Innovation Breakfast: Dr Tamsin Holland-Brown
Hear Glue Ear: From idea to international product
- When: 8.30-9.30am, 8th October 2024
- Where: Seminar Room 1, School of Clinical Medicine, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Hills Rd, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, GB, CB2 0SP
- Pastries and refreshments provided
Dr Tamsin Holland-Brown is an NHS paediatrician and award-winning health entrepreneur. She has been on the NHS England Clinical Entrepreneur Programme and was awarded a British Empire Medal in 2021.
With over 20 years of experience in the field of childhood hearing loss, Tamsin has seen first hand the impact that it can have on young peoples speech and language development, education and social interactions, she came up with a solution: Hear Glue Ear.
However, she still needed to understand and explain how her innovation fitted into patient pathways, understand how it provided value to health providers and turn her venture into a viable business. Tamsin will tell her story, share what she learned and answer any questions which might help those starting out their innovation journey.
Join us to learn how Tamsin turned her idea into reality and put it into clinical practice and hear her tips on getting the right support and navigating health innovation.
Read more about Hear Glue Ear
About Hear Glue Ear
Hear Glue Ear is an affordable headset and app solution for the most common type of hearing loss in childhood: glue ear. Affordable headphones using bone conduction technology can help children to hear quieter speech, particularly where background noise makes listening more challenging.
The Hear Glue Ear app provides home support for a family and their child by providing trusted information, as well as speech, language and listening activities to support a child’s development. In some instances children can be supported while their glue ear spontaneously resolves reducing the need for grommet operations.
The app progressed to become a class 1 medical device, with a CE Mark and was reviewed by ORCHA, the world-leading health app evaluators, and was awarded a score of 82%.
During the covid pandemic the innovative kit was able to be posted to patients to use remotely while services were reduced.
Research has shown that the headsets allow children to hear more easily and the Hear Glue Ear app is an acceptable management solution to the majority of children and their parents.
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