The UK’ s National Healthcare Service has 7.2 million people on its waiting list, and 99,800 of those have been waiting for over a year to be seen by a doctor, according to NHS data from April 2026. This crisis is compounded by inefficiencies at every stage of care: heavy clinical paperwork burdens, severe backlogs in diagnostic imaging and an over-reliance on centralised hospital settings for complex drug delivery. To explore how technology can alleviate these pressures, we hosted a roundtable discussion featuring three industry pioneers. The panel includes Dr Lizzie Tuckey, UK Managing Director at Scan. com, a tech-enabled diagnostics platform; Dr Katie Baker, Director for UK & Ireland at Tandem Health, an AI medical assistant and ambient scribe; and Dr Katie King, Founder and CEO at BioOrbit, a biotechnology startup. Together, they discuss how AI, automation and space-based manufacturing are modernising patient pathways and clinician workflows.