Why Great Health Technologies Never Reach Patients

Every year, remarkable health technologies are developed.

✅ Many are backed by outstanding science.
✅ Many secure investment.
✅ Many demonstrate promising clinical results.

Yet only a small number become part of everyday patient care.

Why?

If you’ve ever wondered why adoption takes years, why promising innovations lose momentum, or why organisations with good intentions still struggle to create lasting change, this conversation is for you.

Join me for a live episode of Signal Before Scale Conversations with Vee Mapunde, Co-Director of the NIHR HealthTech Research Centre in Accelerated Surgical Care.

Together, we’ll explore the patterns Vee has observed from working across researchers, clinicians, innovators, industry and the NHS. Rather than focusing on one technology or one organisation, we’ll examine what repeatedly separates innovations that gain traction from those that quietly stall.

We’ll explore questions including:

• Why do so many great healthcare innovations never become routine patient care?

• What signals suggest an innovation is on the path to successful adoption?

• What do founders, researchers, clinicians and NHS organisations consistently misunderstand about one another?

• What leadership behaviours build confidence across the innovation ecosystem?

• What conversations need to happen much earlier if we want innovation to reach patients faster?

This isn’t a discussion about grants or procurement alone. It’s a conversation about the human, organisational and leadership challenges that determine whether innovation creates real impact.

Whether you’re a founder, CEO, Chair, investor, clinician, researcher or NHS leader, you’ll leave with a different perspective on what it really takes to move from innovation to adoption.

I hope you’ll join us live, bring your questions, and be part of the conversation.