'The right stuff' - a term coined by Tom Wolfe - is a multifaceted quality possessed by the pilots and astronauts in the early days of the Mercury space programme, a blend of piloting skill, courage, experience, nerve and reflexes. Project Mercury was a challenge of tremendous complexity and scale - any team of designers facing a similar design challenge draws upon a mixture of experience, skill and personal qualities to face that challenge.

There is no industry sector more ripe for digital transformation than Healthcare. Spiralling costs, inefficient systems, out dated infrastructure, queues and understaffing, broken patient experiences. After all, healthcare is the only business where the customer actually comes last. What we need is Healthcare 2.0 - more digital technology, more connected devices, more ubiquitous monitoring, AI driven logic, some patient apps even.