by Kate Pym | Oct 21, 2021 | Blog, Healthcare, NHS, None
Today I have been reading Tweets and newspaper articles accusing GPs of hiding behind telephone appointments and failing to meet the needs of their patients, particularly the elderly and frail. It hasn’t taken long for the national press to change from...
by Kate Pym | Oct 5, 2021 | Blog, Business, Commercial, Consultancy, Healthcare
One reason for writing this is that I am often asked what I do for a living, and if my husband doesn’t jump in first to mansplain my work (yes, seriously he does), I will usually tell people that I help companies and innovators get new products to market in UK health...
by Kate Pym | Sep 6, 2021 | Business, Business development, Commercial, Healthcare
I have been working with Business Lincolnshire as a provider of Lincolnshire Peer Networks since 2020 and there has been a noticeable challenge across all industries which we discussed at our last providers’ meeting – the shortage of workers, across all industries....
by Kate Pym | Jan 9, 2020 | Blog, Dementia, Healthcare, NHS, Social Care
This blog is very personal and has taken me some time to get up the courage to write it. Those who have read my previous blogs will know that myself and my brother have been supporting our mother through an initial diagnosis of Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI), then...
by Kate Pym | Sep 3, 2019 | Commercial, Consultancy, Healthcare, NHS structures, Organisation
This is the most common comment I hear from new clients, so why is this so often the case with new ideas and new businesses? By the time I am having this conversation clients have already called in the cavalry – who are you going to call, and when is the most...
by Kate Pym | Aug 20, 2019 | Blog, Healthcare, Social Care
The Guardian posted an article in June this year looking at mental healthcare, and the lack of attention paid to prevention. With only 5% of mental health research funding spent on prevention, there is surely a long way to go before we see prevention as a working...