Insight Hub

Notes from the health workforce coalface.

Short, sector-specific pieces from the Scale Health clinical delivery, commercial and leadership teams. Written for operators, not job boards.

Market intel

The UK ADHD Market After 'The Great ADHD Myth': What Operators Need to Know

The Channel 4 documentary 'The Great ADHD Myth?' has intensified debate in the UK ADHD market. We analyse the fallout and commercial implications for providers.

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Market Intel

The Market Shift to Autism Subtypes: What New Research Means for UK Healthcare

Recent research reveals a major shift towards defining autism spectrum disorder by its biological subtypes. This creates new opportunities in diagnostics, targeted therapy, and personalised care.

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Market Intel

The Healthspan Market: A Guide for UK Healthcare Leaders

Lifespan is growing, but healthspan (healthy years) is not keeping pace. This gap presents a significant opportunity for UK health businesses focused on prevention.

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Market Intel

The Adult ADHD Market: A Surge in Female Diagnosis is Reshaping UK Healthcare

A surge in adult ADHD diagnosis, particularly among women, is creating a major new market. We analyse the drivers, the patient profile, and the hiring implications for UK health businesses.

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Pay guide

Psychiatrist salary UK: NHS, private and remote in 2026

What psychiatrists actually earn across NHS, independent and digital providers in the UK, including per-assessment rates, supervision premiums and the numbers that hide inside a headline fee.

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Pay guide

Advanced nurse practitioner salary UK: NHS, private and remote

What ANPs earn across NHS bands, independent providers and remote clinical work in the UK, and why prescribing scope is now the single biggest lever on your rate.

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Pay guide

Medical Director salary UK: independent, digital and fractional

What Medical Directors earn across UK independent providers, health tech and fractional arrangements, what the equity is usually worth, and how the role is scoped when it works.

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Workforce

What a Right to Choose clinical bench actually looks like

Referral volume is not the constraint. Assessor capacity, supervision ratios and reporting turnaround are, and they need to be staffed as one system.

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GLP-1

Building prescribing capacity without burning your governance

Weight-management demand rewards speed, but the clinics that survive scrutiny treat prescribing capacity and clinical governance as the same hiring problem.

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Commercial

Selling into PMI, employer and NHS in the same quarter

Three buyers, three procurement clocks, three definitions of value. Most commercial hires are only fluent in one, and that is what breaks the plan.

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Leadership

The Medical Director profile scale-ups keep getting wrong

Clinical credibility alone will not carry a growth-stage health business. Neither will commercial instinct without a licence to practise behind it.

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ADHD & ASD

Assessment throughput vs. clinical quality | the false trade-off

Throughput problems are almost never clinician-speed problems. They are triage, tooling and reporting problems wearing a clinical costume.

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Women's health

D2C menopause clinics: staffing before spend

Paid acquisition converts faster than clinical hiring completes. Launching in the wrong order produces a waiting list and a refund queue.

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