Tech alone won’t save UK healthcare – Finn Stevenson, Flok Health
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5.0 • 6 Ratings
🗓️ 24 February 2026
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Finn Stevenson, co-founder and chief executive officer of Flok Health, discusses the slow pace of change and the strategic shortfalls of public health organisations, the real-world health impact of these challenges and why tech is one part of the solution needed.
Flok Health is an AI-powered physiotherapy clinic that provides patients with virtual appointments to treat back pain. The platform fuses AI and human physiotherapists for personalised care without long waiting lists.
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| 0:00.0 | There are very few startups that would be prepared or capable for their first time they roll out to be to 70 million people. |
| 0:17.0 | The clinical definition of chronic pain is pain for more than 12 weeks. |
| 0:20.0 | There are very few places in the country that you can see a physio in less than 12 weeks on the NHS. |
| 0:29.6 | Now we have regulatory frameworks for this. |
| 0:32.6 | If you've got a piece of software that is directly making treatment decisions for a patient, that's a class 2A medical |
| 0:40.0 | device. And if that framework exists, we don't need a new framework to do that. We just need to |
| 0:45.3 | be clear that if that's part of the use case, that that's the certification that's required. |
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