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Katie Strick

‘We left the NHS — now we want to save it’: meet the doctorpreneurs leading the health-tech boom

The former medics whose brain app is now at number two on the App Store. The longtime neurosurgeon using tech to automate telephone consultations. The ex-A&E doctor using AI to get NHS staff into work 16 times faster than they were previously.

As junior doctors gear up for their third round of strikes in a dispute over pay, these are just some of the medics working to save the profession they felt forced to leave by building their own healthtech platforms instead.

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