Clinical Entrepreneur Programme
Showcasing the published work of the NHS clinical entrepreneurs
Transforming healthcare through innovation
Since 2016, the NHS clinical entrepreneur programme (NHS CEP) has supported over 1800 NHS staff in pursuing innovations to improve patient outcomes.
BMJ Group and its journal BMJ Innovations are proud to partner with the NHS CEP. This special collection of papers celebrates the published work of the NHS clinical entrepreneurs. It forms a growing legacy of the impact that the programme and clinical entrepreneurs have delivered for patients and the NHS.
Professor Stephen Powis
This editorial explores how innovation helped tackle urgent pandemic challenges, driving collaboration across disciplines and inspiring NHS-wide transformation. It focuses on the NHS clinical entrepreneur programme, a key initiative that empowers staff to drive change, develop new skills, and embed successful innovation into everyday care to meet today’s evolving healthcare needs.
Tamsin Holland Brown, Polly Sullivan, Lucy Dentice, Tony Young
This discussion pre-print reflects on ten years of the NHS Clinical Entrepreneur Programme, showing how it has grown into a major workforce-development route for NHS staff. It argues that the programme builds leadership, confidence, belonging and innovation capability, helping retain talent while connecting frontline ideas to testing, adoption and scale.
BMJ Group publications by NHS clinical entrepreneurs
A selection of NHS Clinical Entrepreneur Programme participants have published research, commentary, or responses across BMJ Group journals. These publications show how clinical innovation is being supported by peer reviewed evidence and debate.
Maria-Sofia Kalogeropoulou, Helen Couch, Ajay Thankamony, Kathy Beardsall
Neonatal hyperinsulinism: a retrospective study of presentation and management in a tertiary neonatal intensive care unit in the UK, ADC Fetal & Neonatal Edition
Nick Gompertz
Why accuracy statements for pulse oximeters may be misleading, Rapid response in The BMJ
Joseph B John, Benjamin Holdsworth, Na’el Clarke, Anna Vere, Kazer Lynda, Andrew Walker, Silifat Yusuf, Valerie Yick, Tracey Doolan, Peter Harvey, Christopher Ball, Claire Butler, Nicola Lowe, Victoria Welsh, Andrew Mayne, Steve Swann, Robert Porter, Nick Burns-Cox
Clean pulp versus sterile plastic for mid-stream urine collection: a paired equivalence study comparing the microbiological performance of a novel low carbon collection device with the standard of care, BMJ Open
Helen James, Nutriri
Rapid response, The BMJ
Calandra Feather, Nicholas Appelbaum, Ara Darzi, Bryony Dean Franklin
Indication documentation and indication-based prescribing within electronic prescribing systems: a systematic review and narrative synthesis, BMJ Quality & Safety
Christopher Feather, James Clarke, Nick Appelbaum, Ara Darzi, Bryony Dean Franklin
Comparing safety, performance and user perceptions of a patient-specific indication-based prescribing tool with current practice, BMJ Quality & Safety
Nick Appelbaum, James Clarke, Christopher Feather, Bryony Dean Franklin, Rakesh Sinha, Patrick Pratt, Ian Maconochie, Ara Darzi
Medication errors during simulated paediatric resuscitations, BMJ Open
Christopher Feather, Nick Appelbaum, Joseph Le Geyt, Sandeep Jheeta, Ian Maconochie, Bryony Dean Franklin
Evaluating the impact of an indication-based, patient-specific prescribing tool on prescribing errors in paediatrics, BMJ Paediatrics Open
Nick Appelbaum, Carlos Rodriguez-Gonzalvez, James Clarke
Ideal body weight in the precision era, Archives of Disease in Childhood
Harry Potter’s extendable ear: reaching deaf children, Archives of Disease in Childhood
Delilah O’Riordan, Tamsin Mary Holland Brown
Radiology’s role in humanising mortality, The BMJ
Susan Shelmerdine, Natasha Davendralingam
Transforming healthcare logistics and evaluating current use cases of UAVs (drones) as a method of transportation in healthcare to generate recommendations for the NHS to use drone technology at scale, BMJ Innovations
Christopher Tejun Law, Catharina Moenig, Hammad Jeilani, Milad Jeilani, Tony Young
Bone conduction hearing kit for children with glue ear, BMJ Innovations
Tamsin Mary Holland Brown, Isobel Fitzgerald O’Connor, Jessica Bewick, Colin Morley
Massive open online course for type 2 diabetes self-management: adapting education in the COVID-19 era, BMJ Innovations
Scott C Mackenzie, Kirsten M Cumming, David Garrell, Doogie Brodie, Lyn Wilson, Salma Mehar, Scott G Cunningham, Alex Bickerton, Deborah J Wake
Integration of a personalised mobile health (mHealth) application into the care of patients with brain tumours: proof-of-concept study, BMJ Surgery, Interventions, & Health Technologies
Andrew Gvozdanovic, Felix Jozsa, Naomi Fersht, Patrick James Grover, Georgina Kirby, Neil Kitchen, Riccardo Mangiapelo, Andrew McEvoy, Anna Miserocchi, Rayna Patel, Lewis Thorne, Norman Williams, Michael Kosmin, Hani J Marcus
Sharing knowledge, saving time: an online toolbox to aid junior doctors, BMJ Open Quality
James Houston, William Barker, Jonathan Clarke, Ed Mew
Digital health coaching to improve patient preparedness for elective lower limb arthroplasty, BMJ Open Quality
Nicola Powley, Garry A Tew, James Durrand, Esther Carr, Alexander Nesbitt, Rhiannon Hackett, Joanne Gray, Stephen McCarthy, Matthew Beatty, Robbie Huddleston, Gerard Danjoux
Improving the quality of trauma meetings by implementation of a modern trauma management platform, BMJ Open Quality
Benjamin Michael Sephton, Olivia Katherine Vernon, Kathryn Kimber, Michael Shenouda, Piyush Mahapatra
Learning from excellence in healthcare: a new approach to incident reporting, Archives of Disease in Childhood
Nicola Kelly, Simon Blake, Adrian Plunkett
Novel web application for self-assessment of distance visual acuity to support remote consultation: a real-world validation study in children, BMJ Open Ophthalmology
Louise Allen, Arun James Thirunavukarasu, Simon Podgorski, Deborah Mullinger
Feasibility of an artificial intelligence phone call for postoperative care following cataract surgery in a diverse population: two phase prospective study protocol, BMJ Open Ophthalmology
Amin Hatamnejad, Aisling Higham, Sohel Somani, Eric S Tam, Ernest Lim, Sarah Khavandi, Nick de Pennington, Hannah H Chiu
‘There were more wires than him’: the potential for wireless patient monitoring in neonatal intensive care, BMJ Innovations
Oliver Bonner, Kathryn Beardsall, Nathan Crilly, Joan Lasenby
Ten years of Geeky Medics, Student BMJ
Lewis Potter
Presenting clinical features on darker skin: five minutes with . . . Malone Mukwende, The BMJ
Malone Mukwende
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Laura Tan, Medical doctor, NHS clinical entrepreneur, and software developer
