Sloane AssociatesCaroline Allen · London

Work

Consulting engagements and in-house roles.

Consulting clients are not named. Detail and references are available under mutual NDA.

Consulting engagements

Fertility clinic Saudi Arabia Ongoing

Patient acquisition function built ahead of clinic opening.

Brief

A premium fertility clinic preparing to open in a competitive private market, with no acquisition function, CRM or patient-facing team in place.

Delivered

  • End-to-end patient journey and conversion framework
  • CRM specification, rollout and integration with the clinical patient management system
  • Recruitment, onboarding and training of the acquisition and concierge team
  • Training curriculum for advisors and team leads, including grounding in fertility care
  • Three-tier pricing architecture, benchmarked internationally
  • Communication standards and SOPs, assessed through role-play
Fertility clinic United Kingdom

Institutional channel opened for a direct-to-patient clinic.

Brief

An established clinic with strong direct-to-patient demand, being approached by insurers and employers, with no commercial structure to handle them.

Delivered

  • B2B proposition, commercial terms and pricing logic
  • Internal process and handover between the corporate channel and the clinic
  • Relationships with private medical insurers, brokers and corporate clients
  • Handover of the channel to the in-house team
Women's health platform International

UK market entry strategy for a women's health benefits platform.

Brief

An employer-benefits platform with proven traction elsewhere, assessing entry into the UK: a different payer landscape, a different employer culture, and the NHS behind every decision to pay privately.

Delivered

  • Market, competitor and buyer-behaviour assessment
  • Market entry strategy and route-to-market recommendation
  • Commercial model, target segments and first-year priorities
Women's health Pre-seed

Market and acquisition advisory for a pre-seed founding team.

Brief

A clinically sound product and an active investor process, with unresolved questions about where demand sat and who to hire first.

Delivered

  • Market map and segments addressable in year one
  • Customer acquisition strategy and early commercial model
  • Commercial hiring plan: role design, profile and sequence

In-house roles

Commercial and clinical roles held in-house, across the NHS, medical devices, fertility and health technology.

Accurx

Senior Business Development Lead

Senior business development leadership, driving adoption of ambient voice technology across acute secondary care. Enterprise sales into NHS trusts, account planning, contract expansion and line management.

Apricity Fertility

Head of Growth

Commercial leadership at the UK's first AI-driven, venture-backed fertility clinic. Direct-to-consumer patient acquisition and B2B partnership referrals from corporates and private medical insurers, alongside conversion, pricing, refunds, complaints and premium patient journey design.

GE Healthcare

UKI Modality Leader, Maternal and Infant Care and Ventilation

Commercial ownership of a portfolio of approximately $10M across the UK and Ireland, having joined in sales and education. NHS procurement, framework and tender routes, with relationships across clinical leadership, regional networks and category management.

NHS

Registered Midwife

Hospital and community practice across four NHS trusts, to Band 6. Specialist roles including Birth Reflections Midwife, Mentor and Professional Midwifery Advocate.

References

Available on request.

Named references, fuller detail and outcome data can be shared under mutual NDA.