Driving digital health forward: must-see talks at HETT 2025

11:10 AM – 11:50 AM | Tuesday, 7 October 2025  

Digital Maturity Forum 

Structural issues such as funding, procurement methods, policy gaps, and other issues, often make scaling innovation in health and care a difficult proposition. In this session, Rishi Das Gupta, Chief Executive of the Health Innovation Network (HIN) South London, is joined by speakers from NHS England, the Digital Care Hub, the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, and other organisations to address the problem and share how innovators might overcome structural barriers. 

1:10 PM to 1:50 PM | Tuesday, 7 October 2025  

Integrated Care Forum 

While there is an increase in growth for new tech aiming to reshape healthcare, there’s also a market of companies leaving the UK due to the NHS being difficult to navigate. In this session, Mark Edginton, HIN South London Director of Operations, joins Tony Mears, Deputy Director of Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust; Matea Deliu, GP Lead of NHS South East London ICB; and Iain O’Neal, EPR Transformation Director of NHS East Midlands, who will share their perspectives on bureaucracy across different levels and debate ways to improve the NHS market.  

2:00 PM to 2:40 PM | Tuesday, October 7, 2025  

Digitally Empowered Experience 

Patient experiences of maternity care have declined in recent years, according to the results of a Maternity Survey conducted by the CQC and the NHS Patient Survey Programme, which involved 121 NHS trusts in England. This session explores how digital tools and patient feedback can improve early risk identification, health literacy, and service design in maternity care, while addressing digital exclusion and guiding safe adoption of tech-enabled models. The panel includes voices from across women’s health, including Eddie Morris, Regional Medical Director (East England) at NHS England; Emma Crooks, Co-Chair of Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG); Accelerating FemTech alumnus Sujitha Selvarajah; and more. 

3:20 PM to 4:00 PM | Tuesday, October 7, 2025

Digitally Empowered Experience

Ambra Caruso, Head of Digital Transformation at HIN South London, moderates this session with Reena Patel, Principal Pharmacist and Senior Healthcare Strategy Consultant at RP Healthcare Consultancy; Ali Connell, Director of Digital at Our Future Health UK; Oonagh Turnbull, Head of Health and Sustainable Diets Campaigns at Tesco; and Stephen Armstrong, Head of Product – Medical at the British Heart Foundation. The panel will discuss how a prevention-first approach can reshape public engagement, whilst examining the role of the third sector and local services in embedding services at a community level. 

10.00 AM to 10:40 AM | Wednesday, October 8, 2025  

Infrastructure, Data & Cyber Security 

Katherine Church, Chair of the HETT Women’s Health Working Group, moderates this session, which looks at how inequalities manifest in clinical systems and datasets and their impact on care delivery and innovation. Speakers will share strategies to identify and mitigate systemic and algorithmic bias, improve data inclusion from underrepresented groups, and embed meaningful public involvement in digital health governance. 

10.30 AM to 11:30 AM | Wednesday, October 8, 2025 

Roundtable Area 

Tulsi Patel, Director of Product at Hertility, facilitates this open roundtable session under the Chatham House Rule, available to public sector pass holders. The discussion will explore how menstrual and menopausal health challenges affect women’s workplace wellbeing, and how leading with compassion can foster stigma-free environments. 

11:40 AM to 12:20 PM | Wednesday, 8 October 2025  

Integrated Care Forum 

How can we rethink women’s health pathways to make them adaptable and tailored to their needs? The panel explores how integrated care pathways in line with the three big shifts can support early intervention, personalised care at scale, and access for underserved communities. 

11:40 AM to 12:30 PM | Tuesday, 8 October 2025 

Workforce, Adoption and Productivity 

This session challenges the narrative that limited budgets hinder innovation, instead positioning this limitation as a catalyst for strategic focus and lean transformation. In this discussion, Amanda Begley, Director of Digital Transformation at the HIN, amongst other key speakers, will explore how to make the most of existing tools, platforms, and talent through upskilling and creative repurposing. 

12.00 PM to 1:00 PM | Wednesday, October 8, 2025 

Open Roundtable Session 

Dominique Allwood, Chief Executive of Imperial College Health Partners, chairs this open roundtable session with Anna King, Commercial Director at the HIN South London. The topic of discussion will be how to better support women in spearheading and expanding health and care innovation. Drawing on insights from the Accelerating FemTech programme, the session will outline practical steps to grow female-led ventures, foster inclusive investment, and expand women’s health solutions across the NHS and global markets. 

1:00 PM to 1:40 | Wednesday, 8 October 2025  

Integrated Care Forum 

In this session, Laura Walton, HIN Project Manager, will be joined by a panel to discuss how structural barriers can be dismantled and community-based care models reimagined to improve access to mental health solutions.