NHS chief executive Simon Stevens and UK health secretary Jeremy Hunt don't often get the chance to play to a home crowd – and this was a sizeable gig too: with 5,000 at Manchester Central, it was the biggest of the NHS's now annual Innovation Expos, Hunt told delegates.
And Stevens clearly knows how to work the audience, telling them it was good to be hanging out with the "can-do" crowd. He used the occasion to whip up fervor...
But he also had positive messages for the UK medtech and for the digital agenda sector, which, along with the transformation of care delivery via the 44 Sustainability and Transformation...