Joop is the Head of the Young Foundation's Health Launchpad programme, which has created and supported a growing portfolio of social ventures and has developed the Social Entrepreneur in Residence programme.
His role is to lead the team in its aim to stimulate and encourage innovative ideas and to turn those ideas into new ventures that will make as profound an impact as possible on the UK's health and quality of life. The ventures combine the discipline for sustainability and growth of commercial ventures with the social mission and inclusivity of public sector services.

Joop holds a BSc (hons) in Physiotherapy obtained in the Netherlands and joined the NHS in 1984. After a clinical career, specialising in musculoskeletal diagnosis and treatment, he moved into management and service delivery. At Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, he introduced innovative working practices and promoted inter-organisational integration of services.

Since 2005 he has been working in health innovation as Head of Innovation, Service Delivery, at Health Enterprise East, the NHS Innovation hub for the Eastern Region. Here he initiated and developed a methodology for supporting the commercialisation and adoption of Intellectual Property arising from Service Innovations.

Joop has represented the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy internationally, specifically in the field of professional regulation. He has an interest in ethics and professional conduct matters. He is a Trustee of the British Psychologial Society and is chair of its Professional Conduct Board.

Joop is a director of Healthy Incentives Ltd, a new venture using personal incentives to achieve sustained behaviour change resulting in better health outcomes and cost reduction. He is a Board Member of NeuroResponse, a start-up venture providing telemedicine services to Neurology patients. Joop is a founding partner of a successful physiotherapy clinic in Cambridge.

Contact

Laura Ellison, PA, on laura.ellison@youngfoundation.org or call 020 8980 6263