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Mahiben Maruthappu

Mahiben Maruthappu MBE (born 1988) is a British physician, entrepreneur, academic researcher and health policy specialist. He co-founded Cera, a home healthcare company and one of the largest social care providers in the UK.[1] He was the founder and first President of the United Kingdom Medical Students' Association (UKMSA).[2] He co-founded the National Health Service (NHS) Innovation Accelerator (NIA), a program that accelerates the adoption of new healthcare technologies, and served as NHS England's Innovation Adviser. He has contributed to more than 60 research papers in peer-reviewed journals.[3][4]

Dr.
Mahiben Maruthappu
Born1988
London, England
NationalityBritish
EducationUniversity of Cambridge
University of Oxford
Harvard University
Occupation(s)Physician, entrepreneur, researcher
Years active2011 to present
Known forCo-founder, Cera, NHS Innovation Accelerator, academic research
Medical career
InstitutionsImperial College London and UCL (research and medical practice)
National Health Service (UK), Cera, UKMSA
Sub-specialtiesInnovation, technology & research in healthcare
ResearchHealth economics, public health
AwardsNew England Journal of Medicine Gold Scholar
National Cancer Research prize

Maruthappu was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2020 New Year Honours for services to Health and Social Care technology.[5] He was named in the 2015 Forbes’ 30 under 30 list.[6][7]

Early life and education

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Maruthappu was born in London in 1988. He studied preclinical medicine at Selwyn College, Cambridge, where he graduated with a triple first class,[8] and as a student ran several charities, including CONTACT and Medic to Medic. He studied clinical medicine at Green Templeton College, Oxford and in his fifth year founded the United Kingdom Medical Students' Association (UKMSA), which provided free educational resources to over 40,000 students.[2] He was also a Kennedy Scholar in Global Health at Harvard University, where he conducted research at Harvard's Center for Surgery and Public Health.[9]

Medical practice

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Maruthappu began his career as a physician at Ealing Hospital in 2013. He later practised at Chelsea & Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and then trained in Public Health.[10] In 2014, he was appointed scholar at National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, where he focused on the use of structured feedback in surgery.[8]

NHS Policy

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in 2014 Maruthappu became the first appointed Senior Fellow to the Chief Executive Officer of NHS England, Simon Stevens.[11][12]

Whilst at the NHS, Maruthappu advised on innovation, technology and prevention, and in 2015, he co-founded the NHS Innovation Accelerator (NIA), a programme aimed at spreading technologies across the health service, that also led to the development of the first NHS Innovation Tariff, a national reimbursement mechanism for medical technologies and digital health products.[13][4][14] Maruthappu has been described as the “whizzkid helping save the NHS”.[7]

He co-founded the NHS's £450 million Workplace Wellness Programme and the Diabetes Prevention Programme (DPP), which as of 2017 had been rolled out to half of the population in England.[15]  He led NHS England's contribution to the Government's Childhood Obesity Plan and originated the NHS Sugar Tax, which preceded the UK Government’s Soft Drinks Industry Levy and so-called Sugar Tax.[16]

Entrepreneurship

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After his mother fell and fractured part of her back, Maruthappu faced difficulties in arranging required home care.[17] He subsequently co-founded Cera,[18] a social care provider that uses an on-demand digital platform to match people seeking in-home assistance with professional carers, allowing families to keep updated on a patient's progress, while also using Artificial Intelligence to predict potential health deteriorations in patients.[19][20]

Under Maruthappu, within 3 years Cera reached over 6,000 employees, 20 offices, and 30,000 care visits being delivered a day, while securing over $90 million of financing, making Cera one of the largest health technology companies in Europe.[21][22]

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Maruthappu is an associate Board Member of Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, one of the largest NHS Trusts in the country, with £GBP 1.2 billion turnover, and a Board Member of Skills for Care, the national body for the UK’s 1.5 million care workforce.[23][24] He is also a member of the advisory board for HealthTechDigital[25][26] He was a Founding Board Member of Digital Health London.[27]

He writes for The Guardian and Forbes, and has lectured undergraduate students at Cambridge University since the age of 20.[28][29][30]

Research and selected publications

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Maruthappu’s research focuses on public health, innovation and health economics.

He subsequently partook in the ‘landmark’ 2018 study demonstrating that health & social care funding constraints in England were linked to 120,000 excess deaths; a so called ‘mortality gap’.[31][32] The study called for over £20 billion of additional investment into the health and care system.[33][34]

Bibliography

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  • Maruthappu M. Sugandh K. Medical School: The Applicant’s Guide, Doctors Academy Ltd., 2013 and 2010, ISBN 9380573278
  • Maruthappu M. Sugandh K. Medical School: The Undergraduate’s Guide Doctors Academy Ltd., 2013 ISBN 9380573286

Recognition and acknowledgements

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  • Forbes' 30 under 30[3]
  • LaingBuisson Rising Star[35]
  • Financial Times Top 10 most influential BAME tech leaders in UK[36]
  • Wired Top 10 Innovators in Healthcare[37]
  • 2017 Technology Leader Award (Disruptive Leader of the Year)[38]

References

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  1. ^ "£30m+ Cera Care deal creates one of UK's largest care firms". BusinessCloud.co.uk. Retrieved 18 March 2020.
  2. ^ a b "GTC Student Launches New Initiative". Green Templeton College Oxford. 8 September 2010. Archived from the original on 7 October 2011. Retrieved 5 September 2017.
  3. ^ a b Forbes staff (15 December 2015). "2015: 30 Under 30". Forbes. Retrieved 5 September 2017.
  4. ^ a b Burgess, Mattioli (29 April 2016). "How the NHS will move from 'stone age to digital age'". Retrieved 5 September 2017.
  5. ^ Maruthappu, Mahiben (26 June 2019). "How the NHS' new robot army could stimulate the British economy post Brexit". Med-Tech Innovation | Latest news for the medical device industry. Retrieved 10 March 2020.
  6. ^ "Mahiben Maruthappu, 26". Forbes. Retrieved 10 March 2020.
  7. ^ a b Shute, Joe (30 June 2018). "Meet the 30-year-old tech whizzkid reinventing the NHS and social care". The Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 10 March 2020.
  8. ^ a b "NICE scholars". nice.org. National Institute for Health Care Excellence. Retrieved 5 September 2017.
  9. ^ "Maruthappu, Mahiben". Interacademy Medical Panel. Retrieved 5 September 2017.
  10. ^ Group, British Medical Journal Publishing (28 September 2017). "Ben Maruthappu: Caring about technology". BMJ. 358: j4153. doi:10.1136/bmj.j4153. ISSN 1756-1833. PMID 28963114. S2CID 43694333. {{cite journal}}: |last= has generic name (help)
  11. ^ Underwood, George (1 July 2015). "A shot in the arm". Pharma Times. Retrieved 5 September 2017.
  12. ^ "NHS England » New appointments at NHS England". www.england.nhs.uk. Retrieved 10 March 2020.
  13. ^ Pugh, Rachel (15 September 2016). "Diversity, devolution, innovation: building an NHS fit for the 21st century". The Guardian. Retrieved 5 September 2017.
  14. ^ "NHS England » Healthcare innovators have two weeks left to apply for the 2016 NHS Innovation Accelerator". www.england.nhs.uk. Retrieved 21 December 2022.
  15. ^ "NHS England » Thousands to benefit as first wave of NHS Diabetes Prevention Programme national rollout is announced". www.england.nhs.uk. Retrieved 18 March 2020.
  16. ^ "Mahiben Maruthappu - DigitalHealth.London and hopes for the next 12 months". DigitalHealth.London. 24 May 2016. Retrieved 18 March 2020.
  17. ^ Torrance, Jack (20 February 2017). "MEET THE ENTREPRENEUR TAKING ON THE SOCIAL CARE CRISIS". Management Today. Retrieved 5 September 2017.
  18. ^ "Homecare startup backed by former Deputy PM closes $17m funding round". Bdaily Business News. Retrieved 6 June 2021.
  19. ^ Franklin-Wallis, Oliver (22 May 2017). "This startup wants to solve the social care crisis with AI". Wired UK. ISSN 1357-0978. Retrieved 10 March 2020.
  20. ^ Donnelly, Laura (20 November 2016). "Uber-style service to book carers 'on demand' launched nationally". The Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 10 March 2020.
  21. ^ Cogley, Michael (3 February 2020). "Cera Care boosts acquisition spree with £30m deal". The Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 16 March 2020.
  22. ^ "Cera hits 10 million healthcare visits during Covid pandemic". Digital Health. 15 September 2021. Retrieved 20 January 2022.
  23. ^ "Trust welcomes new non-executive directors". www.imperial.nhs.uk. Retrieved 16 March 2020.
  24. ^ "Three new board members announced by Skills for Care". www.skillsforcare.org.uk. Retrieved 16 March 2020.
  25. ^ "Health Tech Advisory Board Member: Dr. Ben Maruthappu". Digital Health Technology News. 9 May 2019. Retrieved 16 March 2020.
  26. ^ Maruthappu, Mahiben (26 June 2019). "How the NHS' new robot army could stimulate the British economy post Brexit". Med-Tech Innovation | Latest news for the medical device industry. Retrieved 16 March 2020.
  27. ^ "Mahiben Maruthappu - DigitalHealth.London and hopes for the next 12 months". DigitalHealth.London. 24 May 2016. Retrieved 16 March 2020.
  28. ^ Shute, Joe (30 June 2018). "Meet the 30-year-old tech whizzkid reinventing the NHS and social care". The Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 16 March 2020.
  29. ^ "Dr Ben Maruthappu - Ben Maruthappu". Forbes. Retrieved 16 March 2020.
  30. ^ Maruthappu, Mahiben (3 January 2017). "What does 2017 hold for social care?". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 18 March 2020.
  31. ^ Watkins, Johnathan; Wulaningsih, Wahyu; Zhou, Charlie Da; Marshall, Dominic C.; Sylianteng, Guia D. C.; Rosa, Phyllis G. Dela; Miguel, Viveka A.; Raine, Rosalind; King, Lawrence P.; Maruthappu, Mahiben (1 November 2017). "Effects of health and social care spending constraints on mortality in England: a time trend analysis". BMJ Open. 7 (11): e017722. doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2017-017722. ISSN 2044-6055. PMC 5719267. PMID 29141897.
  32. ^ Matthews-King, Alex (16 November 2017). "Landmark study links Tory austerity to 120,000 deaths". Independent.co.uk.
  33. ^ "Expert reaction to paper on health and social care spending and excess deaths in England | Science Media Centre".
  34. ^ "120,000 deaths revisited…". 24 November 2017.
  35. ^ "LaingBuisson Awards 2018. The Winners". LaingBuisson Awards. Retrieved 16 March 2020.
  36. ^ "Top 10: The most influential BAME tech leaders in the UK". www.ft.com. 14 November 2018. Retrieved 16 March 2020.
  37. ^ "Meet the 10 Innovators Revolutionising Healthcare". Wired. Retrieved 7 October 2017.
  38. ^ "Tech Leaders Awards 2017". Information Age. 1 September 2017. Retrieved 29 September 2017.
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