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The Digital Forge Podcast

The Digital Forge

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Frequency: 1 episode/16d. Total Eps: 17

Welcome to The Digital Forge Podcast - where expertise and ideas collide. Hosted by David Richards MBE, this is not another polite chat. It is raw, unscripted debate with the investors, technologists and industry leaders who are shaping the new industrial age. If you want platitudes, look elsewhere. If you want to know where technology and manufacturing are really headed, step into the Forge. Find out more at www.forgedforgrowth.com

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From Orgreave to AI. Richard Stubbs on the NHS, Innovation and the Fight for Health Equity

Season 1 · Episode 17

Tuesday, June 2, 2026 • Duration 01:06:16

Richard Stubbs grew up in Maltby, in a mining family shaped by the strike, Orgreave and the long shadow of deindustrialisation. His father fought the state on land that would later become the Advanced Manufacturing Park. A generation later, Richard chaired the region’s economic board on that same ground.

That journey sits at the heart of Part One of this conversation.

In this episode of The Digital Forge, David Richards MBE speaks to Richard Stubbs, Chief Executive of Health Innovation Yorkshire & Humber, about class, opportunity, the NHS, technology and the future of healthcare.

Richard reflects on his mother’s journey from Jamaica to senior NHS leadership, his own path from Maltby to the BBC, and how live television gave him the urgency and resilience he later brought into the health service.

Then the conversation moves to the big question: why is the NHS so good at invention, but so slow at adoption?

Richard explains why healthcare innovation is not just a technology problem. It is a culture problem. A systems problem. An implementation problem. From fax machines and paper notes to pilots that never scale, he lays bare why the NHS can take years to adopt what already works.

The episode then turns to AI, ambient voice technology, patient data, Palantir, clinical risk, trust and the future role of doctors. Richard argues that AI could transform productivity, triage and access, but only if the public trusts it and the system understands the risks of standing still.

This is a conversation about the NHS at a breaking point, but also at a moment of extraordinary possibility.

If Part One asks whether the NHS can change fast enough, Part Two asks something even bigger: whether health is now the foundation of Britain’s economic future.

You can also meet speakers like Richard Stubbs live at The Digital Forge, where founders, investors, policymakers and industry leaders come together to explore the future of technology, innovation and regional growth.

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