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When you think about rural healthcare, you may not think about Scotland, but Scotland has some very rural areas that deal with similar issues we deal with in rural America.  Hear about what they are doing in rural Scotland to deliver health and wellbeing to their residents, by listening to our conversation with Dr. Emma Watson, 2021-22 U.K. Harkness Fellow in Health Care Policy and Practice Deputy Medical Director at NHS Highland. “NHS Highland delivers integrated health and social care, so it is not just about illness.” ~Dr. Emma Watson Dr. Emma Watson MSc, FRCPath, FRCPEd is a 2020-21 UK Harkness Fellow in Healthcare Policy and Practice.  A Consultant Medical Microbiologist by background and a senior clinical systems leader in Scotland, she is an expert in quality improvement and in medical education and workforce planning.  Emma is Deputy Medical Director in NHS Highland which is, geographically, one of the largest and most sparsely populated combined health and social care systems in the UK.  She is also a senior medical adviser in the Scottish Government.  In both roles her focus is on developing innovative approaches to ensuring equitable access to high quality health care services with a sustainable healthcare workforce, particularly in remote and rural areas.   Emma has led a number of major change programs including the development of Scotland's first graduate entry medical school.  Emma previously held a post in the Scottish Government as Clinical Lead for the Scottish Patient Safety Program during which time she ensured quality improvement methodology translated from the development of health policy and strategy through to implementation across the entirety of the Scottish healthcare system.  Scotland was the first country in the world to implement a patient safety program on a whole system basis at national level.  As Director of Medical Education in NHS Highland she focused on the delivery of high quality medical education as a tool to increase recruitment and attract young doctors to the region as well as ensuring there is now an established programme to encourage young people from the area to go to medical school.  During the COVID-19 pandemic she led the clinical response in her region and ensured there was a whole system approach to manage the impact of the virus.  

In this episode, Veronica speaks with John Sturrock KC, founder and senior mediator at Core Solutions.  Listen to this episode to learn about the following: The connection between food, hospitality, meeting together, and mediation How excellence in mediation is similar to excellence in sports What it means to mediate "minimally" and why you should consider using this approach The role mediators can play regarding discussions of political issues Collaborative Scotland and the "Better Conversations Bus Tour" Learn More: Collaborative Scotland Core Solutions John's Books: Mediator's Musings Vol 1 and Vol 2   About John Sturrock KC: John Sturrock KC is founder and senior mediator at Core Solutions and has also acted as a mediator through Brick Court Chambers in London. For over twenty years, he has been a pioneer of mediation in the UK, with an international reputation, and his work extends to the commercial, professional, sports, public sector, policy and political fields. He is identified as a Global Elite Thought Leader by Who's Who Legal, is a Distinguished Fellow of the international Academy of Mediators and has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Edinburgh. He writes extensively and recently published the second volume of his book entitled “A Mediator's Musings” (both volumes available on Amazon). John also specialises in facilitation, negotiation, mediation and conflict management training and consultancy for leaders in the private and public sectors, sport, the professions and government. For many years, he has worked with various parliaments throughout the UK on improving effective scrutiny of policy. He regularly advises and coaches senior officials in the Scottish Government on negotiation strategy in significant policy areas. He is founder of Collaborative Scotland, which promotes non-partisan respectful dialogue about difficult issues and is one of the initiators of the Mediators' Green Pledge. In 2019, John conducted a major review for the Scottish Government into allegations of bullying in NHS Highland and the subsequent “Sturrock Report” was well received across the public sector. He was a member of the Stewarding Group of the first Citizens Assembly in Scotland in 2019 – 2021. In 2019, John also co-chaired an Expert Group under the auspices of Scottish Mediation which produced an important report entitled “Bringing Mediation into the Mainstream”. John practised at the Scottish Bar from 1986 – 2002 and was appointed a Queen's (now King's) Counsel in 1999 and, as the first Director of Training and Education in the Faculty of Advocates from 1994 to 2002, designed and led the Scottish Bar's award-winning advocacy skills programme. He trained in negotiation at Harvard University in 1996 and was named Specialist of the Year at the Scottish Legal Awards in 2003 and Mediator of the Year at the Law Awards of Scotland in 2009.  He was awarded the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws from Edinburgh Napier University in 2010.

Elaine Mead is currently an Executive Director of Improvement, Care and Compassion, IC&C, an organisation committed to supporting leaders on their improvement journey across the UK and Europe. Elaine has enjoyed over 34 years' experience working in clinical, managerial and Executive roles within the National Health Service across the UK. Her original professional clinical background was as a diagnostic radiographer with experience in general, research and academic settings. In her previous position, Elaine held the position of Chief Executive of NHS Highland for eight years, originally moving to the Highlands of Scotland, as their first Chief Operating Officer. She was responsible for the development of the first totally integrated health and care system in Scotland, which continues to support services across 41% of the most remote and rural land mass of the UK. Elaine is a passionate ambassador for quality and led the development of the Highland Quality Approach, an improvement system supporting NHS Highland to improve quality of care based on increasing value. Through this work she built a world-wide network of contacts to share best practice and has hosted multiple study-tours, presented at many key international conferences and has published on both quality improvement at scale and the integration of health and social care. Elaine coaches and supports teams at Board and Executive level to create value and minimise waste in systems through her works as Executive Sensei for NHS Improvement in England and also as Faculty member of the Institute of Health Improvement. As a committed practitioner of Quality Improvement, Elaine is a certified Lean Leader from Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys having had a close association with the Virginia Mason Institute. Elaine has been awarded a Fellowship by the International Society for Quality in Healthcare ISQua and is a current member of Q Scotland. Elaine has had the opportunity to manage complex systems across the NHS in the UK and also deliver health care and screening in the private sector, working for a number of organisations including the Harley Street Clinic, London, the AMI Group and BUPA. She was a research radiographer on the staff of Guy's and St Thomas' Hospitals Medical Schools. Elaine took up position of visiting Professor at the University of the Highlands and Islands supporting the delivery of disperse multi-professional health and care training across the Highlands and Islands, is an active non-executive member of the Ireland East Hospitals Board in Dublin. As a founding member of the Catalysis European CEO Forum, Elaine now continues to connect colleagues across Europe as Faculty, facilitating and supporting the Forum from her base in Scotland.Link to claim CME credit: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/3DXCFW3CME credit is available for up to 3 years after the stated release dateContact CEOD@bmhcc.org if you have any questions about claiming credit.

In this episode, I chat to Jane Rutherford, a haematology speciality doctor in Inverness. As part of a team of 5 consultants, 2 advanced nurse practitioners, and herself, she covers both NHS Highland and NHS Western Isles, an area comprising over 15,000 square miles and a population of over 350,000 people. Life can be a real challenge - from dealing with snow drifts, tidal islands, and small boats, the team manage to provide first class haematology care to patients with acute leukaemias, ITP, haemophilia, and everything else in between. This is a wide ranging chat about the trials and tribulations as a rural haematologist. If you do want to get in touch with Jane about possibly going to work in Inverness, feel free to email her: Jane.Rutherford@NHS.scot

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In our first episode with Dr. Emma Watson, the 2021–22 U.K. Harkness Fellow in Health Care Policy and Executive Medical Director of NHS Education for Scotland, we talked about the research she started on the challenges faced in rural Scotland and Rural America. This week, Emma is back to tell us about the results of her research into why effective leadership is so important. “Be super proud of being a rural leader, or rural healthcare provider, or a rural community member because it's an amazingly special thing to be.” -Dr. Emma Watson Professor Emma Watson MSc, FRCPath, FRCPEdis a 20/22UK Harkness Fellow in Healthcare Policy and Practice. A Consultant Medical Microbiologist by background and a senior clinical systems leader in Scotland, she is an expert in quality improvement and in medical education, and workforce planning.  Emma is now the Executive Medical Director of NHS Education for Scotland, the organization charged with commissioning and delivering undergraduate and postgraduate medical education in Scotland. Prior to her fellowship Emma was Deputy Medical Director at NHS Highland and held the clinical leadership for4 acute hospitals (3 of which are small rural hospitals) she was also a senior medical adviser in the Scottish Government. In both these roles, her focus was on developing innovative approaches to ensuring equitable access to high-quality healthcare services with a sustainable health and care workforce, particularly in remote and rural areas.  Emma has led a number of major change programs including the development of Scotland's first graduate-entry medical school. Emma previously held a post in the Scottish Government as Clinical Lead for the Scottish Patient Safety Program during which time she ensured quality improvement methodology translated from the development of health policy and strategy through to implementation across the entirety of the Scottish healthcare system. Scotland was the first country in the world to implement a patient safety program on a whole system basis at a national level. As Director of Medical Education in NHS Highland, she focused on delivering high-quality medical education as a tool to increase recruitment and attract young doctors to the region and ensuring there is now an established program to encourage young people from the area to go to medical school. During the COVID-19 pandemic, she led the clinical response in her region and ensured there was a whole system approach to manage the impact of the virus.

When you think about rural healthcare, you may not think about Scotland, but Scotland has some very rural areas that deal with similar issues we deal with in rural America. Hear about what they are doing in rural Scotland to deliver health and wellbeing to their residents, by listening to our conversation with Dr. Emma Watson, 2021-22 U.K. Harkness Fellow in Health Care Policy and Practice Deputy Medical Director at NHS Highland. “NHS Highland delivers integrated health and social care, so it is not just about illness.” ~Dr. Emma Watson Dr. Emma Watson MSc, FRCPath, FRCPEd is a 2020-21 UK Harkness Fellow in Healthcare Policy and Practice. A Consultant Medical Microbiologist by background and a senior clinical systems leader in Scotland, she is an expert in quality improvement and in medical education and workforce planning. Emma is Deputy Medical Director in NHS Highland which is, geographically, one of the largest and most sparsely populated combined health and social care systems in the UK. She is also a senior medical adviser in the Scottish Government. In both roles, her focus is on developing innovative approaches to ensuring equitable access to high-quality health care services with a sustainable healthcare workforce, particularly in remote and rural areas. Emma has led a number of major change programs including the development of Scotland's first graduate entry medical school. Emma previously held a post in the Scottish Government as Clinical Lead for the Scottish Patient Safety Program during which time she ensured quality improvement methodology translated from the development of health policy and strategy through to implementation across the entirety of the Scottish healthcare system.  Scotland was the first country in the world to implement a patient safety program on a whole system basis at the national level. As Director of Medical Education in NHS Highland, she focused on the delivery of high-quality medical education as a tool to increase recruitment and attract young doctors to the region as well as ensuring there is now an established programme to encourage young people from the area to go to medical school. During the COVID-19 pandemic, she led the clinical response in her region and ensured there was a whole system approach to manage the impact of the virus.

For a number of years, there has been a movement towards advanced practice for pharmacists. Our panellists for this session has been right at the sharp end of developing and championing this movement. Learning objectives from this session include: Gain an understanding of what advanced practice is. Take part in debate around why consultant level practice for pharmacists is something we as a profession should aspire to. Consider whether the ‘procrastinating perfectionism' that has been described by authors like Zubin Austin could act as a barrier to these goals. Learn about how you might start your own journey towards advanced practice as a pharmacist. Panellists Gordon Rushworth GP pharmacist and educator Programme Director, Highland Pharmacy Education & Research Centre, NHS Highland. FRPharmS(Consultant). Advanced Pharmacist Practitioner in GP. Paul Forsyth Lead pharmacist clinical cardiology Paul Forsyth currently works at the Department of Pharmacy, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde. He has an interest in the education of pharmacists and in particular competency-based learning as a progression towards advanced practice. Susan Roberts Associate Pharmacy Postgraduate Dean Susan is currently the Associate Pharmacy Postgraduate Dean at NHS Education for Scotland, she is a pharmacist and educator. She recently was asked by the CPhO to lead pharmacy operations at the Louisa Jordan hospital in Glasgow. Jacqueline Sneddon Antimicrobial pharmacist Antimicrobial pharmacist, interested in education and QI. Programmes Manager for BSAC, member of RPS Scottish Pharmacy Board and RPS AMR EAG. Fiona Marra Paediatric pharmacist MPharm (Consultant). Lead Clinician Paediatric Infection (SPAIIN). Principal Pharmacist U of Liv & PHS. PhD candidate. You can view all the sessions at the Future Pharmacist conference by clicking here. Thank you to our conference sponsors Wylie And Bisset. Find out more here.

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Guests:Sally Armour is the Child Health Commissioner for NHS Highland, working with the Highland Health & Social Care partnership, children and young peoples integrated service partnerships and regional planning groups in Scotland. This involves having oversight of population and wellbeing and influencing the service design and delivery of health and other services to support children and young people to achieve the best outcomes across the life course and into adulthood.Dr Neha Shah is the Public Mental Health Research and Evidence Lead at Public Health England and holds an academic post at City University. She is a qualified doctor with specialists registration in public health medicine and is a practising psychodynamic therapist. She has an interest in better understanding and addressing the factors impacting on population mental health and enhancing the quality, relevance and impact of mental health research for those that use it.  Laura Fischer is an artist, activist, lecturer, consultant and researcher. Her work weaves creative approaches with scientific methods and focuses on trauma, often with an activist agenda. She believes that trauma survivors are not powerless, broken individuals and are rather the survivors that have power and the resources to lead their own healing and growth, and contribute to the healing and growth of our communities. A key aspect of Laura's work is to develop novel interventions to respond to violence, abuse and neglect. Her main focus is the neurobiology of childhood trauma and the use of body-based methods to express and process traumatic memories to support healing and growth. In this episode, the group discusses what psychological trauma is and how it relates to mental health.  Dr Neha Shah talks about how childhood trauma can have an increased likelihood of poor mental and physical health outcomes later in life as well as the difference between types of traumas, in particular the difference between PTSD and Complex Trauma. She also discusses what trauma-informed approaches look like in non-healthcare settings. Sally Armour, from a public mental health point of view, talks about 'toxic stress', the distinction between adversity and when adversity becomes trauma and fundamental survival strategies. She touches on the importance of validating the difficulty people have in finding their innate path to recovery and discusses why some adversity and tolerable levels of stress in life are important in shaping us, but need not define us. Laura talks about research she has been involved in since the first lockdown on the impact of social distancing, particularly for young people in abusive environments. A key finding is that we really need everyone to be able to firstly recognise and then respond to trauma. There is a need to make the experience of trauma and the language associated with it understandable to the public. She raises the simple, but impactful idea that being trauma-informed is just being human-informed, looking at a person, their experiences and their perceptions - looking at the human behind the outcome. As a key takeaway, the reality is that trauma is extremely prevalent so don't dismiss it and don't turn a blind eye. Learn to recognise and respond to trauma. Contacts:@Stu_King_Hh @sallycroachy & @acehighland @Neha_D_Shah@brains_brushes

Welcome to the QI Guy in conversation with...podcast. On this episode I have a conversation with Dr Lesley Anne Smith. Lesley Anne is a Health Foundation/Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) Quality Improvement Fellow 2010-11, is a doctor and chartered accountant. She has held several senior roles in the NHS including Head of Quality, NHS Highland and Quality Improvement Programme Director, NHS Education for Scotland. In her most recent role as the NHS Lanarkshire Director of Quality Lesley Anne was responsible for leading the development and implementation of the Lanarkshire Quality Approach ensuring a connected infrastructure is in place that supports NHS Lanarkshire to deliver on its ambition of putting quality at the heart of the organisation. This included providing direct advice and support to the NHS Board and the Corporate Management Team on quality management, including specifically quality assurance, quality improvement and quality evidence, including knowledge services. She led on the development of the NHS Lanarkshire Quality Strategy 2018-23 and supporting Quality Plans to ensure delivery of the organisation's quality priorities. During her fellowship year at IHI Lesley Anne explored ways in which organisations can improve quality while at the same time saving money, with a focus on leadership for whole system improvement. She is currently a Trustee of the Scottish Centre for Children with Motor Impairment at Craighalbert. Learn more about the Essentials of Safe Care from the Scottish Patient Safety Programme by visiting: https://ihub.scot/improvement-programmes/scottish-patient-safety-programme-spsp/essentials-of-safe-care/ Creative approaches to problems solving tool kit: https://q.health.org.uk/resource/creative-approaches-to-problem-solving/ Check out the Twitter @TheQI_Guy

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In the latest edition of the Skyetime Podcast, Simon Cousins talks to the Chair of NHS Highland, Professor Boyd Robertson and the Deputy Medical Director (Community), Dr Paul Davidson about how Skye's health services are coping with the Covid-19 crisis. Island builder, James MacQueen, describes how the construction industry will emerge from lockdown. Accountant Faye Macleod outlines on-going problems with the Government's Job Retention Scheme and Garry Munro of RBS describes the support the bank is giving to business and personal customers.

Nigel Edwards, Chief Executive of the health think tank the Nuffield Trust, joins Dr Margaret McCartney for this special programme about the challenges of remote and rural healthcare. Margaret travels by boat from Mallaig to the Hebridean islands of Eigg, Muck, Rum and Canna off the north west coast of Scotland where, after 100 years the islanders lost their resident doctor. When it was clear there wouldn't be a replacement, the islanders and NHS Highland instead opted for a radical new healthcare model. Taking inspiration from indigenous tribes in Alaska, the NUKA model has been adapted for the Small Isles and it is very different, with a high level of community engagement. The idea is that local people own their own healthcare rather than having healthcare delivered to them, as passive recipients. Local people are trained up in first aid and become salaried Rural Health and Social Care Workers. They are the eyes and ears of healthcare professionals. Volunteers also act as First Responders coordinating helicopter and lifeboat rescues in emergencies. Dr Margaret McCartney joins GP Dr Geoff Boyes on his weekly visit to Eigg and discovers how the community has adapted to this new way of delivering care. She hears from Gill McVicar, former NHS Highland Director of Transformation and Camille Dressler, chair of the Small Isles Community Council, about how the reorganisation was managed; from Julie McFadzean about the new health and rural health and social care worker role; from Sheena Kean, the Eigg healthcare practice manager who makes sure everything runs smoothly and to Eigg residents about how they think their new healthcare model is working. Producer: Fiona Hill Credit Photo of Margaret McCartney: Paul Clarke

We live in this amazing country so why would we want to just pour a cocktail of random pharmaceuticals into the environment? As Pennie Latin discovers, to her astonishment, in Scotland we’re doing that each and every day just by taking a pee. It’s not just peeing the medicines out either, we’re even adding to the problem when we think we’re being conscientious by flushing unwanted pills down the loo. When you take into account the 1.4 million prescriptions dispensed in Scotland every year, that's a lot of potential for pharmaceutical pollution. In this Brainwaves Pennie hears about a pioneering and unique collaboration involving NHS Highland, researchers from the University of the Highland and Islands and Glasgow Caledonian University, together with Scottish Water and SEPA who have come together to share wisdom, research, data and ideas for how to stop this environmental problem before it gets any worse. Its an extraordinary story and one where we all have a part to play. Music by Blue Dot Sessions

This months podcast is on the topic of remote and rural healthcare. Dr Antonia Reed, a GP on the Black Isle and the Clinical Director for Out of Hours Services at NHS Highland is in conversation with one of NHS 24’s Clinical Services Manager, Billy Togneri. It’s a fascinating insight into the way in which the two organisations are working together and how they use feedback from communities to improve the services provided. It also includes details about how technology is increasingly being used to meet those challenges. Anything you'd like us to cover? Get in touch at www.facebook.com/NHS24

In this podcast, we catch up with Ian Rudd who is the Director of Pharmacy in NHS Highland. Our chat explores how the geography of the highlands fo Scotland present barriers but also opportunities for pharmacy practice. We also delve into Ian's early thoughts on the new Scottish pharmacotherapy service. Ian Rudd has been Director of Pharmacy in NHS Highland since 2014. Prior to that, he was an oncology pharmacist with an interest in education and training. Currently, his interest lies in how to introduce new pharmacy services into primary care such that pharmacists are seen as clinical practitioners with responsibility for leading on pharmaco-therapeutic management within general medical practices. If you prefer to never miss an episode you can subscribe on your preferred podcast platform. Just click on the links below to get going. Click here to subscribe on Anchor Click here to subscribe on Apple Podcasts Click here to subscribe on Google Podcasts Click here to subscribe on Spotify Click here to subscribe on Breaker Click here to subscribe on Overcast Click here to subscribe on Pocketcast Click here to subscribe on Radio Public Click here to subscribe on PodBean Click here to subscribe on Stitcher

Bio: Born in Glasgow, Scotland, Cameron Stark graduated in medicine from the University of Glasgow in 1985. After working as a junior doctor in medical and surgical posts, he spent four years working in Psychiatry in the West of Scotland. Stark then trained in Public Health Medicine and has been an NHS Consultant since 1996, first in Ayrshire and then in the Highlands. He has professional qualifications in Psychiatry and Public Health and postgraduate degrees in Risk, Crisis and Disaster Management (University of Leicester) and in Public Health (University of Glasgow). With research interests in public health, mental health and quality improvement, Stark has published over 50 papers in peer-reviewed journals. He has written four previous book chapters, co-edited three academic books and co-authored a recent book on the psy- chology of soccer coaching. He trained as a Lean Leader with Tees, Esk and Wear Valley NHS Foundation Trust, and now coaches staff who are learning about Lean in NHS Highland. Stark is responsible for the quality assurance of Lean training materials used in NHS Highland and works with their Kaizen Promotion Office manager to arrange events and develop training. Away from work, Stark is married with three children and lives in Inverness, Scotland.

In this episode, Helen Noble, associate editor at EBN, talks to Linda Campbell, the stroke coordinator at NHS Highland in Scotland. They are discussing the need for nurse education to address uncertainties of role and contribution in stroke rehabilitation. Read the commentary on the EBN website: http://ebn.bmj.com/content/21/2/44. Commentary on: Loft MI, Poulsen I, Esbensen BA, et al. Nurses’ and nurse assistants’ beliefs, attitudes and actions related to role and function in an inpatient stroke rehabilitation unit: a qualitative study. J Clin Nurs 2017;26:4905–14.