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 14 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

DrDoctor hosts DrDoctor Will See You Now, a business show with 14 episodes published.

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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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  Episode #11

  A Consultant, a Rare Disease, and a Mum with Gemini

  Jun 17, 202622 min

  In part two of our series with Umang Patel, CCIO at Microsoft, Tom and Umang explore what the NHS's digital future really looks like once you get past the infrastructure excuses - and who's actually driving change. Drawing on real clinical encounters, startup lessons, and a candid conversation about purpose vs profit, this episode argues that the bottleneck was never the technology. It was always the context locked inside people's heads - and whether we're brave enough to let go of it.

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