DrDoctor Will See You Now

Hosted by market-leading NHS tech provider, DrDoctor, this podcast brings together people from within and around our National Health Service to chat all things digital transformation in the NHS.

DrDoctor Will See You Now is a business podcast hosted by DrDoctor, with 17 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

DrDoctor hosts DrDoctor Will See You Now, a business show with 17 episodes published.

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  Episode #17

  Robot Doctors, Grassy Fields: Reimagining the NHS with Tim Whittlestone

  Sep 9, 202638 min

  Tom sits down with Professor Tim Whittlestone, the new Group Chief Medical and Innovation Officer at Bristol NHS Trust and a consultant urologist of 25 years, to talk about what it really takes to redesign a health system around the patient. Tim traces his own journey from early resistance to robotic surgery through to leading system-wide transformation, arguing that up to 60% of outpatient appointments add little or no value and that data, genomics and wearable technology can shift care out of hospital buildings altogether.

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  Episode #13

  Data, Destiny and the 22nd Century NHS

  Aug 19, 202626 min

  In this latest episode with Professor Ian Abbs, we chat about what large-scale health data, agentic technology and a bit of systems thinking could do to reshape care over the next few decades. Tom & Ian explore how large healthcare datasets and agentic AI can enable dynamic outpatient services that focus clinicians’ time on high‑value care, and using natural‑language agentic interfaces to match patients to the right care at the right time. They imagine a future of precision prediction and prevention that improves healthspan, lowers costs, and narrows inequalities through better data and true culture change.

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  Episode #15

  When it Comes to Healthcare, Culture Eats Strategy for Breakfast

  Jul 30, 202629 min

  In this episode, we conclude our conversation with Umang Patel, CCIO at Microsoft. With Tom, they look at a simple observation: patients go home and Google what they've just been told, so the real question is what continuous, trustworthy support looks like once the clinic door shuts. They also chat all things AI governance, language access, the economics of value-based care, and a hard-won lesson about culture from the collapse of Babylon Health.

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  Episode #14

  Cutting the Cost Cake: Why the NHS Keeps Adding Layers It Can't Afford

  Jul 22, 202624 min

  In this latest episode with Professor Ian Abbs, formerly CEO at Guy's and St Thomas', unpacks two of healthcare's stickiest problems: why innovation so often gets bolted on rather than swapped in, and what fifty years of EPR deployments actually teach us. Together, they discuss the "cost cake" - the NHS habit of adding a new layer of spend for every new tool, rather than cutting old layers out - acknowledging free pilots make this worse and that suppliers who carry real delivery risk get better outcomes than those who hand over a product and walk away. Ian also reflects on his own experience leading two major EPR deployments: IPM in the early 2000s and Epic at Guy's and St Thomas' and King's College Hospital in the 2020s.

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  Episode #12

  1.7 Million Down to 1.2 Million: The Maths Behind Imperial's Booking Revolution

  Jul 2, 202625 min

  In this episode, we conclude our conversation with Milica Stjepanovic, Deputy Director of Operations at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, unpacking how the Trust moved from a full to a choice booking model - and what happens when you layer automation on top. Mel shares the phased rollout that took Imperial from two services to Trust-wide adoption, the cultural shift needed to make it stick, and the results: a drop from 1.7 million to 1.2 million booked appointments, with the difference coming out of unnecessary rebooking and DNAs rather than patient access.

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