Enhance-d
Chief Product, Information and Technology Officer - diabetes-focused mobile platform: 5,000+ users in 100+ countries, 600,000+ activities logged, 3bn+ data points processed, 46%+ DAU:MAU.
Healthcare · Product · Engineering
Henry AspdenDigital, product and technology leader
A record of work in healthcare and healthtech - products, pathways, data and the teams behind them.
Leeds, UK
About
I work on digital services where clinical safety and real-world delivery matter: products, pathways, data and the teams behind them. I also lead digital change - embedding tools in organisations, raising digital maturity through what we ship and how people work together, and nudging culture so digital is seen as a tool to use with intent, not only a means to an end. Alongside the day job I co-founded and run Enhance-d Club, a non-profit supporting ~500 athletes living with Type 1 diabetes across the UK and beyond - a lot of the work on this page exists because that community does.
Focus areas
Healthtech and digital healthNHS and independent healthcareDiabetes, community and lived experienceProduct strategy and deliveryClinical pathways and safetyData, analytics and governanceDigital change and maturityIntegrations and architectureCommercial modelling and operations
Highlights
Representative outcomes across product, integrations, rapid delivery, clinical infrastructure, data and digital change - mostly in healthcare and healthtech.
Enhance-d Club (non-profit)
Co-founded and run a non-profit supporting ~500 athletes living with Type 1 diabetes - peer support, access to technology, training, education and resources. UK-rooted, expanding across the Netherlands, US, Romania and Switzerland.
Product and integrations
Shipped community features, Activity Glucose Response, leaderboards and gamification, nutrition and macro tracking, menstrual cycle insights and education - plus integrations across CGM, pumps, Nightscout, wearables and partners.
COVID-19 testing platform
Designed, built and stood up a COVID-19 swabbing, results and certificate platform for LivingCare in days - tens of thousands of patients across five sites and £7m+ revenue.
Canon Medical Arena / CDC
Ran digital and infrastructure delivery end to end: networking, cloud identity, telephony, imaging connectivity and site resilience - finished ahead of schedule and under budget.
Data and commercial
Dashboards, budgets and operating models that moved the needle on utilisation, patient flow, reporting quality, attendance and revenue.
Digital change and maturity
Embedding tools in organisations and boosting digital maturity through delivery and culture - so people see digital as a tool they can wield with intent, not just a project category or box to tick.
Topics
Leading digital change - tools embedded, maturity raisedDigital culture - capability, not only deliveryProduct strategy and roadmapsService and pathway designHealthcare and digital healthInformation governanceCommercial modelling and business casesStakeholder and board engagementDelivery leadershipArchitecture and integrationsOperational improvementAnalytics, KPI design and dashboardsHands-on technical leadership
Experience
Where I’ve spent my time - healthtech, NHS-scale delivery, the diabetes community I co-founded, and long-running client work.
Governance and assurance
- Board papers, SLT updates, programme reports, investment decks and quality reporting - NHS trusts and startups alike.
- Budgets, operating models and business cases: service design, financial modelling and using data in real decisions.
- DPIA, DTAC, GDPR, DSP Toolkit, accessibility, risk and asset registers, incidents, RBAC and least privilege.
- From vision to vendor selection, issue tracking, version control, releases and troubleshooting - I stay close to the detail.
Tools and platforms
Pick a category - rough map of what I actually use week to week.
RoadmapsUser discoveryService designRelease managementSemantic versioningBusiness casesKPIs and dashboardsMixpanelLinearGitHubCursorCannyMicrosoft Project
Selected work
A few pieces of work I’ve helped shape - context, role and outcomes for each.
In their words
A few people I’ve worked with, on what the work was like.
Henry combines executive clarity with the ability to roll up his sleeves and ship. Rare, and exactly what we needed in our agile and fast-paced startup.
Sam Scott
CEO · Enhance-d
He moves between product strategy, clinical pathways and hands-on engineering without dropping any of them. The team trust him and the work reflects it.
Luke Minshall
Director · LivingCare
Delivered a national-scale platform on an unreasonable timeline, then stayed to make it boring and reliable. That's the hard part.
Stephen Jarmuz
General Manager · Harrogate and District NHS
Products & tools
Filter by who it was for (Enhance-d, LivingCare or freelance) and by type. I only link out when there’s a proper public page.
Work context
Product type
- Websites
Enhance-d
Enhance-d website
The main Enhance-d site - product information, updates and what we’re shipping for the diabetes community.
enhance-d.com - Web apps
Enhance-d
Clinical dashboard (web)
Web dashboard for glucose, exercise and device data - care teams and users, alongside the mobile apps.
dashboard.enhance-d.com - Web apps
Enhance-d
Enhance-d shop
The Enhance-d e-commerce store on our domain.
shop.enhance-d.com - Websites
Enhance-d Club
National/remote
The UK community programme - membership, events and content I run with the team.
enhance-d.com/club - Mobile apps
Enhance-d
Switzerland/remote (iOS)
App Store listing - diabetes and exercise; published under Sestante Analytics AG.
App Store - Mobile apps
Enhance-d
Switzerland/remote (Android)
The same app on Google Play.
Google Play
Selected writing
Occasional notes on product, digital change and healthcare - published wherever an audience is already paying attention.
- ·LinkedIn
Most diabetes tech still treats exercise as an exception
Why diabetes technology should be built around people in motion, not just people at rest - and what that means for Enhance-d.
- ·LinkedIn
Partnerships that change how diabetes care approaches physical activity
Notes from meeting the diabetes teams at Manchester Royal Children’s Hospital on the Enhance-d pilot with Dexcom UK - clinics, technology and lived experience working together.
- ·LinkedIn
Why I quietly cancelled my Strava subscription
Strava shows what I did; it doesn’t explain how my body responded. On building Enhance-d to connect exercise and glucose data for people living with Type 1 diabetes.
Speaking and contribution
Talks, podcast, open source.
Speaking
Talks on diabetes, exercise and digital health - ACDC, Diabetes Professional Care, ATTD Tech Fair.
Podcast
Host and producer - 100+ episodes; guests include Partha Kar, Mandy Marquardt and Sam Scott.
Open source
Contributor across the diabetes tech ecosystem - Nightscout (70,000+ users), xDrip+, AndroidAPS and Loop.
Non-profit · community
Enhance-d Club
A non-profit I co-founded for athletes living with Type 1 diabetes. It started in the UK and, quietly, has found its people in the Netherlands, the United States, Romania and Switzerland too.
We're a peer-support community first - weekly video calls, in-person events, and the kind of practical, been-there-done-that advice that rarely makes it into a clinic appointment. Alongside that we help members get access to the technology, training, education and resources that make being active with diabetes more confident, less lonely, and genuinely joyful.
Much of what I care about in this field - and much of the work on this page - exists because this community does. If you share the mission, please get involved.
- Athletes supported
- ~500
- Countries and growing
- 5
- Podcast episodes
- 100+
Athletes supported
Countries and growing
Podcast episodes
- Peer support - weekly calls, events and a community that listens
- Access to technology - devices, sensors and digital tools that help
- Training and education - practical guidance for training with T1D
- Resources and partnerships - Medtronic, Abbott / FreeStyle Libre, Dexcom
Hobbies & interests
Outside work - mostly moving, often with other people, plus tinkering with tech, smart home, automations and health for their own sake - and music when I’m not on a bike.
- Cycling
- Running
- Swimming
- Endurance sport
- General fitness
- Outdoor activity
- Community & group events
- Personal tech & tinkering
- IoT & smart home
- Digital automations
- Health, wellbeing & performance
- DJ / musician
Say hello
If any of this resonates, I’m always happy to chat - a video call or email both work.