Glen Ferris
Glen Ferris leads Healthcare Today’s editorial direction with a focus on patient safety, healthcare standards and the practical impact of innovation on clinical practice. He combines more than two decades of journalism and editing with responsibility for both sponsorship strategy and content, shaping the masthead as editor in chief and managing director. His work sits where frontline care, technology, regulation and professional leadership meet, and he uses that vantage point to connect healthcare professionals with clear, applied insight.
Patient safety and accountability in care
Patient safety and accountability anchor his coverage, especially around how systems and records protect or fail people receiving care. He has written investigative pieces into deaths in care settings, detailing how inadequate risk assessments and other shortcomings in a care home environment contributed to a resident’s death, and tracing the findings of formal investigations and inquests. His feature work includes articles such as “When the record speaks for you, and against you”, examining how written and recorded evidence shapes responsibility and outcomes when care goes wrong.
Across these stories he stays close to documented failures, regulatory judgments and their consequences for organisations and individuals, giving clinical, managerial and governance audiences a clear view of what happens when safety processes break down.
Healthcare Today Digest and editorial curation
As a regular author of Healthcare Today’s digests, Ferris acts as a curator of the wider health news agenda for clinical and industry readers. In editions such as “Read October’s Healthcare Today Digest” and “Dive into August’s Healthcare Today Digest”, he pulls together key developments, interviews and opinion pieces from across the site into a single, navigable package. The digests highlight recurring themes in his editorial lens: quality and safety, the adoption of new technology, regulatory changes, and the operational realities of healthcare delivery. His digest work is concise and selective, designed to surface what matters most to time-pressed professionals rather than exhaustively listing every story.
Podcast coverage of medtech, inequality and future care
Ferris is a central voice in Healthcare Today’s audio coverage, fronting the Healthcare Today Podcast and Healthcare Tomorrow Podcast series.
In “Podcast: How birthing simulators are tackling maternal health inequality”, he brings in voices such as Laerdal Medical’s Rhonda McQuire to explore how simulation-based training can reduce maternal mortality inequality, linking technology choices to training practice and outcomes. In “Podcast: How AI is rewriting Europe’s medtech compliance rules”, he interviews guests including CertHub’s founders about how artificial intelligence can accelerate regulatory compliance for medical devices, unpacking complex regulatory frameworks into practical implications for manufacturers and clinicians. “Healthcare Tomorrow Podcast: Innovation in vaginal drug delivery” and “Podcast: Patient monitoring and the future of obesity care” show the same pattern: he uses long-form conversations to dig into the Eureka moment behind new medtech solutions, the clinical problems they address, and their potential impact on future models of care.
The podcast strands consistently focus on applied innovation rather than speculative technology, giving his audience grounded case studies of tools already moving into practice.
Healthcare professional services and leadership moves
Ferris also covers the business and leadership side of healthcare, particularly within professional services and integrated platforms. In news pieces such as “Maulin Group appoints Caroline Smith as Group President” and “Maulin Group appoints former Nuffield Health CEO to strategic advisory board”, he reports on senior appointments that shape global healthcare professional services and advisory work. These articles track how experienced executives are brought into new roles, what mandates they carry, and how their experience in quality, operations and leadership is expected to influence wider healthcare practice. By combining this corporate reporting with his safety and innovation coverage, he presents a joined-up picture of how decisions in boardrooms and advisory boards can affect standards and patient outcomes.
Across formats - investigations, digests, news stories and podcasts - Glen Ferris maintains a consistent emphasis on patient safety, regulation, and the real-world impact of medtech and service design. He writes in clear, accessible language aimed at clinicians, managers and industry professionals who need to understand not just what is changing in healthcare, but how those changes intersect with accountability, training and leadership. His role at Healthcare Today gives him both editorial latitude and responsibility, and his body of work reflects a continuous effort to connect evidence, expertise and innovation back to safer, higher-quality care.
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