Overview
Amanda Philpott is the founder and chief executive of eargym, which she started in May 2020. She is based in the United Kingdom. From September 2019 to June 2020 she founded a company at ZINC.
Philpott spent much of her career in the NHS. From January 1991 to January 2004 she held various NHS management roles in hospitals and in primary and community care settings, and from January 2004 to September 2008 she was executive director of strategy. After a year as managing director of Quance Cormack Limited, she returned to the NHS in September 2009, serving successively as deputy chief executive, chief executive, managing director, executive director of strategy and provider development, and, from October 2012 until April 2019, chief officer. She was also an elected board member of NHS Clinical Commissioners from January 2014 to April 2019.
She studied psychology and sociology at Oxford Brookes University and took an MBA at the School of Business and Law, University of Brighton.
Career history
In the news
- It's that time of year when eargym | B Corp prepares and shares our annual report. A good moment to reflect on how the world of hearing health is evolving rapidly. Both the opportunity and the imperative for self-managed prevention are large. eargym | B Corp is doing its part. Are you? If not, how can we help? NHS England
- So impressed with Elliott Timms challenge of running 100 miles in 24 hours, raising money for Alzheimer's Society. If you feel able to sponsor him for this important cause, please do. 💰😄
- Over a long career there are a few pieces of work you reflect on where you know you really made a difference. For me, the first is Better Beginnings which concluded in 2015 (see https://lnkd.in/evRwr6vy). As a CCG Chief Executive in NHS Sussex, I was privileged to be part of an excellent team of clinicians and managers from across several organisations that reshaped maternity services in East Sussex to improve safety. These are some of the hardest decisions in the NHS. What made the difference was how we worked with local
- Over a long career there are a few pieces of work you reflect on that you know really made a difference. For me, the first is Better Beginnings which concluded in 2015 (https://lnkd.in/evRwr6vy). As a CCG Chief Executive in NHS Sussex, I was privileged to be part of an excellent team of clinicians and managers from across several organisations that reshaped maternity services in East Sussex to improve safety. These are some of the hardest decisions in the NHS. What made the difference was how we worked with local campaigners
- 3 million. We had to read that number twice. 🎧 One video. One minute. Virtually no ad spend. And somehow it's become one of the biggest conversations about hearing we've ever been part of. So we sat down and asked ourselves: what does it actually mean? For the people pressing play, and for everyone who helped build it. And this is just the start. Annual hearing care for your whole company costs about the same as a few cups of coffee per person. If you're an employer or insurer who wants to make a real difference, let's talk. 👉
- 3 million. We had to read that number twice. 🎧 One video. One minute. Virtually no ad spend. And somehow it's become one of the biggest conversations about hearing we've ever been part of. So we sat down and asked ourselves: what does it actually mean? For the people pressing play, and for everyone who helped build it. And this is just the start. Annual hearing care for your whole company costs about the same as a few cups of coffee per person. If you're an employer or insurer or health care funder who wants to make a real
- Excited to return to Las Vegas for #HLTHUSA2026, the #1 healthcare innovation event, Nov 15-18. Come and find eargym | B Corp on the AgeTech Collaborative™ from AARP ATC stand, we look forward to talking to you. And you can do a medical grade speech-in-noise check in just 3 minutes ... 👂⏱️ 👏
- In Washington DC last week for the AgeTech Collaborative™ from AARP Annual Conference. An incredibly valuable couple of days for eargym | B Corp of building networks and gaining first-hand insights into current US policy, opportunities and risks in healthy ageing. Among many superb conversations, the stand out for me was Rana el Kaliouby, Ph.D. discussing empathetic AI. Her session really challenged my beliefs around what AI I will accept for my older relatives and friends versus the very young people in my life; I'm carefully
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