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.
- Update frequency
- every 32 days
- Average duration
- 49 minutes
- Episodes
- 11
- Years Active
- 2024 - 2025
Amber Vodegel: Designing for 150m global users
The way we design health apps is shaping who stays healthy and who gets left behind.
In this conversation, Amber Vodegel, founder of the world’s largest pregnancy app, Pregnancy Plus, and now CEO of 2…
Rachel Hope: Designing for the NHS shift to digital and prevention
What if the word "solution" is generating more problems than it solves? In this revealing conversation, Rachel Hope, Director of Digital Prevention Services for the NHS, challenges our fundamental th…
Dr Malte Gerhold: What does it really take to deliver transformation?
Transformation is pervasive but we rarely discuss implementation - the secret sauce of successful change.
In this episode, we explore one of the most persistent challenges: how to turn promising ideas…
Charlotte Newman: Lean tech transforming respite for 35k carers
At some point in your life, the chances are that you'll either become a carer or be cared for. For Charlotte Newman, this reality became the foundation for groundbreaking social innovation.
With 5.7 m…
Prof. Rachel Dunscombe: Your data could save lives
Imagine passing your health data down like a family heirloom.
Not just a list of conditions, but a rich personal history — something that could help your children and grandchildren live longer, health…
Dr. Katharine Halliday: Collaboration, leadership, AI and clinical judgment
Dr Katharine Halliday, President of the Royal College of Radiologists and a leading voice in UK radiology, joins host Sam Menter to discuss how collaboration, authentic leadership, and ground-up inno…
Dr. Jonathan Gregory: Part 2, AI and groundbreaking research
In this two part episode, we talk to Dr. Jonathan Gregory, a former NHS cancer surgeon turned healthcare innovator, to explore the intersection of data, digital tools, AI, and patient-centred design …
Dr. Jonathan Gregory: Part 1, transforming cancer pathways
In this two part episode, we talk to Dr. Jonathan Gregory, a former NHS cancer surgeon turned healthcare innovator, to explore the intersection of data, digital tools, AI, and patient-centred design …
Dr. Videha Sharma: designing for prevention through genetic testing
Dr. Videha Sharma—NHS doctor, clinical innovation lead at the University of Manchester, and co-founder of Fava Health—joins host, Sam Menter from Healthia®, to explore how prevention-focused care, hu…
Rochelle Gold: NHS user research, AI, collaboration and vampires
Rochelle Gold—Head of User Research and User-Centred Design at NHS England—joins host, Sam Menter from Healthia®, to explore the challenge of making digital services more human.
They discuss how actio…
Dr. Lia Ali: the intersection of design and healthcare
Dr. Lia Ali—consultant psychiatrist and clinical advisor at NHS England’s Transformation Directorate—joins host, Sam Menter from Healthia®, to explore the intersection of healthcare, human-centered d…