Starting Up the Right Way

NHS Clinical Entrepreneurs

Business Strategy, Skills Development, Operations, Funding

Approach

Impact

Revolutionising patient safety and infection risk from within the clinical environment requires support, guidance and tenacity.

The healthcare industry is rife with great ideas to improve efficiency, patient safety and save money. However, the translational gap from understand the problem and conceiving a solution, into a commercial venture is a difficult journey with many pitfalls.

A clinical entrepreneur can be a lonely place, balancing current roles with the ambition of revolutionising part of the healthcare industry. It can leave little time to upskill in the attributes required for business and reflect on the strategic direction of the innovation. We have, and continue to support clinical entrepreneurs in their ventures. We provide mentoring and non-executive services to advise on matters across the lifecycle of the startup.

Mentoring and coaching of entrepreneurs and founders:

• Innovation pathways

• Business strategy and planning

• Financial modelling

• Company governance and policies

• Branding and marketing

• Intellectual Property protection

• Gaining investment and funding

• Commercial management and partnerships

• Founder skills development

Through our mentoring and coaching these budding entrepreneurs have created amazing business opportunities, protected IP and secured funding. They have secured contracts and established partnerships. In tandem, founders have developed their skills and understanding of the business world through our mentoring, establishing technology-focussed businesses in areas such as infection control, digital identity, dermatology and dentistry.