Welcome to #OurEntrepreneurs, a series where we meet our innovators and uncover what inspired them to create change. Today, we’re delighted to introduce Leya Luhar, joining us from Leicester.
Tell us a bit about yourself
I’m a Foundation Year 1 doctor from the University of Leicester with an MSc in Healthcare Management, and a real passion for how healthcare communicates with the world beyond the clinic walls.
Name: Leya Luhar, NHS Clinical Entrepreneur Cohort 10
Occupation: Foundation Year 1 Doctor
Alongside medicine, I founded OSCE Toolbox, a digital education platform that has supported over 5,000 pharmacy students across the UK. It was through that work that I first saw just how powerful it can be when healthcare professionals find their voice online.
Tell us about your innovation
Healthcare Creators Collective (HCC) is a clinician‑led initiative providing education, community, and real opportunities for healthcare professionals creating digital content.
Patients are already online, searching symptoms on TikTok, watching health explainers on Instagram, and making decisions based on what they find. Social media shapes healthcare; the real question is whether credible healthcare professionals are part of that conversation.
Right now, many aren’t. Not because they don’t care, but because the system hasn’t caught up. There’s no training, no infrastructure, and no community for clinicians who want to engage digitally without risking their registration or feeling like they’re operating in a professional grey area.
Healthcare Creators Collective addresses this directly. Through structured education, a vetted creator community, and meaningful partnerships, we’re building the infrastructure that should already exist, so that when someone searches for health information online, the most trusted voice in the room is actually a clinician. Our aim is to help credible voices show up confidently in the spaces where patients are already searching for answers, and ensure what they find is accurate, trustworthy, and grounded in real expertise.
In the long term, we believe HCC can meaningfully shift the quality of health information online, reduce misinformation‑driven harm, and help the NHS recognise digital communication not as a liability, but as one of its most powerful public health tools.
Why did you join the programme and how do you hope it will support you?
I’ve known about the NHS Clinical Entrepreneur Programme for a few years, it’s something you hear about often when you’re moving in healthcare innovation circles. I didn’t apply earlier because I didn’t have something specific enough to build yet, but Healthcare Creators Collective changed that.
Once Dr Dev Gakhar (Cohort 10 Clinical Entrepreneur) and I realised what we were trying to create, the programme felt like the right home for it. Not just for the network and mentorship, though both matter enormously, but because HCC is fundamentally aligned with where the NHS needs to go: digital transformation, workforce innovation, and rebuilding public trust. I wanted to build HCC inside a structure that understands that direction, not outside it.
I’m especially excited about the mentorship the programme provides. Healthcare Creators Collective sits at an unusual intersection of healthcare, education, digital communication, and the creator economy, and I want to learn from people who’ve navigated complex systems and built things that last. I’m particularly interested in regulation, sustainability, and how to scale without losing credibility. Beyond that, I hope the programme helps me make connections I couldn’t make alone. The people shaping the future of healthcare aren’t only in clinical settings, they’re in policy, tech, research, and I want HCC to be in conversation with all of them.
What are your ambitions for the next year?
In the next year, I want Healthcare Creators Collective to become the go-to home for healthcare professionals who create content. A space where clinicians can learn, connect, and create responsibly. That means a genuine education programme, a trusted and growing community, real brand partnerships that work for clinicians rather than compromising them, and events that bring people together in a way that actually moves things forward.
On a personal level, I want to understand more deeply how innovation is implemented inside healthcare systems, not just conceived, but actually adopted. That’s the harder problem, and it’s the one I find most interesting.
Why do you think innovation is healthcare is important?
I find innovation genuinely exciting, there’s something thrilling about looking at a system and asking whether it could work differently, better, and in a way that reflects how people live now rather than how they lived when the system was first designed.
In healthcare, innovation matters because the stakes are so high. People make real decisions about their bodies, their families, and their futures based on the information available to them. When innovation improves that information, makes it more accessible, or puts it in front of someone who might never have found it otherwise, that isn’t abstract impact. That’s someone’s life shifting in a meaningful way. That’s what makes it worth doing.