midlands. It invests in lower mid-market companies across the healthcare, technology and business services sectors, and currently has £900m of assets under management.  In an interview with HBI, Phil Frame, Partner and Healthcare Investment Lead at NorthEdge, discussed some of the areas of healthcare innovation the firm is currently most excited about, and the abundant opportunity in the UK regions.

Interview: Dr Oliver Harrison, Koa Health

Dr Oliver Harrison is the founder and chief executive of Koa Health, a UK-headquartered digital mental health company. He spoke to us about what makes Koa Health different and about the company’s new employer-funded mental health platform which he describes as the culmination of the work the company has been doing to date.

Bioprinting could revolutionise medicine — an interview with Vidmantas Sakalys, CEO of Vital3D Technologies

Bioprinting is an innovative 3D printing technology that can create artificial organic structures such as tissues and organs. The technology has the potential to revolutionise healthcare because the ‘printed’ structures, despite being man-made, are composed of real living cells.

Remote patient monitoring can cut chronic disease care costs by 40% — an interview with Lasse Rousi, Medixine 

Over the coming years and decades an increasing amount of care will be delivered to patients in their homes. New devices and wearables that can collect health data from people whilst they’re at home and healthcare’s digitalisation trend are opening up new possibilities, both for prevention and for providing better and more efficient care to those with chronic conditions. 

Interview: Dom Longford, Cog ADHD

Cog ADHD is a digital platform for people with ADHD. The company officially launched its new app on iOS and Android earlier this month. Dom Longford, the company’s founder, explained to HBI how the platform's holistic approach to supporting people with ADHD can help fill the gaps left by failing public mental health systems.

Investors eye wellness testing in veterinary medicine — Interview with Eve Hanks, CEO of MI:RNA Diagnostics

  The UK, Germany, and France lead in veterinary diagnostics, while southern Europe lags According to UK’s online pet marketplace Pets4Homes, demand for puppies for sale rose by 104% at the peak of the lockdown in May 2020. S&P Global notes animal diagnostics is now a growing area.  MI:RNA Diagnostics, a Scottish veterinary diagnostics company, […]

Interview: Duncan Leggat, Cymphony

Cymphony is a UK company that provides customer communications solutions such as telephone answering and appointment booking to private healthcare providers. In an interview with HBI, Duncan Leggat, Cymphony’s Finance Director, argued that high quality, personalised customer service is an essential part of a good healthcare service, and that, for providers focused on the premium/private-pay part of the market, the good old fashioned telephone is generally the most effective tool for achieving this.

Transform’s journey from cosmetic surgery to weight loss services company — an interview with CEO Dr. Sayani Sainudeen

UK cosmetic surgery company Transform Healthcare has gone through quite a journey in the past 15 years. In an interview with HBI, Dr. Sayani Sainudeen, Transform's new CEO, explained how the company is moving increasingly into holistic weight loss services, covering a broad range of treatments, from new injectable weight loss drugs, to surgery, to talking therapy.

Four new growth avenues for healthcare providers — an interview with McKinsey

We sat down with Michael Morley, Partner at consulting firm McKinsey, at our annual conference last month, to discuss four new sources of revenue growth that healthcare providers are exploring.

Moving the dial on sustainability — an interview with Ambika Jindal of ING

With HBI 2024 now under a week away, we spoke with Ambika Jindal, Group Head of Sustainability Integration & Implementation at ING, about the bank’s sustainability journey and the importance of sustainability generally in the healthcare sector.

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