GP & Clinical Leader · AI · Product · Regulation · NHS Strategy

Bridging medicine, AI, and commercial reality.

I'm a GP partner and Clinical Safety Officer (DCB0129/DCB0160). I help health-tech companies, NHS organisations and investors turn promising technology into products clinicians will actually use and healthcare systems will actually buy, safely.

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At a glance

Currently GP · Healthtech Consultant

CSO DCB0129 · DCB0160

GMC 7564358

Based Surrey/London

What I offer

Need a named CSO, a clinical sense-check, or training?

Health-tech work usually starts at a specific moment: an NHS customer has asked for a clinical safety case, a deployment needs signing off, an investor wants to know whether the clinical claims stand up, or a team needs to get up to speed. Every engagement starts with a free conversation.

Named Clinical Safety Officer

For manufacturers (DCB0129) and NHS organisations (DCB0160)

I act as your named CSO: understanding how the product works and where the risks are, reviewing your documentation, running the hazard workshop, producing the DCB0129 or DCB0160 safety documentation, and staying on to assess new features. Typically one to two months from contract to safety sign-off.

DCB0129 DCB0160 Hazard log Ongoing CSO

How clinical safety work runs

Advice for startups & investors

For founders, product teams and health-tech investors

Senior clinical input before the expensive decisions. For founders: is this solving an important enough problem, will the NHS buy it, and what will clinical safety and evidence require? For investors: do the clinical, regulatory and NHS market claims stand up?

Product–market fit NHS adoption Clinical safety Due diligence

What startup & investor advice covers

Talks & training

For product teams, practices, PCNs, training hubs and events

Practical sessions on clinical safety and using AI safely in healthcare, from DCB0129 for product teams to governing AI use in general practice. Remote or in person, tailored to the audience.

Clinical safety AI in practice Remote & on-site CPD

Talk and training topics

After a first project, I can also stay on as an ongoing clinical adviser. Ask about ongoing support →

Selected work

Projects & experience

A selection of clinical leadership and advisory work across NHS and health-tech settings — spanning AI, medical devices, and primary care transformation.

Health Tech Startup

AI patient-facing chatbot

Advised on regulatory positioning, clinical risk, and safe deployment strategy for an AI chatbot in an endoscopy pathway, handling patient communication pre- and post-procedure. Led hazard identification around AI-generated clinical content, patient misinterpretation risks, and failure mode impact on clinical workflows.

AI Patient-facing Endoscopy Secondary care DCB0129

Enterprise IT Manufacturer

Medical device middleware

Led clinical safety strategy for middleware connecting a patient monitoring device to an EPR system. Directed hazard identification across data integrity, connectivity failure modes, and clinical workflow risks — advising on how automated data transfer into the patient record should be governed to maintain clinical safety.

Medical device EPR integration Middleware Secondary care DCB0129

DCB0160 — deployment safety for NHS organisations

NHS

Primary Care

Extensive DCB0160 clinical safety and regulatory advisory work undertaken on behalf of ICBs, GP federations, and individual practices — covering a range of primary care digital health products across the following areas:

AI scribe Digital front door Document management AI receptionist Chronic disease management Robotic process automation

About me

Clinician, strategist, and health-tech insider.

I'm a GP partner and clinical leader with a decade of experience at the intersection of medicine, digital health, and AI. I've advised NHS ICBs, GP federations, and health-tech companies ranging from early-stage startups to established enterprise products — on clinical safety, regulatory positioning, product strategy, and identifying viable clinical markets.

My work sits at a crossroads that few people occupy: I understand what clinicians actually need, what the NHS will and won't adopt, and how to translate that into product and commercial decisions. I've seen health-tech succeed and fail, and I know which variables matter.

I'm increasingly focused on executive clinical leadership — working with high-growth health-tech and AI companies that want a clinical voice at the strategic table, not just in the compliance column.

MBBS, Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry

MSc Health Informatics (dist), UCL/University of Manchester

GMC registered — No. 7564358

Clinical Safety Officer — NHS Digital clinical safety training

DCB0129 (manufacturing) & DCB0160 (deployment)

Get in touch

Let's talk about
your project.

The first conversation is free and without obligation. If you need a named CSO for an NHS launch or deployment, want a clinical sense-check before you build or invest, or are looking for a speaker or trainer, get in touch.

Email john.kilpatrick1@nhs.net

LinkedIn linkedin.com/in/john-kilpatrick-gp-cso/

Location Surrey, London · UK-wide remote