Problems Worth Solving
Technology doesn’t transform services. People do.
Problems Worth Solving brings you conversations with the leaders, practitioners, and radical thinkers reshaping health, care and support services. It's hosted by Sam Menter, co-founder of Healthia (www.healthia.services).
From transformation and AI to prevention and human-centred design, each episode uncovers the ideas and experiences behind lasting change.
Guests include NHS directors, policy shapers, entrepreneurs, clinicians, and designers — all united by a drive to solve complex problems.
Listen if you would like to understand how health systems can evolve to meet today’s pressures and tomorrow’s possibilities.
Problems Worth Solving
Latest Episodes
Dr Neil Churchill OBE: What the NHS can learn from charities to unlock neighbourhood health
Dr Neil Churchill OBE is Director for People and Communities at NHS England. He has spent much of his career working across the boundary between the NHS and voluntary sector. His argument is simple: the health service depends on charities far m...
Tero Väänänen: Designing the NHS from the outside in
Tero Väänänen, Head of Design at NHS England, has spent nearly thirty years watching the same pattern repeat across finance, telecoms, and now one of the world's most complex health systems. Organisations optimise the capabilities they own. Peo...
Dr Lia Ali: The fictional binary human
At a radiology AI conference, a clinician described a simple interface choice: an agree/disagree button for feeding back on AI diagnoses. It looked clean and efficient. But it assumed something fundamentally untrue: that clinicians experience a...
