The NHS is haemorrhaging staff. According to the Health Service Journal, 7,000 people are quitting every month. As the UK lurches from a pandemic to a cost-of-living crisis, grim announcements of a failing healthcare system have become a regular feature of British headlines.
Making the leap from a business plan to a fully operating company with customers and employees is an exhilarating journey. There is nothing more exciting and empowering than building a business. Particularly as a woman because you have this added sense of breaking the mould or going against the statistics. With excitement, come some terrifying lows, confidence crises and loneliness. I want to make it one of my personal missions for the negatives not to scare people away.
