by Kate Pym | Mar 20, 2018 | Blog, Business, NHS
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Have you contacted your Academic Health Science Network (AHSN)? When working with a client, who has an innovation in healthcare, one of my first questions is “Have you contacted your local AHSN?” and if they are trialling...
by Kate Pym | Feb 9, 2018 | Business, Business development, None
Is your product an ugly baby? You’ve been working in your laboratory/office/workshop/shed/garage for years and you believe that the baby you have created is beautiful. What you see is: You think everyone will want your baby. The NHS will want to purchase your product,...
by Kate Pym | Sep 20, 2017 | Blog, Business
A Personal History of Filling the Deficits and Seeking Diagnosis Supporting a friend or family member who has declining cognitive function is hard for anyone. To begin with everyone has their own quirks, and occasional odd behaviours which can be seen as a character...
by Kate Pym | Jul 17, 2017 | Blog, Business
After a long career in sales I have had many conversations about the reasons for my success, many underpinned by an assumption from the other party that there is something a bit shady and dishonest about selling into healthcare. There is an assumption that people who...
by Kate Pym | Nov 16, 2016 | Blog, Business, Business development, Consultancy
Oh my goodness (as we say to the grandchildren), back to work after a small break! Over the break it took 2 weeks to alter my body clock, lie in bed late and change my eating habits. If sugar, cream, or preferably both, were not involved in the making of a dish, I...
by Kate Pym | Nov 15, 2016 | Blog, Business, NHS, Social Care
We all know that the NHS is a huge, complex, unwieldy organisation, and if we were to design a social healthcare system from scratch today, it would not look like the modern NHS. We would not have to take into account embedded working practices, expensive,...
