Dr Simon Bourne, CEO, Qualified from University College London in 1995 and specialised in respiratory medicine. He took up a role as lead COPD consultant, and senior lecturer at University Hospital Southampton in 2007, and took most of his practice from the trust, into the community within the first 3 months. Realising innovation was key to reaching COPD patients, and others with long term conditions in the community, he set up new community pathways within Southampton City and formed my mHealth; the leading UK supplier of long-term condition digital products. Simon became one of the first NHS National Innovation Accelerator Fellows to help deliver the 5-year forward view after independent health economic analysis from the department of health, identified massive savings to the UK health economy, and improved outcomes using my mHealth digital solutions. He successfully gained ITT status for myCOPD, which is the first, and currently the only NHS approved app.
