Dr Harry Thirkettle · Healthtech operator · Founder mentor · UK-trained doctor
Turning clinical insight into scalable health innovation.
I’m a healthtech operator, mentor and coach to founders, and a UK-trained doctor. I work where medicine, technology and human performance overlap: helping founders build companies that survive contact with healthcare, helping health systems get good ideas adopted, and helping the people doing that work stay sharp enough to see it through.
Director of Health & Innovation, Aire Logic · Business & Commercial Lead, NHS Clinical Entrepreneur Programme · Co-founder, MedTech Mentor · UK-trained doctor (MBChB, MRCS) · Healthtech operator across NHS, startup and enterprise settings
How I can help you
You’re building a healthtech company
Build something healthcare actually buys
You know the problem you’re solving better than anyone. I help with the part nobody teaches clinicians: who pays, what evidence unlocks the decision, and how to get from pilot to adoption.
MedTech Mentor · NHS Clinical Entrepreneur Programme · founder mentoring
You’re scaling health innovation
Get good ideas adopted, not just piloted
Your technology works. I help with strategy, evidence and the operating reality of embedding it in regulated healthcare, through advisory work, speaking and workshops.
Healthtech leadership · commercial strategy · regulated healthcare delivery
You’re doing demanding work
Perform at your best, for the long haul
Founders and operators run on energy, sleep and judgement. I write about the health and habits that protect all three, tested on myself before I recommend anything.
Energy and recovery · habits and focus · what the evidence actually supports
From clinical practice to health innovation
I started in medicine, moved into health technology, and now work across digital health leadership, founder support, clinical innovation programmes and human performance. The common thread is practical: how do we build better products, better systems and healthier people?
Selected achievements
Winning work at national scale
I have helped win and deliver major public-sector healthcare technology contracts, in regulated environments where the bar for safety and evidence is high.
Scaled healthtech operations
I have helped scale commercial and delivery capability in a healthtech consultancy through a period of significant growth.
Startup to national scale
At my mhealth I led digital health deployment and built the commercial function from scratch, taking digital therapeutics into NHS organisations.
Hundreds of founders
I have mentored clinical entrepreneurs through the NHS Clinical Entrepreneur Programme and MedTech Mentor, alongside the wider mentor team.
Selected writing
Healthtech & AI
Healthcare AI adoption is an operating problem
The models are good enough. The constraint has moved to workflows, accountability and economics.
Founder Notes
Clinical insight is not a business model
What clinical insight actually buys a founder, and the commercial questions it cannot answer.
Human performance
Five ways to get better sleep
Fix sleep and most things get easier. The levers that actually moved the needle for me.
Human performance
Your symptom self-check
A simple way to work out which lever to pull first when everything feels a bit off.
Field Notes
Occasional notes on healthtech, founders and human performance. What I am seeing at work, what I am reading, and what I have tried on myself. Low frequency, no spam, unsubscribe any time.
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For speaking, advisory and board conversations, founder support or thoughtful collaboration, get in touch.