FIGS
I’ve been a FIGS ambassador since they approached me directly. In August 2025 I was their guest at the Rounds Table in London, a dinner for clinicians on wellbeing in medicine, hosted with Joyce Omatseye.
Physician · Oxford
Dr Nathan Spence
An NHS doctor who explains medicine to more than 250,000 followers online, with over 100 million views. Brands, government, boards and broadcasters work with me when the medicine has to be right and people need to hear it.
- Clinical
- Consultant in Perioperative Medicine, and Chief Resident, Surgical Emergency Unit, Oxford
- Academic
- Senior Medical Tutor, Keble College, University of Oxford, since 2019
- Boards
- Non-executive director, Certus Biomedical and GAS Inc
- Policy
- Founding member, TikTok’s first Clinical Creator Council
Worked with and featured by
Non-executive director: Certus Biomedical and GAS Inc
Audience250,000+followers across five platforms
Reach100m+views of my videos
Medicine10+ yrsa doctor since 2015, still on the rota full time
TeachingOxfordSenior Medical Tutor at Keble College since 2019
Work with me
Who I work with
My full-time job is looking after patients, so I take on a small amount of outside work and choose it carefully. Pick the one that fits you to see what I do, what I’ve done, and how to book.
Brands and agencies
Partnerships and campaigns
Ambassador roles, video series and events for established healthcare brands, from a doctor whose audience trusts him.
- FIGS ambassador · The King’s Trust nine-video series
- Campaigns with Elastoplast and Vaseline
Policy and public health
Frontline clinical insight, and the reach to get public health messages to younger audiences.
- 10 Downing Street, with the Terrence Higgins Trust
- TikTok’s first Clinical Creator Council, with DHSC · Team Halo, UN-backed
Boards and advisory
A practising clinician on the board, asking whether the product makes life easier for patients and the people looking after them.
- Non-executive director, Certus Biomedical and GAS Inc
- Built WardRun, Medacted and Resus One, medical education apps, with AI tools
Media and speaking
Documentaries, podcasts, long-form interviews, panels and talks on medicine and the NHS.
- BBC and The Wall Street Journal
- On stage for The King’s Trust; guest at FIGS’ Rounds Table
A doctor first
Everything I do outside the hospital starts on the ward
I qualified in 2015 and have worked in Oxford for nearly all of my career. I’m a Consultant in Perioperative Medicine, and Chief Resident on the Surgical Emergency Unit and its audit and quality improvement lead, and I’ve taught Oxford medical students at Keble College since 2019.
That’s why brands, broadcasters and policymakers come to me. Medical content can be a force for good, as long as the doctor posting it would say the same thing on the ward.
- Clinical
- Consultant in Perioperative Medicine. Chief Resident and audit lead, Surgical Emergency Unit, Oxford. Cut front-door-to-decision time to under an hour.
- Teaching
- Senior Medical Tutor, Keble College, Oxford, since 2019. Medical school interview panels for five years.
- Education
- MBChB, Keele University, 2015. BSc Experimental Pathology, Barts and The London, 2014.
- Research
- Emergency Medicine Journal, 2024. ASGBI International Surgical Congress, 2025.
- Public health
- TikTok’s first Clinical Creator Council. Team Halo. 10 Downing Street.
- Boards
- Certus Biomedical and GAS Inc
- Ventures
- WardRun, medical education apps on the App Store
Selected work
“I’m a doctor who also works in health communication, not the other way round.”
I work with established healthcare brands and charities, and I stay with them for the long term. More on brand partnerships
The King’s Trust
Nine videos on careers in health and social care, running on my TikTok and Instagram for a year, and talks on stage to young people thinking about those careers.
Public health
10 Downing Street, National HIV Testing Week
The Terrence Higgins Trust invited me to join a small group, with the charity’s patron Beverley Knight, for a half-hour discussion with Keir Starmer. That day he became the first UK Prime Minister to take an HIV test in public.
It sits alongside my work on TikTok’s first Clinical Creator Council, which works with the Department of Health and Social Care on medical misinformation, and Team Halo, the UN-backed effort against COVID-19 vaccine misinformation.
Clinical notes
From the surgical take
What I see looking after surgical patients, and what the evidence says about it. All clinical notes
Getting surgical patients a decision in under an hour
We got the time from arriving at the front door to a decision under an hour. It’s just doing the simple things right.
DISH: one language for surgical wounds
Count the same surgical wounds four ways and you get four infection rates, from 6.8% to 19.2%. DISH is an attempt at one language for them.
The patients anaesthetists look after are sicker than they were in 2013
Fewer of the patients anaesthetists see are fit and well than a decade ago, and it matches what I see at the surgical front door.
Tell me what you have in mind
Brand partnerships, public health work, board roles, media and speaking. We reply within two working days.