Lunchtime Innovation Seminar and Q&A with Tony Young, National Clinical Lead for Innovation
| Dates: | 22 September 2026 |
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| Times: | 13:00 - 14:00 |
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| What is it: | Seminar |
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| Organiser: | Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health |
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| Who is it for: | University staff |
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| Speaker: | Professor Tony Young |
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Join Professor Tony Young, National Clinical Lead for Innovation for a special lunchtime slot to hear and discuss how he and the NHS Innovation Service can help inspire and support you and your clinical students.
The NHS Innovation Service offers guidance for all healthcare innovators, from start-ups to established enterprises, expert connections - a free review to match you with the right specialists and organisations, practical advice at every stage from early ideas to implementation and can boost exposure of your innovation to people who are looking for solutions to NHS challenges.
Professor Tony Young is a practicing frontline NHS surgeon, Director of Medical Innovation at Anglia Ruskin University, and has founded four Med-Tech start-ups. He has also co-founded the £500m Anglia RuskinMed-Tech Campus, which will become one of the world’s largest health innovation spaces.
In 2015, Tony founded the NHS Clinical Entrepreneur Programme. This has become the world’s largest entrepreneurial workforce development programme for clinicians.
In 2016, he was appointed as the first National Clinical Lead for Innovation. He provides clinical leadership and support in delivering improved health outcomes in England and drives the uptake of proven innovations across the NHS, promotes economic growth through innovation and helps make the NHS the go-to place on the planet for medical innovation.
Speaker
Professor Tony Young
Role: National Clinical Lead for Innovation
Organisation: NHS Innovation Service
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