Raj Purewal, business development and partnerships director at NHS innovation specialist, Trustech, shares his insight into how three clinical psychologists – turned entrepreneurs –are making an impact on the world of autism.
Healthcare professionals from across the UK continue to come up with new ideas for products or services to help improve the NHS and provide better patient care. Most often, they juggle their day-to-day healthcare roles with the demands of starting a new business, which is no easy task.
Coming up with the idea is really only the beginning, there are many other steps that are part of the process to get the idea to market. It is these steps that very often are completely new ground for healthcare professionals, as they are for most entrepreneurs; it’s not their primary area of expertise and therefore it is easy to miss important elements of the process.
People may have the best idea that could improve patient care or indeed improve NHS practices and procedures, and yet if the right advice and guidance doesn’t materialise, it can mean that some ideas never make it to fruition.
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