Podcasts about nhs trusts

In discussion with Rob Feltham, Ross McIntosh provides a fascinating overview of the ACT framework and how it can help leaders to build psychological flexibility, in part by managing the interactions between their ‘inner voices' and the ways that they show up at work. Topics covered include: building self awareness with the help of the Micro Pause and Macro Pause; managing transitions between leadership situations; and values-driven authentic leadership.  Ross is a business psychologist and coach who uses evidence-based psychology in all areas of his freelance career. At City St George's, University of London, he works alongside Dr Paul Flaxman in an academic/practitioner partnership. They design and deliver ACT Workplace Training for both the public and private sector. Ross also lectures in organisational psychology at City St George's and Birkbeck, University of London.    Ten years ago, Ross founded his consulting business which aims to cultivate well-being, adaptability, authentic action and awareness in organisations. He has designed and delivered evidence-based training to over 23 NHS Trusts, HM Treasury & Civil Service, Nectar Loyalty, teachers, a global tech company, a big four consultancy, Diageo, hedge fund managers and a variety of ballet companies including Rambert, Scottish Ballet, Northern Ballet and The Royal Ballet.   In a bid to reach more adults with the behavioural science from ACT and beyond, the People Soup Podcast was born in 2018. It's won awards, has a global reach and in the global ranking is one of the top 2.5% most popular podcasts (in a field of around 3.5 million!)   Prior to his portfolio career, Ross spent over 20 years in Senior HR roles in Government. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute for Personnel and Development (CIPD), a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA) and a Fellow of the Association for Coaching.  Ross's website can be found at: https://rossmcintosh.co.uk/Rob Feltham is podcast editor of the ABP.

A series of emails have revealed NHS Trusts forced Manx Care to backtrack on plans to cut off-Island surgical operations - Meanwhile, an MHK is calling for the island to follow the UK which is scrapping NHS England by removing Manx Care- And should there be a financial charge when submitting a Freedom of Information request with the Government

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In this week's episode, we speak with eating disorder advocate, Nicky Smith, about report released by The All-Party Parliamentary Group, “The Right To Health: People with eating disorders failed”.The report shares the experiences of those impacted by eating disorders and the inaccessible care for those who need it.As part of the report, we are calling on the Government to:

This episode provides an overview of this guidance for NHS estates and finance managers and directors. Join us and listen to the conversations between our real estate health experts who work for NHS Trusts across the country and hear their reflections on the key themes which are crucial to have in mind when managing the NHS Estate.

Episode Sponsored by Naq   In this week's episode, Ben shares his journey to reducing health inequality by cutting waiting lists and helping more patients access care through the power of AI.    We discussed:   

xWave Technologies, an Irish Healthtech start-up, today announced that it has won its first competitive UK tender covering 8 NHS Trusts in the Northeast of England. xWave will provide its proprietary clinical decision support (CDS) software to GPs across the region serving over 3 million patients, helping them access the right diagnostic test for patients at the right time. To fund ambitious expansion plans, xWave, headquartered at NovaUCD in Dublin, has also launched a crowdfunding campaign on the Spark Crowdfunding platform with €725K already committed by existing shareholders. Mitchell O'Gorman, CEO, xWave Technologies, said, "As providers of CDS technology, we empower clinicians to select the most appropriate imaging tests for their patients. This is in keeping with the company mission of 'best test first' for patients. This contract win is a validation of the value that xWave brings in helping reduce patient waiting lists and easing pressures on health services. We want to bring this important solution to new markets with this funding round on the Spark Crowdfunding platform, while further developing our AI capabilities in this area." He added, "In total, this year alone, our annual recurring revenue has reached €500k. This is why we're fund raising. We have the right technology, and we can scale very rapidly to capture our share of what is a massive worldwide market." xWave CDS leverages clinical decision support technology to significantly help referral and vetting processing for radiology clinicians to help patients get the most appropriate scan first, and fast. Timely and accurate diagnosis of patients can give the best health outcomes possible. In radiology the US FDA has estimated that up to 50% of advanced radiology scans may be unnecessary and not of benefit to the patients that they are performed on. This can result in long waiting lists and poor patient outcomes, including delayed diagnoses, missed diagnoses and unnecessary radiation exposure. It also costs health systems substantial sums of money spent annually on unnecessary radiology scans. xWave CDS addresses these issues by ensuring that patients are referred for the best test for them at the right time. Chris Burge, CEO, Spark Crowdfunding, said, "This is another great investment opportunity for anyone willing to invest from €100 upwards. There are attractive tax breaks as well, providing an ideal chance to start building a personal share portfolio or nest egg." Investments made into the xWave opportunity attract EIIS relief. xWave has previously raised €2.8 million in funding including €250k from Enterprise Ireland.

Psychoanalysis and Humanising the Workplace Gabriella Braun, a renowned consultant and author, delves into her fascinating journey, sharing her insights from her latest book, All that we are: Uncovering the Hidden Truths Behind Our Behaviour at Work. Gabriella discusses how psychoanalytic principles can provide deep insights into organizational dynamics and group behavior, influencing everything from leadership to team cohesion. Her emphasis on emotional awareness highlights its critical role in effective coaching, while she explores how vulnerability in professional environments can foster stronger connections and transform group interactions. Gabriella underscores the importance of humanizing the workplace, particularly in the face of rapid digitalization and societal change. She reflects on the interplay between personal and professional boundaries, noting how understanding these elements can contribute to healthier organizations. Gabriella also touches on societal issues, emphasizing the need for sensitivity and awareness in addressing them within organizations.The discussion centers on the broader theme of living a balanced, meaningful life, where understanding human desire and behavior, curiosity, and playfulness contribute not just to workplace success but to a more connected, compassionate society. Bio Gabriella Braun is the Director of Working Well, a specialist consultancy firm using psychoanalytic and systemic thinking to help leaders and teams. She has consulted to hundreds of clients including British Library, RADA, Tate, NHS Trusts, Schools, Colleges, University of Cambridge and University of London. She holds a masters's degree in Consulting to Organisations: Psychoanalytic Approaches; and was a Principal Consultant with the Tavistock Consultancy Service. She was on on Associate Faculty of the Dynamics of Consulting Program (in US), and has directed and held staff roles in numerous experiential workshops about leadership and team dynamics in UK and abroad. 

In this episode, Rebecca Paddick spoke to Holly Felstead, Social Media Manager at Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.  TikTok and other social media sites have helped Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust to target new audiences of all ages, and to generate meaningful engagement.  Holly and Rebecca discussed why some NHS Trusts may have shied away from TikTok in the past and how the attitude towards the platform has now shifted, and how else the NHS could leverage TikTok to effectively communicate important health information to different audiences.  Take a listen. 

Today's guest Sue Musson has handled many a crisis in her career, including leading one of the largest NHS Trusts through the pandemic.  In this episode she shares what she's learnt about keeping calm in a crisis.    We discuss:  Sue's overall philosophy for coping with a crisis  How to calm yourself down from the initial state of panic  How to keep your team calm in a crisis too  The importance of taking personal responsibility as a leader  What to do when you don't know what the right decision is  The keys to successful communication when managing a crisis    Sue shares some great stories from her own leadership experience, as well as her 6 step crisis management framework from her book Firecracker Leadership.    My name's Carla Miller, leadership coach, author, trainer and founder of Women Leading, the community that helps women lead without overwhelm.  I'm on a mission to empower women leaders in the workplace and make leading less lonely.      And this is the Influence & Impact podcast for women leaders, helping you confidently navigate the ups and downs of leadership and feel less alone on your journey as a leader.  In fortnightly episodes I share practical tools and insights from myself and my brilliant guests that will help you succeed in your career.    About Sue Musson:  Sue Musson achieved her first board-level leadership role at the age of twenty-seven. She is keen to share what she has learned to help other women build their confidence and impact.  For 30 years, Sue has led numerous organisations including her own successful businesses under the Firecracker brand. She recently completed her term as Chairman of Liverpool University Hospitals, one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, with 14,000 staff and a turnover of £1.2Bn.  Sue led the trust through a merger, the pandemic and the opening of a new hospital by the Prince and Princess of Wales.   Her experience of leadership spans the full gamut of highs and lows, which she recounts with honesty, insight and humour in her new book, Firecracker Leadership.   The book achieved number one bestseller status in three categories on Amazon and became a top ten bestseller in the USA. Firecracker Leadership is endorsed by the Mindvalley Book Club: “We are happy to endorse Firecracker Leadership (which) is a wonderfully written and structured book. It is packed with great ideas and quote-worthy wisdoms…It is a wonderful book that we are happy we got our hands on.”  Concepts from the book have been featured in publications like Forbes, European Business Review, Elite Business, She Can Code, HR News, Startups Magazine, Training Journal and The HRDirector.   Having served for fifteen years as a non-executive director and chair of five of the UK's most significant healthcare organisations, Sue continues her public service by chairing panels to appoint UK judges in addition to running her own businesses.  Sue's website - https://www.suemusson.com/    Sue on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/sue-musson-a0119416     FREE RESOURCE - How To Say No Challenge:  If you struggle to say ‘no' then this free 5 day challenge is for you.  You'll receive a short email each day containing a short video taking you through the 5 steps of my How To Say No framework. We'll get you happily saying no in just 5 days!  Access it at carlamillertraining.com/sayno    Influence & Impact:  Join the September cohort of Influence & Impact to learn how to tackle self-doubt, increase your impact and become brilliant at influencing.  It's a small cohort working closely with me and includes 6 workshops and 2 peer coaching sessions.  Find out more at https://carlamiller.co.uk/influence    Women Leading:  My Women Leading community gives you the support you need to:  ⭐ Set boundaries and expectations  ⭐ Prioritise your wellbeing  ⭐ Coach your hybrid team effectively  ⭐ Stop people pleasing   ⭐ Lead under pressure    You can read more and sign up here: https://www.carlamillertraining.com/womenleading       

Downtown boss Frank McKenna caught up with Rob Valentine, Region Director - Birmingham & West Midlands for Bruntwood SciTech. Bruntwood SciTech is the country's leading developer of city-wide innovation ecosystems, and the largest dedicated property platform for the UK knowledge economy.  Alongside a 50-year track record in the property industry, Bruntwood SciTech bring a wealth of experience in creating and developing strategic partnerships with UK regional cities, universities and NHS Trusts.   Find out more about Bruntwood SciTech visit their website. bruntwood.co.uk/scitech/

The time has come for us to sit down with some brothers and discuss dating, marriage, character development and ultimately explore the gender wars! In today's episode we sit down with two friends and great men in our lives; Claud & Kenny, to discuss how can men and women come to a place of understanding and friendship to build community and healthy platonic and romantic relationships.

Leadership is a key quality that all doctors need to posses. But sometime it is challenging to lead in a way that sits comfortably with you, whilst accepting the external reality. In this podcast, Ross tells me that authentic leadership is about specifically choosing the best response for a situation, based on what matters to each person as an individual. We talk about values, psychological flexibility, and he shares his top tips.Ross is an organisational and coaching psychologist. As a practitioner, he uses evidence-based psychology in all areas of his portfolio career. In his research role at City, University of London, he works alongside Dr Paul Flaxman in an academic/practitioner partnership where they design and deliver ACT Workplace Training for both the public and private sector. He also lectures in organisational psychology at City, University of London and Birkbeck. Nine years ago, he founded the start-up, People Soup, which aims to cultivate well-being, adaptability, meaningful action and awareness in organisations. He has designed and delivered evidence-based training to over 23 NHS Trusts, HM Treasury, Nectar Loyalty, teachers, a global tech company, a global drinks company, hedge fund managers and a variety of ballet companies and independent dancers. Prior to his portfolio career, he spent over 20 years in Senior HR roles in the UK Civil Service. He has a BSc (Hons) in psychology from the University of Dundee and Masters degrees in Human Resource Management and Organisational Psychology. He's a Fellow of the Chartered Institute for Personnel and Development (CIPD), the Association for Coaching and the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA). He's also the founder and host of the award winning People Soup Podcast - which aims to make behavioural science, accessible, useful and fun for adults at work.You can find all of Ross' links here - https://linktr.ee/PeopleSoupListen at https://matdaniel.net/podcast/; https://open.spotify.com/show/1j8uLaUU1g5bYTRVuwUX7j?si=672ec26a73164d7f; https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/doctors-at-work/id1701284564; or watch on www.youtube.com/@dr-coach/videos.Production: Shot by PolachekYou can find out more about Mat's coaching to help doctors create successful and meaningful careers at www.MatDaniel.net. 

The number of midwives in England has increased by just 7% over the last year and some NHS Trusts in England have more than one in five midwifery jobs vacant, according to BBC research. The Royal College of Midwives says staffing gaps have to close. The BBC's Health Correspondent Catherine Burns joins Clare McDonnell to talk about what her investigation into maternity units in England has discovered, and to share the story of Farzana, who had to give birth on her own after midwives said they were too busy to answer her calls.Carole Stone must have one of the best address books ever. A former producer of BBC Radio 4's Any Questions, for years Carole has run 'salons' and parties bringing together hundreds of interesting people - politicians, actors, journalists. Carole's partner, the TV broadcaster Richard Lindley, died four years ago. Carole joins Clare to discuss how and why she is looking for another soulmate at the age of 81. Could the next leader of North Korea be a woman? Clare gets the latest from lead correspondent at NK News, Jeongmin Kim, and hears more about what life is like for women on the ground with North Korea expert, Professor Hazel Smith.As the number of pupils missing a significant amount of their education is about double the level it was before the pandemic, Clare is joined by Ellie Costello, the executive director of Square Peg, a not-for-profit which helps families that struggle with school attendance. It's 60 years this week since Jackie, the magazine for teenage girls, was first published. At its peak, it was selling more than a million copies a week. To celebrate the anniversary, Clare is joined by Nina Myskow, Jackie's first female editor, and Wendy Rigg, a teenage fan who achieved her dream of working on Jackie.Presenter: Clare McDonnell Producer: Lottie Garton

This week on The Eastman Dental Podcast we are joined by Orthodontic Technician, James Green. James works between NHS Trusts who run the North Thames Regional Cleft Lip and Palate service, creating dental appliances. James is well published in the field and has been a part of the Orthodontic Technicians Association throughout his career. He has recently been awarded for an Outstanding contribution to the Field of Orthodontic Technology.

Special Guest: Aaron Betesta Aaron runs the team building brand ‘Laughtercise'. After two years of studying the team building market and delivering team building sessions, he believes that some approaches to team building are stuck in the 90s. At Laughtercise, they believe most team building and icebreaker resources on Google are poor, and are working hard to provide better. Their approach is to shake things up. They want to support people to take the forced out of forced fun and get rid of the cringe factor when it comes to team building activities. At Laughtercise, they deliver wild and fun team building sessions to organisations all over the UK. All the exhilaration of drinking games, but without the alcohol! They have also delivered over £10,000 worth of sessions, for free, to NHS Trusts and Charities. In this episode, Aaron wants to shake up your thinking when it comes to team building and team away days and provide you with creative insights. Most importantly, his  goal is to convince you to ditch the word ‘icebreaker' and never ever use it again! So, shall we break the ice…? The 6 Unusual Team Building Activities Icebreaker Research Host: Jo Dodds

Are you an IMG Medicine Doctor? If so, you've probably considered working in the NHS. It's an enviable dream but one that you'll need to work hard to achieve. You might be wondering if you are eligible and what you'll need to achieve in your career to make your dream a reality. Perhaps you aren't clear on the difference between your own healthcare system and the NHS. Or maybe you just need some help creating the perfect CV and preparing for your interview.In this incredible guide, my guest is Olivia Loizides. An expert in international medical recruitment specifically for Acute, General and Elderly Medicine Doctors. Liv has helped thousands of international doctors achieve their dream of working in the NHS and worked with over 100 NHS Trusts. It's easy to see what has made Liv such a prominent figure in international recruitment of Medicine doctors in to the NHS, when you hear the way she articulates complex issues and simplifies them so effectively. You'll leave this podcast behind, equipped and confident that you can achieve your goal of working in the NHS.Topics CoveredThe requirements for Medicine doctors working in the NHSThe types of Medicine doctor that will thrive in the UKThe key challenges facing IMG Doctors The difference between job titles and grades in the NHS vs InternationallyWhy specialist fields like Acute or Elderly Medicine might be better suited than General MedicineWhat makes SDEC a popular choice for IMG Medicine doctorsTop tips to make a Medicine CV stand out to an NHS clinicianThe most popular questions that come up in Medicine interviewsWhich jobs are best suited to IMGs Useful linksNHS Doctors' Job Titles ExplainedNHS Medical CV Template - DownloadMedicine NHS Interview Questions - DownloadContact Olivia and the Medicine TeamReach. Recruit. Relocate.BDI Resourcing are experts in international and domestic medical recruitment for the NHS. We have helped thousands of international doctors in to roles with more than 100 Hospital Trusts. We are always delighted to hear from international doctors who are considering a move to the UK and encourage you to contact us through any of our channels: Email Website - IMG Media YouTube Facebook Instagram LinkedIn

In this week's episode we share the three career defining pivots that brought Vishal to leading YouTube Health in the UK.  We discussed:

In this episode 211 of the podcast I bring you a run down from a case decided by the Employment Appeal Tribunal where the issue of making a change to employee contract terms was considered in the context of the employee's eligibility for an enhanced redundancy payment. The case we are covering is Jackson v The University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust [2023]. In this episode of the podcast we cover: The options available to employees if they disagree with a change to contract terms. The potential risks for employers of implementing changes without agreement. What employers should consider when making changes to contract terms. How a redundancy situation can arise when making changes to employee contract terms. Why redundancy applied in this case. The issue that often arises in NHS Trusts with enforced changes to roles and changes to Band ratings. Why employers need to consult with employees on changes to terms. The leading case of Hogg v Dover College   Training for your Team Would you like to arrange training for your team to reduce the risk of both unhappy employees and claims being made against you? Please get in touch for a no obligation discussion, we can offer training anywhere in the UK in person or delivered remotely via MS Teams. Please drop me an email alison@realemploymentlawadvice.co.uk     Fixed Price Advice from Real Experts As part of our HR Harbour annual subscription service for employers we provide guidance and training for employers, supervisors and managers. If you would like to know more about the HR Harbour Service and how you can get unlimited support from as little as £210 per month please contact me for a no obligation discussion – alison@realemploymentlawadvice.co.uk or you can find full details here: HR Harbour Don't forget you can contact us by telephone 01983 897003, 01722 653001, 020 3470 0007, 0191 375 9694 or 023 8098 2006 We have a variety of free documents and letters which are available to download here: DIY Documents We are also on YouTube! You can find a range of topics and also listen to this podcast on YouTube here: YOUTUBE

In this week's episode we share Keith's journey to discovering his tribe after 28 years of searching to building a successful career in digital health and innovation.   In this episode we discussed:   ⚕️ Motivations to Study Medicine

An estimated one in five new and expectant mums develop perinatal mental illnesses such as depression, post-traumatic stress disorder and psychosis, according to the Royal College of Psychiatrists. While every pregnant woman should be screened for mental health issues at their 10-week antenatal appointment, new data from NHS England shows one in six NHS Trusts are struggling to report if they are following the clinical guidelines. We hear from the Consultant Perinatal Psychiatrist Dr Trudi Seneviratne and Hayley Johnson a mum of two who experienced debilitating anxiety after the birth of her second child. When Sheilagh Matheson and her husband offered to house a mother and her daughters fleeing from Ukraine little did she know that the girls were musical prodigies and that their music would stop passers-by in the street. Sheilagh and 17-year-old Khrystyna tell us their story. The book ‘Honey, Baby, Mine' is a new joint project of mother/daughter actors Diane Ladd, and Laura Dern Working. It's based on a series of walks and talks taken when about four years ago Diane faced a serious threat to her health. Why does rejection hurt so much? The writer Kate Wills tells us about how her fear of rejection has held her back in life, and an experiment she did to try and cure it. Plus we hear from the Chartered psychologist Fiona Murden. The new BBC comedy drama Black Ops centres around Dom and Kay, two Police Community Support Officers in East London who join the Metropolitan police in the hope of cleaning up their neighbourhood. Instead they find themselves working undercover to infiltrate a criminal gang. We hear from its star, Gbemisola Ikumelo, Presenter: Anita Rani Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed Editor: Beverley Purcell

An estimated one in five new and expectant mums develops perinatal mental illnesses according to the Royal College of Psychiatrists. Whilst every pregnant woman should be screened for mental health issues at their 10-week antenatal appointment, new data from NHS England shows one in six NHS Trusts are struggling to report if they are doing so. Anita is joined by Dr Trudi Seneviratne, Consultant Perinatal Psychiatrist and Registrar of the Royal College of Psychiatrists and Hayley Johnson, a mum who experienced debilitating anxiety after giving birth. It's been a remarkable week for women's sport, with record breaking crowds. Anita is joined by one of the women on the Woman's Hour Power List 2023 who has been banging the drum of women's sport for over a decade, Tammy Parlour, co-founder and CEO of the Women's Sports Trust. For the first time, the May edition of British Vogue features disabled models on its cover.  One of these is Ellie Goldstein, the first model with Down's syndrome to ever star.  She is one of fashion's rising stars, advocating inclusivity across the industry. Anita talks to Ellie and her mum, Yvonne about Ellie's work. The British tradition of kneeler making, hand-stitching kneeling cushions in churches, is a type of folk art that has been long overlooked. The  earliest examples are from the 17th century and the reigns of Charles I and II.  Will the coronation of a new king revive interest in this languishing art?  Anita meets Elizabeth Bingham, author of Kneelers.   A new BBC six part comedy thriller Black Ops centres around Dom and Kay, two Police Community Support Officers in East London who join the Metropolitan police. In the hope of cleaning up their neighbourhood, they find themselves working undercover to infiltrate a criminal gang. Gbemisola Ikumelo, perhaps best known for the comedy sketch show Famalam is the co-creator. She talks to Anita about writing and starring in the series. Presenter: Anita Rani Producer: Rebecca Myatt Studio manager: Bob Nettles

In this second part of our two-part episode of Anaesthesia on Air, Sarah Thornton talks to Ian Roberts about his role within the Federation Internationale d'Automobile, (the FIA); as the Vice President of the Medical Commission and as Medical Rescue Coordinator for Formula 1 Motor Racing. In Part 2, Ian expands on his career in F1, and describes his role in Romain Grosjean's crash and fireball at the Bahrain GP in 2021. This episode is sponsored by Concentric, the market-leading digital consent application, used at more than 20 NHS Trusts.

In this week's episode Dr Gupta shares his journey to becoming an interventional radiologist. We delve into his passion for interventional vs diagnostic radiology. We discuss why radiology training has recently become so popular and his working/on-call week as a consultant. Dr Gupta shares why he is trying to change the culture of leaving on-time, a 4 day work week and life as a radiologist in Australia + why he came back to the UK.  Dr Neil Gupta is an IR consultant at UCHW, West Midlands IR Training Program Director & Academy IR Lead and Founder of Tirtl Connect with Dr Gupta ------------------------------------- Episode Sponsor: Locum's Nest The Locum's Nest app has been revolutionising the way NHS doctors are supported by technology since 2015 and is now wired across all NHS professions. On a mission to remove barriers to workforce mobility across the NHS, Locum's Nest has pioneered the formation of digital collaborative workforce banks across the country, enabling cross-covering of shifts across an ever-growing number of NHS Trusts. Currently the best-rated app for flexible working in the NHS, Locum's Nest is transforming shift work in the NHS into a more inclusive and fulfilling experience by giving healthcare professionals ownership and control of their work life balance. Download the app Now: Apple App Store & Google Play Store Manage your shifts, your rosters and your pay all from one secure place! https://locumsnest.co.uk/healthcare-professionals ------------------------------------- Check out Peerr Peerr gives creators the tools to create and publish content, build an audience and earn money in ONE-CLICK. ✍️ Publish articles or blogs, courses and coaching sessions on one profile

It seems you can't switch on your TV or pick up your phone these days without being assailed by headlines lamenting the crisis in our NHS. Whether it's nurses going on strike, long wait times for operations, ambulances queuing outside hospitals, or stories of a social care system on the verge of collapse…. There is undoubtedly a crisis in our health and care sector, but are we getting the whole picture, and are we hearing enough about what's being done by the people in charge to try and put things right? A new podcast series from Newcross Healthcare called Voices of Care has launched intending to do precisely that, giving leaders and experts from NHS Trusts, Health Boards, and care associations a chance to share their thoughts on the challenges facing the sector and explain how they are striving to give the workforce…whether its nurses, carers, doctors or administrators….the tools and the support they need to deliver high-quality care. Suhail Mirza has 20 years of experience as a Provider, Writer, and Speaker. He is the author of the LaingBuisson UK Healthcare Workforce Report, a wellness speaker and coach supporting the NHS workforce, and a Non-Executive Director on the Board of Newcross Healthcare  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this week's episode Jess shares her journey into building a healthtech communication agency despite never being entrepreneurial. We delve into her non-conventional route and why her creativity + PR experiences served well for SomX.  We discuss the importance of having a value driven approach and why branding it's more than just a logo! Jess shares the difficult first few months after starting SomX, why her confidence comes from other people and why she can ‘turn it on' as a natural introvert.  Jessica is co-founder & CXO of SomX, a healthtech and biotech-specific communications group. She is also an editor and regular host for Healthtech Pigeon. Previously an Associate Director at global agency, FleishmanHillard, Jessica has extensive experience across the healthcare ecosystem as well as in consumer health, healthtech, medical devices and pharmaceuticals.  Connect with Jess ------------------------------------- Episode Sponsor: Locum's Nest The Locum's Nest app has been revolutionising the way NHS doctors are supported by technology since 2015 and is now wired across all NHS professions. On a mission to remove barriers to workforce mobility across the NHS, Locum's Nest has pioneered the formation of digital collaborative workforce banks across the country, enabling cross-covering of shifts across an ever-growing number of NHS Trusts. Currently the best-rated app for flexible working in the NHS, Locum's Nest is transforming shift work in the NHS into a more inclusive and fulfilling experience by giving healthcare professionals ownership and control of their work life balance. Download the app Now: Apple App Store & Google Play Store Manage your shifts, your rosters and your pay all from one secure place! https://locumsnest.co.uk/healthcare-professionals ------------------------------------- Check out Peerr Peerr gives creators the tools to create and publish content, build an audience and earn money in ONE-CLICK. ✍️ Publish articles or blogs, courses and coaching sessions on one profile

Hello Intrepid Leaders!!! Welcome to the first episode of Series 2 of the Leadership Log Podcast! In this episode we are going to chatting about courageous leadership with the Bethan Davies, Co-Founder of The Bravest Path , a courage building consultancy Bethan spent the first 15 years of her career in Tech and Insurance developing and coaching leaders in- house in regional and global leadership development positions. She co-founded the Bravest Path to bring a different approach to developing individuals and organisational cultures, helping leaders take more smart risks, develop empathy, and deeply connect with their people to achieve audacious goals. They develop courage, compassion and connection through psycho-educational workshops, webinars, coaching and cultural transformation. Bethan brings a warm, empathetic, and insightful approach, focused on how clients can leverage their strengths to support their development and specialises in helping leaders be bolder, self- compassionate and authentic, letting go of perfectionism and imposter syndrome to build greater courage and confidence. Her recent work includes keynotes at NHS Trusts on “Cultivating Courage and Compassion” developing empathetic and authentic leaders through individual and cultural transformation. She is currently partnering with FNF and NHS England on national webinars aiding the retention and engagement of newly registered nurses and midwives. Bethan designed and facilitated global leadership programmes at Microsoft and BP, coaching senior leaders to develop their people leaders and top talent. She regularly facilities Braver than Before TM delivered in NHS Trusts, developing self compassion, resilience and courage in clinicians. Having lived in San Francisco and facilitated multinational programmes in 15+ countries, she enjoys working across cultures and is quick to establish inclusive, appreciative, and stretching learning environments. Follow Bethan on Twitter: @BravestPath We would encourage you to tune in and listen to our back catalogue of shows! Keep up to date and follow @leadership_log on Twitter. Our DMs are always open. If you do tweet about us don't forget to use these hashtags to help us follow the conversations: #EverydayLeadership #GoWithTheFlo #DigiTell #LetsGetDigiTell Follow and subscribe to our shows on anchor or you can find them on all the MAJOR podcast platforms For more information or if you would like to record an episode with us then please drop us an e-mail at: theleadershiplog@gmail.com Disclaimer Thanks for listening to the leadership log where we are navigating everyday leadership. This is a non affiliated podcast in any views, thoughts and opinions expressed by the hosts or guests belong solely to them, and not necessarily to their employer, organization, committee or other group or individual

In this week's episode Elliot shares his journey from avid tennis player to medical doctor + inventor (starting in his bedroom!). We hear the founding story of Inovus Medical and why he is so passionate about a problem-first approach to technology. Elliot shares his experience and the problems he saw with existing surgical training and why he had to go all-in to build the future of surgical training.  We discuss life as an entrepreneur, foundation training and why he believes focus and consistency is the key for success. In this jam packed episode we delve into the difficulties of running a business, selling to the NHS, fundraising and all things entrepreneurship.  Dr Elliot Street is an award-winning clinician and the co-founder and CEO of Inovus Medical, a multi award winning designer and manufacturer of surgical training technology. He is an alumnus and mentor on the NHS Clinical Entrepreneur Programme, holds a position on the Liverpool City Region Innovation Board and is a recent graduate of the Goldman Sachs 10,000 small business programme. Connect with Dr Elliot Street ------------------------------------- Episode Sponsor: Locum's Nest The Locum's Nest app has been revolutionising the way NHS doctors are supported by technology since 2015 and is now wired across all NHS professions. On a mission to remove barriers to workforce mobility across the NHS, Locum's Nest has pioneered the formation of digital collaborative workforce banks across the country, enabling cross-covering of shifts across an ever-growing number of NHS Trusts. Currently the best-rated app for flexible working in the NHS, Locum's Nest is transforming shift work in the NHS into a more inclusive and fulfilling experience by giving healthcare professionals ownership and control of their work life balance. Download the app Now: Apple App Store & Google Play Store Manage your shifts, your rosters and your pay all from one secure place! https://locumsnest.co.uk/healthcare-professionals ------------------------------------- Check out Peerr Where Healthcare professionals Learn, Share Knowledge and Earn Money! ✍️ Create quizzes or publish Blogs + Articles

Roy Lilley started his first enterprise from scratch over half a century ago. In 1989, his multi-million pound business was sold to fellow directors and managers. As a policy advisor and visiting fellow at Imperial College, London, he helped start the Health Services Management School at Nottingham University and was founder of the Federation of NHS Trusts, which became today's NHS Confederation. For over ten years now, Roy has written an e-letter (a bitesize podcast series) that reaches 300,000 health and care managers in the UK and overseas. A former chairman of Homewood NHS Trust in Surrey and former mayor of his borough council there, Roy Lilley has a wealth of public administration experience and has written for the Guardian, the Sunday Times, the Daily Telegraph and a number of other newspapers and periodicals. He is also a regular columnist in Pharmaceutical Marketing Magazine. He is a refreshingly honest and open man and willing to debate issues thoroughly. His enthusiasm and passion for the National Health Service is clear for all to see, and his comparative knowledge of healthcare systems is instructive; for example, he points out that Britain has proportionally far less management in healthcare than France or the USA. In a relaxed and frank interview, UK Column Nursing Correspondent Debi Evans talks to Roy about the current crisis in the NHS. Debi, a retired State Registered Nurse and a self-described old-school Ward Sister, also served for five years as a UK Government Advisor at the Department of Health and Social Care. Her conversation with Roy goes back to the days when hospitals were places full of flowers, nurses attended the sick in starched uniforms, and relatives were the real ‘regulators'; and when smiles, reassurance and tender loving care was a given, free at the point of contact. Fast forward to 2022 and digitisation, artificial intelligence and data gathering appears to have taken over from good old healthcare. Gone are the days when a nurse would hold your hand and take your pulse; today, you're likely to be scanned with an iPad. What is the state of the health of the NHS? Will the NHS Long Term Plan work? Is the NHS in a terminal condition, or can it be saved? If it can be saved, who will save it? This is the first of a series of interviews with Roy Lilley. UK Column looks forward to the next instalment of the Roy and Debi's common-sense NHS conversations. 

Three times voted the top speaker on NHS topics, Roy Lilley visits more than 20 NHS establishments a year and travels the UK and the world talking about healthcare, management and policy.

 He says, "Healthcare is my interest, my challenge, my passion and I am lucky to be involved with the professionals who make our lives healthier, our families safer and each of us proud of what we do."

In this week's episode Dr Nikki, known as The Female Money Doctor shares her story from burnout to wealth expert, and why she now helps millennial and Gen-x women feel better about money. We delve into why she left O&G as an ST4 trainee, her own struggles with debt and the moment she knew she had to learn financial literacy.  We discuss how to manage finances as a junior doctor, how to start taking control of debt and why we need to build good money habits.  She has experienced first-hand the impact poor money management skills have on the mental and physical health of her patients and colleagues, and is on a mission to change that! Connect with Dr Nikki - An NHS GP and women's health specialist with over 10+ years of experience, a money coach with an award winning blog. ONLY doctor to be featured in the top 25 feedspot list of Personal Finance Blogs in the UK. https://thefemalemoneydoctor.com/ ------------------------------------- Episode Sponsor: Locum's Nest The Locum's Nest app has been revolutionising the way NHS doctors are supported by technology since 2015 and is now wired across all NHS professions. On a mission to remove barriers to workforce mobility across the NHS, Locum's Nest has pioneered the formation of digital collaborative workforce banks across the country, enabling cross-covering of shifts across an ever-growing number of NHS Trusts. Currently the best-rated app for flexible working in the NHS, Locum's Nest is transforming shift work in the NHS into a more inclusive and fulfilling experience by giving healthcare professionals ownership and control of their work life balance. Download the app Now: Apple App Store & Google Play Store Manage your shifts, your rosters and your pay all from one secure place! https://locumsnest.co.uk/healthcare-professionals ------------------------------------- Check out Peerr Where Healthcare professionals Learn, Share Knowledge and Earn Money! ✍️ Create quizzes or publish Blogs + Articles

In part two of this podcast Dr Alastair Thompson, fellow of the RCP, consultant paediatrician and expert in medico-legal work is joined by Jenny Tetlow, a solicitor who represents claimants in clinical negligence claims. They explore the process by which clinical negligence claims are managed by NHS Trusts, record keeping and how we can learn from mistakes. Profile link for Jenny Tetlow Sound credit: bensound.com

Grief comes to all of us at one stage or another and so Michelle and Liz wanted to tackle the subject head-on with the CEO and Founder of The Good Grief Trust, Linda Magistris. Join them as they discuss everything from the lack of support for bereaved families to dealing with both the shorter and longer-term impact of losing someone close to you. They also explore the reasons why death is such a taboo subject in the modern world and why it needs to change. KEY TAKEAWAYS  There is a lack of centralised support in the health industry for bereavement. Health professionals are very inconsistent in the support and resources they offer to people suffering from grief. Dealing with death isn't just what happens after you have lost someone. Pre-bereavement support can be invaluable. When founding The Good Grief Trust, Linda recognised that she needed to take things online. So that she could tailor support for every situation as well as keep them continually up to date. Linda's media background reassured her that she would be able to get a lot of great recognition and support for the charity for free. To date, she has some incredible patrons of the charity including actor Dame Penelope Wilton DBE and former Wham member Shirlie kemp as well as Linda's former co-star on Grange Hill Todd Carty, and actor, Greg Wise. Connecting various organizations and groups together was one of Linda's main drives in building The Good Grief Trust. So that everyone could work together to create a strong network of support for anyone and everyone that needs it. There are so many different forms and types of grief, it is essential people get tailored support for what they are going through. We often don't know how to support those around us suffering from grief, but being compassionate and kind can mean the world to someone, even if you don't have the right words. There is no timeline for grief. It can also change. What you might need one day might be totally different a week or even an hour later. People need compassion, patience and understanding. BEST MOMENTS  “If the health professionals don't know of the big national charities, they need to have that information, they need to know what is available for everyone” “Bereavement is everyone's business. Bereavement is something that all of us are going to experience at one time” “There is no timeline for grief” “There's an absolute lack of kindness and understanding” “Your grief is unique” EPISODE RESOURCES   The Good Grief Trust The Good Grief Trust YouTube ABOUT THE GUEST     Linda Magistris Linda first met her partner Graham Theakston when she was an actress in the original cast of Grange Hill in 1978. Graham was one of the directors and by chance, they met again 30 years later. She had been running a portfolio of businesses since they first worked together, from a Wedding Consultancy to Vintage Tea Rooms, and Graham was a BAFTA-winning success in TV and Film and they spent 8 very happy years together until sadly he was diagnosed with a rare soft tissue sarcoma, an aggressive form of cancer, and died five and half months later. After his death, Linda struggled to cope with her grief, with limited access or knowledge around the support services that could help her individual needs.  She realised that the UK did not have one central signposting resource to help health professionals in their work supporting the bereaved and so in 2016 The Good Grief Trust charity and website was launched.  The Good Grief Trust is now the UK's leading bereavement network, with over 900 charities and support services under one umbrella.   Their condolence and signposting card is distributed to all NHS Trusts in England, GP practices, community services and those working with the bereaved and the charity has developed a vast, interactive and supportive community across their extensive social platforms.  They are Secretariat and co-founder of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Bereavement Support, working with Government to influence improvement to UK bereavement care and creator of the National Grief Awareness Week campaign. Linda's vision is to ensure that no-one who is grieving falls through the net, and that anyone bereaved under any circumstance knows they are not alone and that there is help and hope for a way forward with their life.  ‘Grief can be complicated, but access to support should never be' ABOUT THE HOSTS Liz Copping is a Networking Pro & event consultant, leaping out of her comfort zone to co-host this podcast. Lizcopping@outlook.com Michelle Ford is a professional voice actor and empty nester pressing the reset button in midlife and enjoying a new career in podcasting! michelleford1000@gmail.com CONTACT METHOD https://www.instagram.com/twowomenchatting/ https://twitter.com/ChattingTwo https://www.facebook.com/twowomenchatting PODCAST DESCRIPTION Join hosts Liz and Michelle redefining life over 50 as empty nesters, embracing the highs and lows of midlife with celebrity guests and experts, sharing a laugh on their podcast sofa. We talk about real concerns, issues and fun topics that affect us, our friends, and our family.  Midlife is not just about the menopause (although we'd be the first to admit it's right up there!) but it is a time of adventure, change and reset - with plenty of opportunities and challenges along the way.  Whether we're chatting about ‘boomerang kids', diet failures (and occasional successes!), pro-ageing, travel, changing relationships or inspiration for new jobs or activities, there's always room for one more on our sofa.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In the previous episode, you had a chance to listen to  Dr Phil Koczan, GP in North East London and the Chief Clinical Safety Officer for London, Dr Katherine Buxton, Consultant in Palliative Care Medicine for Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and Clinical Director, Palliative and End of Life Care Strategic Clinical Network for London talk about the recently introduced digitized urgent care planning across London.  OneLondon is a project that supports a vision of joined-up health and care. It is a pan-London collaboration between leaders from the 5 Integrated Care Systems in the capital.  London's healthcare system is complex. It covers a population of 10 million people and is connecting 35 NHS Trusts and 1385 GP practices.  In this episode, Gary McAllister, Chief Technology Officer of OneLondon explains how is London approaching the digital transformation of healthcare in London, how complex is the IT infrastructure at the moment, and how the core team of OneLondon works with vendors to try to connect different systems as efficiently as possible. More about OneLondon: https://www.onelondon.online/ More about Urgent Care Planning: https://ucp.onelondon.online/ MONTHLY Newsletter which recaps episodes in the past month: https://fodh.substack.com/ www.facesofdigitalhealth.com ***** The topic of this episode is supported by Better - a provider of an open data digital health platform, electronic prescribing and medication administration solution, and low code tools that help you rapidly build applications that suit your needs. The company focuses on simplifying the work of health and care teams, advocates for data for life, and strives for all health data to be vendor-neutral and easily accessible. More about the company: better.care

Recorded 7 October 2022  In this episode, Russell Ampofo speaks with Dr Desire Onwochei, Dr Daniel Olaiya and Dr Sekina Bakare about what Black History Month means to them. They discuss the different approaches taken by NHS Trusts to celebrate the month, disparities in healthcare outcomes, and how to encourage more Black medical students and foundation doctors to join the specialty. 

Too often, patients need to repeat their medical history when in contact with different healthcare providers. Consequently, clinicians need more time to make decisions than necessary because they can't access patient data. London managed to digitize urgent care plans and make them available across 40 NHS Trusts and 1400 GP offices.  This episode presents the Urgent Care Plan Programme, aiming at giving clinicians easy access to patients' desires about their care, as defined in their care plan. Patients can fill out an urgent care plan at various points in their patient journey. The problem so far has been that accessing these plans by different providers was often difficult. Now the situation is improved with an introduction of a regional platform that stores urgent care plans and enables different care teams to access them when needed.  Urgent Care Plan Programme is a part of OneLondon Portfolio. OneLondon is a project that supports a vision of joined-up health and care. It is a pan-London collaboration between leaders from the 5 Integrated Care Systems in the capital.   London's healthcare system is complex. It covers a population of 10 million people and is connecting 35 NHS Trusts and 1385 GP practices. As part of the OneLondon portfolio, the Urgent Care Plan Programme led the design and implementation of a new digital care planning solution in 2021. This solution enables Londoners to have their care, and support wishes digitally shared with healthcare professionals across the capital. By connecting all care levels, clinicians can now easily access urgent care plans to guide them in the care they provide to patients based on patient's individual preferences.  This episode presents what urgent care plans are, why they matter, and more as explained by Dr Phil Koczan, GP in North East London, and the Chief Clinical Safety Officer for London, Dr Katherine Buxton, Consultant in Palliative Care Medicine for Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and Clinical Director, Palliative and End of Life Care Strategic Clinical Network for London. They explained what the joint urgent care plan means for patients and healthcare providers in London.  More about OneLondon: https://www.onelondon.online/ More about Urgent Care Planning: https://ucp.onelondon.online/ MONTHLY Newsletter which recaps episodes in the past month: https://fodh.substack.com/ www.facesofdigitalhealth.com The topic of this episode is supported by Better - a provider of an open data digital health platform, electronic prescribing and medication administration solution, and low code tools that help you rapidly build applications that suit your needs. The company focuses on simplifying the work of health and care teams, advocates for data for life, and strives for all health data to be vendor-neutral and easily accessible. More about the company: better.care

In this episode of the SOL Podcast, our guest is Joshua Sprigg, Founder & CEO of Enferm.Founded in 2015, Enferm is a Total Healthcare Workforce Solution. They are a nursing and healthcare staffing agency that works with NHS Trusts, third sector and private sector organisations. Their candidate-first approach coupled with their expertise and extensive knowledge aims to disrupt the healthcare industry for the better. Joshua says, “We solve problems together, not in isolation,” and we had a deeply insightful chat about characteristics of company culture, teamwork, vision, designing a team around company culture and values, impacts of past experiences whilst becoming an entrepreneur, developing solutions and technologies according to the current needs, the intricacies of being self-funded vs investment. Listen to our podcast if you want to learn more about and get inspired by another London startup's journey.

In this week's episode Dr Lemma shares his journey from pharmacy to medicine and why his building a career in clinical innovation. We discuss his passions for entrepreneurship and radiology, the moment when he hit rock bottom, and how he has built a job role he loves. Gedeon delves into how he discovered innovation, the role as an innovation fellow and lecturer and why it is so important for the NHS to embrace it. We learn the importance of building a personal brand and tips for students/clinicians interested in innovation as well as having a competitive portfolio for radiology. Gedeon has over 10 years clinical experience working in the NHS, having started as a pharmacist before transitioning into medicine. He is currently an ST1 Radiology trainee in Merseyside and combines his clinical training with a Clinical Fellow in Innovation role at Alder Hey Innovation. He co-developed and teaches the health tech undergraduate medical curriculum at the University of Liverpool; has been part of NHS Clinical Entrepreneur network since 2019, and provides clinical mentorship to fast-growing startups through GE Healthcare & Wayra UK Edison Accelerator. Learn More about Dr Gedeon Twitter - @glemma7 LinkedIn - gedeonlemma Article - "I want a career in Innovation" ------------------------------------- Episode Sponsor: Locum's Nest The Locum's Nest app has been revolutionising the way NHS doctors are supported by technology since 2015 and is now wired across all NHS professions. On a mission to remove barriers to workforce mobility across the NHS, Locum's Nest has pioneered the formation of digital collaborative workforce banks across the country, enabling cross-covering of shifts across an ever-growing number of NHS Trusts. Currently the best-rated app for flexible working in the NHS, Locum's Nest is transforming shift work in the NHS into a more inclusive and fulfilling experience by giving healthcare professionals ownership and control of their work life balance. Download the app Now: Apple App Store & Google Play Store Manage your shifts, your rosters and your pay all from one secure place! https://locumsnest.co.uk/healthcare-professionals ------------------------------------- Check out our latest platform Peerr Where healthcare professionals learn from the best educators - your peers! ✍️ Make your own quizzes and study notes for revision

The quality of hospital food around the country remains a very mixed picture, despite various initiatives over the last decades. But now there is real optimism around a major Independent Review of NHS Hospital Food in England, published in 2020. Sheila Dillon looks at the barriers that have been holding back progress, and talks to Prue Leith, an Independent Advisor for the review, about the latest on progress with carrying through its recommendations. Sheila meets catering teams at the Northern General Hospital in Sheffield, and the Royal Blackburn Teaching hospital, both part of a group of pioneering ‘exemplar' NHS Trusts that are doing things differently with hospital meals, to find out how they're building a model that others can follow. Presented by Sheila Dillon and produced by Sophie Anton for BBC Audio in Bristol.

In this week's episode Ollie shares his journey to becoming an Academic Foundation Doctor after studying graduate medicine at Warwick University, we discover his passion for neurosurgery and how he is building a competitive portfolio. We delve into his role as a content creator and the transparency of information he shares online, including the kickbacks he faces. We discuss his new role at the BMA council, the reality of being a junior doctor in the UK and why goodwill within the workforce will only go so far in the future of the NHS.  Dr Ollie Burton is an academic foundation year doctor with interests in clinical neurosciences and neurosurgery, as well as medical education, he also serves on the BMA council 22-26.  YouTube:OllieBurtonMed Instagram: @ollieburtonmed ------------------------------------- Episode Sponsor: Locum's Nest The Locum's Nest app has been revolutionising the way NHS doctors are supported by technology since 2015 and is now wired across all NHS professions. On a mission to remove barriers to workforce mobility across the NHS, Locum's Nest has pioneered the formation of digital collaborative workforce banks across the country, enabling cross-covering of shifts across an ever-growing number of NHS Trusts. Currently the best-rated app for flexible working in the NHS, Locum's Nest is transforming shift work in the NHS into a more inclusive and fulfilling experience by giving healthcare professionals ownership and control of their work life balance. Download the app Now: Apple App Store & Google Play Store Manage your shifts, your rosters and your pay all from one secure place! https://locumsnest.co.uk/healthcare-professionals ------------------------------------- Check out our latest platform Peerr Where healthcare professionals learn from the best educators - your peers! ✍️ Make your own quizzes and study notes for revision

In this week's episode Jess shares her journey into medical school despite being rejected the first time, her passion for leveling the playing field and her love for side hustles. We delve into her pursuit for building a passport career within medicine, her incredible e-books which are helping doctors with the process of re-locating and med students get funding including why she still wants to be a doctor!    We discuss her life as a medical student sharing insights on social media and more recently her MPhil at Cambridge University. Jess shares her advice for other medics who wish to follow a similar pursuit. Jessica O'Logbon is a Medical Student at King's College London, currently doing an MPhil at Cambridge University. She is the founder of Progress with Jess, a platform where she explores the diverse routes available within a career in healthcare. She has been involved in healthcare leadership, innovation and research, and continuously strive to make a change in my local and global communities.  Check out her blog posts and e-books helping you fulfill your potential at medical school and beyond! https://www.progresswithjess.co.uk/ Instagram: @jess.olo ------------------------------------- Episode Sponsor: Locum's Nest The Locum's Nest app has been revolutionising the way NHS doctors are supported by technology since 2015 and is now wired across all NHS professions. On a mission to remove barriers to workforce mobility across the NHS, Locum's Nest has pioneered the formation of digital collaborative workforce banks across the country, enabling cross-covering of shifts across an ever-growing number of NHS Trusts. Currently the best-rated app for flexible working in the NHS, Locum's Nest is transforming shift work in the NHS into a more inclusive and fulfilling experience by giving healthcare professionals ownership and control of their work life balance. Download the app Now: Apple App Store & Google Play Store Manage your shifts, your rosters and your pay all from one secure place! https://locumsnest.co.uk/healthcare-professionals ------------------------------------- Check out our latest platform Peerr Where healthcare professionals learn from the best educators - your peers! ✍️ Make your own quizzes for revision - An invaluable learning tool

In this week's episode Dr Ed shares his journey from medical school to becoming a surgeon in the military. We delve into life as a trainee and the realisation of no longer enjoying a surgical career. Ed shares his own personal journey with tinnitus and the military patients he met suffering from the same condition who needed help. We talk about the founding story of Oto, a CBT app to help patients with tinnitus take control through self-therapy. Ed shares how we got onto the prestigious Y-combinator with a last minute application. We hear the difficulties and barriers he faced so far in his journey, sharing tips and advice for future clinical entrepreneurs. Dr Edmund Farrar is the CEO and co-founder of Oto, with an interest in digital self-therapy for overlooked & underserved chronic conditions. Ed is a NHS clinical entrepreneur, and a core surgical trainee in the RAF.  LinkedIn: Edmundfarrar https://www.joinoto.com/ ------------------------------------- Episode Sponsor: Locum's Nest The Locum's Nest app has been revolutionising the way NHS doctors are supported by technology since 2015 and is now wired across all NHS professions. On a mission to remove barriers to workforce mobility across the NHS, Locum's Nest has pioneered the formation of digital collaborative workforce banks across the country, enabling cross-covering of shifts across an ever-growing number of NHS Trusts. Currently the best-rated app for flexible working in the NHS, Locum's Nest is transforming shift work in the NHS into a more inclusive and fulfilling experience by giving healthcare professionals ownership and control of their work life balance. Download the app Now: Apple App Store & Google Play Store Manage your shifts, your rosters and your pay all from one secure place! https://locumsnest.co.uk/healthcare-professionals ------------------------------------- Check out our latest platform Peerr Where healthcare professionals learn from the best educators - your peers! ✍️ Make your own quizzes for revision - An invaluable learning tool

Welcome to Valuable Conversations with the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose. Today's guest is Rowan Conway, our instructor for the MPA module Transformation by Design. MPA alumni Níckolas Laport and Justin Beirold talk to Rowan about her circuitous journey to becoming a renowned expert in strategic design and public policy. We discuss her education and early career, and how she got involved with the London Olympics in 2012. We also talk about her work as Director of Innovation at the RSA, how she joined IIPP and became head of the Mission-Oriented Innovation Network(MOIN), and the challenges of participatory design. We hope you enjoy this conversation! Guest Bio: Until very recently, Rowan was head of the Mission-Oriented Innovation Network MOIN at IIPP. MOIN brings together leading global policy-making institutions – including state investment banks, innovation agencies, cities and government departments to share the challenges and opportunities they face when trying to create and nurture public value. As part of her work at the Institute, Rowan teaches strategic design and is module lead and course lecturer for the MPA module Transformation by Design. Prior to joining UCL, Rowan was Director of Innovation at the Royal Society of Arts (RSA) where she set up the RSA Lab, an experimental space that uses design methods to explore, prototype and test research insights and policy ideas with government agencies, NGOs, academic partners, NHS Trusts, businesses and social enterprises. She designed and led a range of action research programmes on the future of work, deliberative democracy, tech and society, circular economy and systems innovation. Prior to that, she has 15 years experience leading a wide range of design and engagement processes, notably the community participation in the design process for London 2012 Olympic Park. She holds an MSc in Responsibility and Business Practice from the University of Bath and is a PhD Candidate at IIPP. - Read more about Rowan from the IIPP: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/public-purpose/people/rowan-conway - Follow Rowan on Twitter: @RowanEConway Learn about our MPA alumni hosts: -Níckolas Laport: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/public-purpose/nickolas-laport -Justin Beirold (Link) https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/public-purpose/justin-beirold Follow IIPP on Twitter: @IIPP_UCL https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/public-purpose/ Production and music by Justin Beirold For all podcast-related feedback and inquiries, please email justin.beirold.20@ucl.ac.uk

This week James shares his journey from dentistry to investing, wealth creation and crypto. In this jam packed episode we delve into his passion to help dentists succeed as he educates them about financial literacy, investing and building wealth. We discuss how he built a super popular and active FB group with more than 7.2k+ followers and how ‘Dentists who Invest' has grown from a personal problem he faced to now courses, podcasts and even an NFT project! Tune in as we discuss the value of time, money and why it is so important to give value without expecting nothing in return. James also shares why compounding is not just for wealth building but applies for people, connections and skills.  Dr James Martin is a dentist and the founder of ‘Dentists who Invest' whose core mission is to create and share resources specifically created to lead the dental network towards a more financially independent and profitable lifestyle.  Learn more: Dr James Martin - Instagram  DWI FB Group https://www.dentistswhoinvest.com ------------------------------------- Episode Sponsor: Locum's Nest The Locum's Nest app has been revolutionising the way NHS doctors are supported by technology since 2015 and is now wired across all NHS professions. On a mission to remove barriers to workforce mobility across the NHS, Locum's Nest has pioneered the formation of digital collaborative workforce banks across the country, enabling cross-covering of shifts across an ever-growing number of NHS Trusts. Currently the best-rated app for flexible working in the NHS, Locum's Nest is transforming shift work in the NHS into a more inclusive and fulfilling experience by giving healthcare professionals ownership and control of their work life balance. Download the app Now: Apple App Store & Google Play Store Manage your shifts, your rosters and your pay all from one secure place! https://locumsnest.co.uk/healthcare-professionals ------------------------------------- Check out our latest platform Peerr Where healthcare professionals learn from the best educators - your peers! ✍️ Make your own quizzes for revision - An invaluable learning tool

In a world exclusive, today Kate Bush gives Emma Barnett her reaction to being discovered by a new generation and making it to number 1 in the UK singles charts 44 years after her first chart-topper Wuthering Heights. Running Up That Hill was first released in 1985 and its use in the Netflix hit series Stranger Things has made Kate Bush a social media and streaming sensation. We also speak to Caitlin Moran about how rare it is to hear from Kate and why she is inspired by her songs. A report out today has found that the number of abortions has increased over the course of the pandemic. The cost of living has been cited as a key factor for this rise at an uncertain time in the economy and with job insecurity. Mary-Ann Stephenson is co-director of the Women's Budget Group, an independent body which analyses the impact of government policy on women. A decision is also expected any day from the US Supreme Court on whether to overturn Roe v Wade – the historic 1973 ruling which has guaranteed women access to abortion nationwide. At the centre of this legal challenge, is a woman who is being hailed by some as the lawyer who could end Roe v Wade. She is the Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch…and the BBC's Holly Honderich joins Emma to explain more. Twice as many women than men are receiving electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) according to researchers at the University of East London. ECT is used to treat a range of mental health issues including severe depression, long-lasting mania, and catatonia. But an FOI request to twenty NHS Trusts has also revealed that older women are also more likely to be receiving treatment. They are concerned it causes memory loss and that patients are not given sufficient information to make informed decisions before they give consent to treatment. Emma is joined by one of the lead researchers, clinical psychologist Dr Chris Harrop and by Dr Trudi Seneviratne, Registrar of the Royal College of Psychiatry. Emma speaks to the writer, DJ and broadcaster, Annie Mac on what has been a big week for music. They discuss Beyonce's new single, Break My Soul, which marks a change of musical genre for her as it's a House track. They talk about the history of house music and it's cultural shifts and about Kate Bush and Glastonbury 2022.

Coaching Uncaged Season 12, Episode 10: Dr. Peter Hawkins: Coaching and Climate Change In this episode of Coaching Uncaged, our host, Coach and Positive Psychologist Yannick Jacob, is joined by Dr. Peter Hawkins. Peter Hawkins, Chairman of Renewal Associates, co-founder of the Global Team Coaching Institute, Emeritus Professor of Leadership at Henley Business School, and Senior Visiting Fellow, Civil Service College (Singapore), is a leading consultant, coach, writer and researcher in organisational strategy, leadership, culture change, team and board development and coaching. He has worked with many leading organisations all over the world including Europe, Asia, Middle East, South Africa, and America coaching Executive Teams and Boards and facilitating major change and organisational transformation projects. He has coached over 100 boards and senior executive teams, enabling them to develop their purpose, vision, values, collective leadership and strategy for the future, in a wide range of international, large and small commercial companies, government departments, NHS Trusts, professional services organisations and charities. Peter is an international thought leader in Systemic Coaching, Executive Teams and Board Development, President of both the Association of Professional Executive Coaching and Supervision (www.apecs.org ); and the Academy of Executive Coaching (www.aoec.com) and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and the Windsor Leadership Trust. He has been a keynote speaker at many international conferences on the learning organisation, leadership and executive coaching and teaches and leads masterclasses in over 50 different countries round the world. He is the author of many best-selling books and papers in the fields of Leadership, Board and Team Coaching, Systemic Coaching, Supervision and Organizational Transformation (including Leadership Team Coaching, Kogan Page; 2011 (4th edition, 2021); Leadership Team Coaching in Practice (3rd edition 2022, Systemic Coaching (with Eve Turner (Routledge 2020); Coaching, Mentoring and Organizational Consultancy: Supervision, Skills and Development (with Nick Smith), McGraw-Hill/Open University Press, (2nd ed, 2013); Creating a Coaching Culture, McGraw Hill, 2012; and The Wise Fool's Guide to Leadership, O Books, 2005; Supervision in the Helping Professions (5th edition 2020 with Aisling McMahon) McGraw Hill and Integrative Psychotherapy (2020 with Judy Ryde) Jessica Kingsley. Peter was joint founder, in 1986, of Bath Consultancy Group and its chairman until the company was sold in 2010 and has chaired three other company boards as well as being a trustee director of several charities. He lives on the edge of Bath UK with 37 acres which he shares, with many animals and trees as well as his children and grandchildren and leaders who come on courses and retreats.

In this week's episode we are joined by Arron who shares his journey from doctor to coder, and his philosophy of living outside the box. We delve into the early years of his career, his love and passion for coding. Arron shares how he developed his coding skills from scratch while an FY1 to building an antibiotic calculator app to more recently an EPR simulator. We delve into the founding story of CodeMed and their vision to equip healthcare professionals the skills to be at the forefront of digital innovation in the NHS.  Arron shares his insights into why being a doctor has incredible value and the opportunities that arise as a result, advising us to avoid developing a limited mindset.  Dr Arron Thind is a GP trainee at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, an NHS Clinical Entrepreneur, DigitalHealth.London Fellow and a clinical tutor at Kings College London. Prior to entering GP training, he was Deputy Lead of Emerging Technology for the UK Government's Department of Health and Social Care.  Arron is the co-founder of Code Med: a startup which teaches clinicians and medical students across the UK how to code, empowering them with the skills to transform healthcare services using digital technology. Learn more about Arron Twitter: @ArronThind LinkedIn: @arron-thind https://codemed.co.uk/course/ ------------------------------------- Episode Sponsor: Locum's Nest The Locum's Nest app has been revolutionising the way NHS doctors are supported by technology since 2015 and is now wired across all NHS professions. On a mission to remove barriers to workforce mobility across the NHS, Locum's Nest has pioneered the formation of digital collaborative workforce banks across the country, enabling cross-covering of shifts across an ever-growing number of NHS Trusts. Currently the best-rated app for flexible working in the NHS, Locum's Nest is transforming shift work in the NHS into a more inclusive and fulfilling experience by giving healthcare professionals ownership and control of their work life balance. Download the app Now: Apple App Store & Google Play Store Manage your shifts, your rosters and your pay all from one secure place! https://locumsnest.co.uk/healthcare-professionals ------------------------------------- Check out our latest platform Peerr Where healthcare professionals learn from the best educators - your peers! ✍️ Make your own quizzes for revision - An invaluable learning tool

In this week's episode we are joined by Dr Nabila who shares her journey to becoming a cardiologist, a career she was told she was too nice for! Dr Nabila shares her love for teaching and cardiology and why it is so important to be nice and look after medical students who are keen to explore new specialties. We discuss her role as a mother and the difficulties and stigma she faced during her training while being pregnant, at one point even managing a cardiac arrest. We delve into how she balances being an incredible mother, a doctor and building a highly engaging social media profile. We close by sharing some tips on how to build a competitive application and portfolio to pursue a career in cardiology.     Dr Nabila Laskar is a Senior Cardiology Registrar based in London, who his currently taking time out of training to pursue a PhD. She shares her passion for the field by posting educational content on her Instagram account @mummycleverdoc. She shares her insights from within the specialty and endeavours to make Cardiology accessible to many. Dr Laskar also hopes to show others that it is possible to have a family and pursue training in a competitive medical specialty. Learn more about Dr Nabila - Instagram & Twitter ------------------------------------- Episode Sponsor: Locum's Nest The Locum's Nest app has been revolutionising the way NHS doctors are supported by technology since 2015 and is now wired across all NHS professions. On a mission to remove barriers to workforce mobility across the NHS, Locum's Nest has pioneered the formation of digital collaborative workforce banks across the country, enabling cross-covering of shifts across an ever-growing number of NHS Trusts. Currently the best-rated app for flexible working in the NHS, Locum's Nest is transforming shift work in the NHS into a more inclusive and fulfilling experience by giving healthcare professionals ownership and control of their work life balance. Download the app Now: Apple App Store & Google Play Store Manage your shifts, your rosters and your pay all from one secure place! https://locumsnest.co.uk/healthcare-professionals ------------------------------------- Check out our latest platform Peerr Where healthcare professionals learn from the best educators - your peers! ✍️ Make your own quizzes for revision - An invaluable learning tool

In this week's episode we chat to Asha who shares her unconventional journey to becoming a dentist and is now back at medical school in pursuit of a career in Oral Maxillofacial Surgery, more recently she has awared the prestigious MBE award. We look back at her life delving into the obstacles and challenges she has faced to get to where she is now.  Asha shares her unique training pathway, how she balances being a medical student and a portfolio dentist at the same time! Tune in to hear her incredible mindset and her passion for authenticity, dentistry, leadership and why you should always be true to yourself no matter what. Dr Asha Thomson, MBE is a Speciality Doctor in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and Senior Clinical Teacher in Oral Surgery KCL. She is the Chair of Dental Leadership Alumnus (Health Education England Midlands and East) and The Healthcare Leadership Academy Cohort Director, London. Learn more about Dr Asha: Instagram & Twitter ------------------------------------- Episode Sponsor: Locum's Nest The Locum's Nest app has been revolutionising the way NHS doctors are supported by technology since 2015 and is now wired across all NHS professions. On a mission to remove barriers to workforce mobility across the NHS, Locum's Nest has pioneered the formation of digital collaborative workforce banks across the country, enabling cross-covering of shifts across an ever-growing number of NHS Trusts. Currently the best-rated app for flexible working in the NHS, Locum's Nest is transforming shift work in the NHS into a more inclusive and fulfilling experience by giving healthcare professionals ownership and control of their work life balance. Download the app Now: Apple App Store & Google Play Store Manage your shifts, your rosters and your pay all from one secure place! https://locumsnest.co.uk/healthcare-professionals ------------------------------------- Check out our latest platform Peerr Where healthcare professionals learn from the best educators - your peers! ✍️ Make your own quizzes for revision - An invaluable learning tool

Taking Control of Your Destiny #mindsetexplosion - Season 5, Episode 17 Dan Mather Started work in the fire and security industry in 2002 as a junior engineer. By 2009ish, the company had gone through lots of ups and downs and it had gone from circa 30 members of staff with 2 offices, down to just Dan and the MD. They built the company into a circa £1m company by 2015 and around 20 members of staff. Dan was given the opportunity to become shareholder and Operations Director that year as the MD wanted to semi retire to France. So he bought a 40% shareholding in the company and took the company from a sole trader to a LTD in the November of 2015. In a very short space of time, Dan realised that trusting someone who I had been with for 13 years was a bad idea as, instead of paying suppliers, he was portraying himself as a very wealthy businessman to his new ex pat community in France. After many a wasted conversation with him re getting the company on the right track, Dan realised he needed to take full responsibility for himself and his family and started to set up JKE Fire & Security. In February 2017, he began the brand development and then in 2017, resigned as a director of the company to go full time with his own venture. As the previous company was in such a dire state due to the severe cash flow implications taking the companies money to fund his lifestyle, the customers were massively impacted by this. When Dan explained to their long standing clients that he was leaving due to sharing their frustrations, he was amazed that several opted to stay with him. This was massive for JKE Fire & Security as it allowed them to start operating and building up a reputation. They now look after NHS Trusts, Shopping Centres, Property Management Companies, several Lush stores through to residential installations. The services they offer are full fire and security services – CCTV, Intruder Alarms, Access Control, Fire Alarms and Intercoms. They are hoping that this year, they will reach £1m sales targets! Sharing is caring and the rising tide raises all ships. Make Today a Great Day Peace ✌

Very rarely does a travel writer transport you so well that you immediately feel like you are right there. Jumping Over My Shadow, Kath Reade's travel diaries are so well written – rich, detailed, amusing, evocative and a total feast of deliciously fun adventure.Kath Reade takes you big road trips across the USA, to island hopping in the Hebrides, across to the wild Atlantic coast of Ireland, north to Scotland, off to Paris, Florence and South Africa. The descriptions are detailed, the anecdotes charming and at times hilarious - you will be on board from take-off.Kath Reade has had an amazing professional executive career, has been a civic leader and Chairwoman on various NHS Trusts managing billion pound budgets ... and in her spare time she's a folk singer and poet... and now a travel writer.Find Her book on Amazon her music on Spotify or her Facebook page Kath ReadeFollow Paula Mary on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram The Spiritual Surgery PodcastPaula's Website Thepsychicclinic@aol.comShow jingle To play after show jingle

We've all been leading through a pandemic.But what about leading the first-line health response in one of Scotland's busiest and most impacted NHS Trusts? That's what Heather Knox, CEO of NHS Lanarkshire has been doing.And she talks about it in today's podcast. It's a thoughtful reflection on what it has taken to lead in a crisis, wave after wave. And the challenge of balancing the immediacy of the task at hand, with helping the Trust prepare for its long term future. She touches on the need to be fluent in the ways of thinking, acting and being at the leadership level - specifically Cognitive Fluency and Futures Fluency. These fluencies our outlined in my CEO research report that's soon to be published. You can sign up to receive it for free here. https://waldencroft.com/sign-up-to-receive-our-ceo-report/

Dr Dafydd Loughran trained as a surgeon, before joining Babylon Health as an AI Clinician and then founding Concentric Health. Concentric is digitising the consenting of patients prior to surgery. Essentially, bringing traditional paper consent forms into the 21st century. It started as a surgical consent aide-mémoire which Daf made as a Junior Doctor. He has since raised over $1M and Concentric has been adopted by NHS Trusts such as Imperial College and Chelsea and Westminster. We talk about what it's like to be CEO as an introvert, the challenges and opportunities in digitising consent and distributed leadership. I hope you enjoy. You can find me on Twitter @MustafaSultan and subscribe to my newsletter on www.musty.io

Coming up in this week's episode: European oil terminals struck by ransomware, KP Nuts distribution disrupted by hackers, The Sandon School data breach, Dorset NHS Trusts data breaches, British Council 3rd party data breach, Norfolk Dates data breach, FBI warns Winter Olympics athletes to leave their smartphones at home, Equifax data breach settlement agreed, IAB Europe technology found to be non-GDPR compliant, Securitas data breach, Washington Licensing Dept data breach, Artech reach settlement following data breach, Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association data breach, Consel D'Etat confirms CNIL penalty against Google, Greece Telecoms firms fined for data breachs, Brexit Freedom Bill and its impact on UK GDPR, EDPB issues guidance on dealing with Data Subject Access Requests

Army Drafted in to Help London Hospitals as More NHS Trusts Declare Critical Incidents

Today Steve catches up with Richard Wyatt-Haines, Director of HCI, the digital health company transforming digital health solutions by increasing clinicians capacity to care. Richard Wyatt-Haines is the founder and director of HCI, a digital health company who work closely with NHS Trusts to transform healthcare using digital solutions to improve patient education, support remote consultations, reduce unnecessary outpatient appointments and increase clinicians' capacity to care. Richard is a driven entrepreneur who has grown HCI from a video production company to one of only a few digital health organisations that have been awarded a national NHS contract. HCI has produced and implemented the largest collection of health and care information videos in the UK and plays a key part in developing new technological solutions for the NHS, including the national health and care video library made free for NHS use during COVID-19 by NHSX.

The first PMQs of 2022 was a little different. It was Angela Rayner's turn to step up to the dispatch box whilst Keir Starmer is isolating having tested positive for Covid. Rayner went after Boris Johnson on inflation and the cost of living crisis looming in Britain, criticising the government for refusing to cut VAT on energy bills. Another topic that came up was the pressure on the NHS as a result of the pandemic. NHS Trusts are declaring critical incidents saying they're not going to be able to perform certain treatments due to high staff absences. 'The crisis in the healthcare sector is not that anybody is being overwhelmed. The crisis is coming from government policy which is requiring people to isolate when they don't strictly speaking need to' Fraser Nelson For daily Covid data updates, follow The Spectator Data Hub. Isabel Hardman speaks to Fraser Nelson and James Forsyth. Subscribe to The Spectator's Evening Blend email, from Isabel Hardman and Katy Balls, for analysis of the day's political news and a summary of the best pieces from our website. Go to www.spectator.co.uk/blend to sign up.

On this week's episode of the HJ Talks About Abuse podcast, the abuse team discuss the conviction of morgue rapist, David Fuller, and how the NHS will most likely have to foot the cost of his sickening actions.  We all have that one thing in common: one day we are going to die, and when we do, if we can bring ourselves to think about it, would like to think our remains shall be treated with dignity and respect. The conviction of hospital electrician David Fuller, who admitted to performing sexual acts on corpses in morgues, raises questions about the safe keeping of bodies and human remains. It would be assumed, understandably, that this would be a key concern for the NHS yet Fuller, who had a criminal record (burglary), nevertheless, enjoyed unrestricted access to the hospitals where he worked. His seemingly unchecked ability to denigrate the deceased demonstrates a collective lack of respect by the NHS and, especially so, given it has previously been told to improve safeguarding. The Lampard report published in 2015 in the wake of the Jimmy Savile scandal recommended that: All NHS hospital trusts should undertake DBS checks (including, where applicable, enhanced DBS and barring list checks) on their staff and volunteers every three years. The implementation of this recommendation should be supported by NHS Employers. The Health Secretary Sajid Javid has said the NHS had written to all trusts asking for mortuary access and post-mortem activities to be reviewed in the wake of Fuller, but the question to be asked is why was he allowed access to hospital facilities given his criminal record?  A DBS check no doubt revealed, or would have revealed Fullers' offending history, and it should have followed that he was not to be employed on NHS hospital premises, or if he was in restricted and managed circumstances. Tragically Fuller was allowed to offend under the radar, and the families of the deceased now live with the knowledge of the sexual abuse. The NHS may have to pay a price too because of the failure to detect and stop him when it clearly had opportunities to do so. The families affected, arguably, have a case to bring against the NHS Trusts concerned under Articles 3 and 8 of the ECHR: the prohibition of degrading treatment; and the right to family life. Following the decision in: Akpınar and Altun v Turkey close family members who can demonstrate that they have suffered some form of psychiatric injury attributable to the discovery that their loved one was sexually abused, arguably, have a case and this would be on the basis that either or both articles had been breached.   The breach of both articles arises from the fact that the NHS Trusts would be liable for the actions of its employee, who had afforded to him the opportunity to violate the deceased, either by failing to undertake a DBS check, or having done so paid no regard to the risk that his past revealed. To sexually abuse a dead person is degrading, and in turn arguably equally so for close family members whose right to grieve has been compounded by the discovery of Fuller' depravity.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor has seven albums, five children, a podcast and her Live Kitchen Discos during lockdown were a means of virtual escapism for many, and became weekly moments of united sequined catharsis. She joins Emma to discuss her memoir Spinning Plates: Music, Men, Motherhood and Me. Surgeons say women are being refused reconstructive breast surgery on the NHS, even though there are now ways of performing the operation more quickly. The confederation of British surgery say the procedure can be reduced from the traditional 8-12 hours down to 2-3, and hospital stays from 7 days to just 72 hours. Yet surgeons say many NHS Trusts still deem breast reconstruction as ‘cosmetic', and are performing less than two-thirds of the amount of reconstructions they were pre-Covid. There are an estimated 1000 hermits living in Italy - and the majority of them are women. The history of female hermits goes back hundreds of years, with many choosing to remove themselves from a life of marriage and domesticity to a world of study, devotion and freedom from the expectations of society. But what is it like to be a hermit living in the modern world? Emma speaks to urban hermit Julia Bolton-Holloway about the misconceptions people have about the eremitical life, her journey from university lecturer to Anglican nun and now Catholic hermit - and how she balances a life of poverty, chastity and obedience with a dedication to actively helping those most in need. Predatory marriage involves a vulnerable adult being led into a marriage which financially benefits their new spouse. We discuss with Daphne Franks, who believes that her mother was a victim of a predatory marriage; and Dr Rachael Clawson, Associate Professor in Social Work at the University of Nottingham. Presenter: Emma Barnett Producer: Kirsty Starkey Interviewed Guest: Nicola Johnston Interviewed Guest: Dhalia Masud Interviewed Guest: Julia Bolton-Holloway Interviewed Guest: Daphne Franks Interviewed Guest: Dr Rachael Clawson Interviewed Guest: Sophie Ellis-Bextor Photographer: Laura Lewis

This month we are exploring recovery. As Cassidy has been busy finishing her dissertation, join Cerys as they learn how to recover through stories about long Covid community led research, transformative technology in the NHS, and a memorial garden built by students in the Institute of Education. With thanks to our guest speakers: Dr Owain Rhys Hughes is the founder and CEO of Cinapsis. He has over 13 years of experience working as a doctor and he is a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons. Cinapsis SmartReferrals is an NHSX-approved platform that makes it easy for clinicians to communicate and share information to make smarter patient referrals. Currently used by 16 NHS Trusts across the UK, Cinapsis' secure platform gives GPs, paramedics, optometrists and NHS 111 operators immediate access to specialist advice, resulting in more efficient triage, faster decision-making and fewer unnecessary referrals. Dr Athena Akrami Dr Athena Akrami joined the faculty at the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, UCL, in October 2018. She obtained her BA in Biomedical Engineering from Tehran Polytechnic (Amirkabir University of Technology) and her PhD in Computational Neuroscience from International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA, Trieste), with Alessandro Treves. She was a postdoctoral fellow at SISSA where she worked with Mathew Diamond, and then at Princeton University where she was a Howard Hughes Medical Institute fellow and worked with Carlos Brody on Parametric Working Memory. After contracting COVID-19 in March 2020, Athena developed long COVID and was integral in uniting long COVID sufferers and conducting research that has been key for the understanding and treatment of long covid symptoms. Dr Susan McGrath Dr Susan McGrath is an Honorary Fellow of the Centre for Post-14 Education and Work at the Institute of Education. Her research focus on young people's decision-making shows how teachers, parents, schools and employers influence education and career choices. In the wider UCL community, Susan is better known for her work as project lead of the IOE Gardens, including Sarah's Garden and the Bar Terrace. The gardens make a significant contribution to the UCL Biodiversity Plan and, in keeping with the IOE's global status, operate as an outdoor classroom with a distinctly international flavour.

MONEY – The clear distinction between “How much you earn” Vs “How much you have”   What are the 5 reasons why people have money? Is this you?   Why do some have more than others and how do I get more?   Why is Money one of the core elements of having a successful life?   Do you associate money or the subject of money as bad…….Do you understand how it works? How can you make more of it? What are the rules?   Listen in and let me know what you think   Jeremy Lazarus is an Accredited Master Executive Coach, ILM Approved Coach Trainer and a Certified NLP Master Trainer. Prior to becoming a business coach and trainer in 1999, he had 18 years' experience as a senior finance professional and management consultant, including being Finance Director of YO! Sushi (he is a qualified accountant and qualified corporate treasurer).   Jeremy's clients include blue chips, SMEs, several NHS Trusts, charities and elite athletes. He is a guest lecturer at UK universities, and has written four best-selling books (and has just started writing his fifth).   He is an ex semi-professional footballer, and a very keen tennis player.   Contact details: www.thelazarus.com, Jeremy@thelazarus.com, 020 8349 2929.     If you are still here, then you are clearly seeking more from your journey through life You already know you have greater potential and a much bigger calling & simply need to spend as much of your time around the right people – you know, those individuals that motivate, inspire, empower and challenge….   That is why this podcast was created. Come and join us   Top Biller – The Life of a Recruiter Book Links   PAPERBACK COPY https://expertrecruiter.kartra.com/page/sRH4   DIGITAL COPY https://expertrecruiter.kartra.com/page/lQT14

This conversation is with Jane Lewington, the Chief Executive of Navigo, a Community Interest Company providing mental health services in Northeast Lincolnshire. Jane started her NHS career as an A&E receptionist and has worked her way up to become Chief Executive of a number of NHS Trusts, and now Navigo. Mental health as an issue has really shot up the agenda in recent times - but not many people know exactly how mental health services work, so Jane does a great job of breaking it down and explaining how it all fits together. It's a packed interview and we cover the latest NHS reforms, what they mean for local areas and what it means to be part of a “place” delivering public services. We also have a frank discussion about the state of the nation in terms of mental health following the pandemic and the challenges that mental health services may face in the next couple of years. It's probably the most objective and balanced conversation I have had about the trade off between lock down to curtail the spread of the virus and the impact this has on mental health and general well-being. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did!

Former education secretary Justine Greening joins Julie Etchingham in Episode Five to explain why the government is better at handling potholes than people and needs to change.The daughter of a Rotherham steel worker and first openly gay government minister resigned from the cabinet in 2018, before ultimately quitting Parliament, after then-PM Theresa May surprisingly moved her out of the key role in pushing social mobility.Now pursuing the goal outside politics, Justine critiques the government's pandemic performance, explains what Boris Johnson got wrong when it came to Matt Hancock's exit and recounts the emotional moment she tweeted the truth about her sexual orientation.You can read more about Justine's Social Mobility Pledge and why she's pursuing 14 levelling up goals across businesses, NHS Trusts, Councils and universities at https://www.levellingupgoals.org/

Today is the start of a special series of episodes where I interview several paediatric pharmacists at the Evelina London Children's Hospital where I am currently employed. I work with an incredibly experienced team of paediatric pharmacists, some of which have been working in paediatrics for 25+ years! I kickstart this series with a super inspiring role model, colleague and friend, Nicola Husain. Nicola is currently employed as an Academic Link Pharmacist which is a split role between Kings College London and the Evelina London Children's Hospital. She is a Senior Paediatric Pharmacist at the hospital with a special interest in Pain Management and Programme Director for Postgraduate Pharmacy Practice at the university. She leads the Paediatric Pharmaceutical Care International Internship Programme as well as the Foundation in Paediatric Pharmaceutical Care International Masterclass which we discuss in detail on the podcast. She is also working closely with the Neonatal and Paedatric Pharmacists Group (NPPG) from an educational perspective. Nicola has built an incredible career pathway for herself with over 10 years of experience in paediatrics in various NHS Trusts across London. In the podcast, she also talks about her passion for travelling to India on several occasions, one of which involved a pharmacy advisory role for the Latika Roy Foundation. She is also a part time pharmacy advisor for CHIVA Africa and King's Sierra Leone Partnership. We didn't have time to talk about these two roles but if you'd like to know more information, please reach out to her. ***Watch this space for more information on the Foundation in Paediatric Pharmaceutical Care International Masterclass*** Social media: Linkedin: Nicola Husain Follow me on Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, and/or Twitter. Feel free to subscribe to the podcast on your favourite podcast platform so you can be notified when a new episode is released or leave a review on apple podcasts. If you have any suggestions for guests you want me to talk to or if you'd like to come on yourself, please feel free to contact me via social media, or email at info@pharmacistdiaries.com.

Recalling the discovery of her father’s DNR notice in his medical notes six years ago, Yasmeen Khan investigates clinical resuscitation, talking to terminally ill patients and bereaved family members. She discusses ethical issues surrounding the use of what is now called a DNAR notice or DNACPR – Do Not Attempt Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation – examining the recent controversy over the placing of DNAR notices on people with learning disabilities, specifically in relation to the Covid pandemic. Yasmeen talks to representatives from Mencap, the Resuscitation Council UK, medical education and resuscitation expert Dr Linda Dykes, and Merry Varney, the lawyer responsible for representing the Tracey family in a landmark DNAR case. In this 2014 case, the Court of Appeal found that an NHS Trust had a legal duty to tell a patient with mental capacity that a DNACPR order had been placed on their medical records. Following the judgment, all NHS Trusts then had a legal duty to consult with and inform patients if such an order had been placed on their records. Throughout the programme, Yasmeen discusses the events surrounding the death of her father with her best friend, Julie. A Spools Out production for BBC Radio 4

Today the Supreme Court will give its judgement on one of the largest ever equal pay claims . It could have implications for women working in retail all over the UK. It involves those working in the supermarket Asda stores, who are mainly women, who are being paid less than those working in the distribution depot, who are mainly men. The case has been going on for over 5 years. Reporter Melanie Abbott will tell us about its implications for workers across the sector and we hear reaction from Wendy Arundale, who worked at Asda in Middlesbrough for 32 years. Since the start of lockdown many pregnant women have been campaigning to have their birth partners with them when they go for scans. At the end of last year NHS Trusts in England changed their advice and said ,dependent on a risk assessment, they should do all they can to ensure pregnant women are accompanied. But those doing the scans, the sonographers, feel their rights have been overlooked. One wrote a heartfelt letter about this to the professional trade magazine, headlined "We cannot allow professional ultrasound to become entertainment." Her hospital trust won't allow her to come on the programme. But her views are echoed by Gill Harrison who is the professional voice for Ultrasound at the Society of Radiographer. Radio One’s Vick Hope presents a new BBC Sounds podcast called Songs To Live By, celebrating Black voices and experiences through the songs that shaped them. In each episode Vick talks to two guests of different generations about the music that has defined them - personally, politically, musically. She tells Krupa about some of the women involved and the music she enjoyed with her mum. And to mark Bangladesh's 50th year of independence we talk to BBC Asian Network presenter Nadia Ali and Shaz Aberdean, a community worker in Swansea. Presenter Krupa Padhy Producer Beverley Purcell

In this episode Sezer and Julie speak with Dr Ged Smith about the factors that have shaped his systemic practice. Dr Ged Smith is a family therapist of more than 25 years in both CAMHS and Adult Services with various NHS Trusts in the North West as well as in Private Practice. He has been teaching, supervising and consulting all over the world in this time, and has many articles published in academic journals and Context, of which he is a regular contributor and deputy editor. His special interests concern power and gender, particularly masculinity and working with men, which was the subject of his Doctoral study

In this episode, Selvi Ramalingam discusses how to manage a healthcare company with Dr Michael Shenouda. He is the medical director of Open Medical Ltd; an IT solutions company dedicated to digitising the patient journey. Michael is a practicing Orthopaedic Surgeon in London, and has been a clinician for over 10 years. He has contributed to development of the company's product portfolio, and its growth in to over 25 NHS Trusts in the UK, including digitising over 120 patient pathways across 8 different clinical specialties. 

Ben Page is CEO of Ipsos MORI. He has directed thousands of crucial surveys examining consumer trends and citizen behaviour.His background includes working with Shell, BAE Systems, Sky TV and IBM. Ben has worked with both Conservative and Labour ministers and senior policymakers across government, leading on work for Downing Street, the Cabinet Office, the Home Office and the Department of Health, as well as a wide range of local authorities and NHS Trusts.In this absorbing episode of Thought and Leaders, Ben talks to Jonathan Gabay about his review of 2020 as well as thoughts on 2021 and post-COVID.Totally fascinating and packed with facts and data, this is ‘must-listen’ to episode.Thought and Leaders is a Gabay production. If you would like to sponsor the show, or are interested in award-winning content, please DM or email:ask@thoughtandleaders.com Thought and Leaders is available via all major global podcast channels.(Listening time: 32 minutes).

Dan Keeley is one of the UK's leading mental health activists and keynote speakers on a mission to empower the UK to speak up when we're suffering so that together we can show future generations how it's done.  In 2017, after a 5 year battle with bipolar disorder and coming close to taking his own life, Dan ran 1250 miles from the Colosseum in Rome back to the London Eye (solo & self-supported) to share & celebrate his journey of recovery on a national scale - raising over £15,000 for The Campaign Against Living Miserably and empowering thousands of others to speak up about their own personal battles.    Now Dan is a nationally recognised & award-winning mental health activist; collaborating with many of the UK's most forward-thinking organisations committed to the mental health & wellbeing of their teams and their communities. Dan has spoken to thousands of audience members across the globe including corporate organisations, governing bodies, the public-sector, NHS Trusts, schools, conferences and social enterprises. Website: www.dankeeley.coTwitter: www.twitter.com/iamdankeeleyLinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/iamdankeeley/Facebook: www.facebook.com/iamdankeeleyInstagram: www.instagram.com/iamdankeeleyEmail: dan@dankeeley.co*                                *                                        *                                  *                                  *      Sylvia Baldock has been transforming lives from the tender age of 13 when she ran a youth group for deprived teenagers in Glasgow, Scotland.Throughout her varied career from Theatre Sister in Open heart Surgery to a Masterclass Facilitator, Speaker, Business Mentor/Coach and Author, Sylvia has inspired and motivated thousands of people to recognise the unique value they bring to the workplace and to live a life of purpose and impact by Becoming More Significant.Sylvia works with Leaders, Aspiring Leaders, Teams and Individuals who want to increase visibility, confidence, focus, clarity, communication, collaboration, motivation, productivity and growth.If you would like to know how you can Become More Significant right now, book a 20 minute free coaching call by emailing  sylvia@sylviabaldock.com CONNECT WITH SYLVIA BOOK A FREE 15 MINUTE CALL.https://calendly.com/sylviabaldock/15minEmail: sylvia@sylviabaldock.comWebsite: http://www.sylviabaldock.comFacebook Podcast: https://www.facebook.com/becomingmoresignificantFacebook: http://www.facebook.com/sylvia.baldockTwitter: http://twitter.com/SylviabaldockLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sylviabaldockYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWdQsJi6pxyoHzxZ0VseaGA TEDx: 

We all have a responsibility to make a positive impact within our working / home environments and community settings, with organisations positively and actively enhancing caring and ethical ways of doing business and emotionally investing in staff, improving engagement and improving wellbeing ("doing good, is good for people and good for business". Richard Collins is Founder of CSR Accreditation and he shares some inspiring insights and successes from the past 18 months.  This includes a more recent success providing accreditation to one the the largest NHS Trusts - amazing work.

My guest this week is one of the most genuine and relaxed health tech entrepreneurs you'll ever hear from: Mike Sanders - CEO of Intouch with Health. ITWH is the prime supplier of patient flow management solutions to the NHS acute sector.The Patient Journey Platform enables NHS Trusts and healthcare organisations to manage all aspects of a patient’s hospital journey. ITWH currently processes over 30 million NHS outpatient appointments every year and supports over 50 NHS Trusts improve communication and information management, reduce costs and improve overall quality.You can find out more here:https://www.linkedin.com/in/mike-sanders-310a621b/https://www.intouchwithhealth.co.uk/And you can reach out to me here:https://www.linkedin.com/in/duncan-goldie-b2355193/Please subscribe to stay up to date with all the latest episodes and interviews with Digital Health leaders from around the world!If you're watching this on YouTube you will see that i have grown a very ugly moustache, this is because I am supporting Movember and raising money for men's health awareness. Please donate to support my cause here:https://movember.com/m/14429027?mc=1

Dame Jackie Daniel, CEO of Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, talks about her journey from being a nurse to becoming CEO of one of the best performing NHS Trusts in the CQC's national inpatient survey. She shares some of her toughest challenges as a senior NHS leader and explains why the new Complaint Standards are central to organisational culture and patient safety.

A council has been criticised for allowing a funfair to go ahead on a recreation ground in Faversham.Some people living in the town fear it could lead to an increase in coronavirus cases and think people will break the rule of six.Swale Borough Council are sticking by their decision - hear from one resident who isn't happy. Also in today's podcast - the man leading the investigation into the baby death scandal at East Kent Hospitals says some NHS Trusts need to be better at admitting their mistakes.An independent review's looking at whether failings in care led to the avoidable deaths of at least 15 newborns at the QEQM in Margate and William Harvey Hospital in Ashford.Hear what Dr Bill Kirkup has said to the Health and Social Care CommitteeMore of us have apparently been turning to art in lockdown - now exhibitions are opening across the county.And, we reveal the dog who's been named Britain's most destructive pet.

In episode three of this series, we spoke with the head of healthcare at GS1 UK, Glen Hodgson about the our recently released report on the Scan4Safety programme in six trust across NHS England. Off the back of that interview, we received some questions on the reports findings, so we asked Glen to come back and answer them via the wizardry of Microsoft Teams. It also transpires that Glen's is a fan of the post-punk and alternative rock movements, and that wonders will never cease.   Useful linksA scan of the benefits: the Scan4Safety evidence report GS1 UK Healthcare Conference 2021

Episode Notes:If you’ve ever had a dream of starting your own business and wondered what’s possible for you, listen in. Tosin is a multiple business owner and the founder of Tangel Business School. Her vision is to build a community of people who desire to unleash their purpose and passion to create profitable businesses. We chat about how her dream began in her native Nigeria and the path that led her from the corporate world to entrepreneurship, living in the UK, and raising a family. Her passion is clearly one of helping people realize their dreams to create a life of purpose and passion.In This Episode You Will Hear About:The power of women elevating womenWhy having a dream for your life helps you growTosin’s experience growing up in Nigeria and moving to the UKHow your passion doesn’t need to become a businessBehind the scenes of growing a business and raising a familyHow to involve your kids in building your dreamResources:Connect to your purpose and elevate your wellness:Learn More: http://www.sheilabotelho.comInstagram: @sheilaabotelhoFollow Tosin:Website: https://tosintangel.comInstagram: @tosintangelYouTube: Tosin JohnTosin’s Free 5-day 'Business Clarity & Focus Workshop' email course Show Notes:Tosin is a wife, mom of 3 boys and a multi-passionate business strategist. She was born and raised in Nigeria and lives in Essex, in the UK. Her drive has been honed from over a decade working in Strategic Business & Project Management and running multiple successful businesses, including real estate, postal services, and convenience retail.Tosin John began her journey by studying Computer Science when it wasn’t popular, transitioned into Strategic Business IT, and later specialised in several high level project management roles. However, she knew running her own business empire was her secret dream. After many years of working in the well-heeled offices of various NHS Trusts, Accounting firms, and Corporate offices, she decided to go for it. Since making the transition to business owner, Tosin has learned a tremendous amount from running several successful businesses. While it hasn’t always been easy, becoming an entrepreneur has been one of the most exhilarating, rewarding and satisfying journeys of her life.Rate, Review & Subscribe on Apple Podcasts“I love Sheila’s insights on The Connect Podcast."*This interview is for educational purposes only and doesn't necessarily represent the practices of the host. Please consult your physician or health advisor before beginning any new healing or self-care protocol.

Demystifying Mental Toughness is for people who want to reach their goals faster and are curious what high performing athletes and professionals do to fulfil their potential. David Charlton shares insights, strategies and stories from leading athletes, coaches, psychologists and specialists to help you perform to your optimum level on a more consistent basis. If you’re a motivated athlete, coach, sports psychologist, mental game coach or executive listen in for proven and practical advice in this podcast. Dave Algeo is a speaker, author and male burnout prevention and recovery coach who helps organisations to equip their people with a sustainable success toolkit. He also helps coach men seeking to avoid burnout and achieve breakthroughs in their life and work. Some of Dave’s corporate clients have been McDonalds Europe Ltd the Crown Prosecution Service and various NHS Trusts, universities, councils, as well as other corporate clients. His key message is that success can be achieved with well-being. Mental Health is an important topic at present because of the impact COVID-19 has had on people. Is also a theme which is talked about a lot in elite sport, where a large amount of my work is. Yet often people don’t see the link between Mental Toughness, Mental Health and High Performance. Therefore, in this episode we discuss this relationship where Dave Algeo then goes on to share why decision makers in organisations should take investing in people’s mental health seriously. Essential Learning Points: • Well-being of people is often down the list of priorities in organisations however there is a relationship between success and positive mental health. • Burnout can cost organisations thousands of pounds so from a business case it doesn’t make any sense not so invest in the area. • Some organisations still have a tough it out, just get through culture neglecting the human and emotional side. • A starting point for organisations when shifting their culture is to take an interest in what people are saying and how people are feeling. • If people work hard in pressurised environments, they’ll likely wear so we all need time to repair. • Giving individuals a sense of autonomy and flexibility on their own working environment is important. • A coaching approach as a manager, taking the time out to understand the human being is vitally important for optimal well-being and performance. • As a manager self-awareness is key, recognising both you and teams habits when under increased pressure. • The Stevenson Farmer Mental Health at Work report highlights the case for investing in people in an organisation where a wisely spent £1 on well-being can end up yielding a return on investment from £1.50 up to £9 with an average of around £4.50. • The result is likely to be a confident and committed workforce, hallmarks of Mental Toughness, with less absence and decreased chances of bullying. • There is a business and a moral case to implement well-being programmes in the workplace. • Managers and leaders can benefit from support and guidance on how to handle difficult situations. • Decision makers should be aware that they will be biased based on their own experiences of mental health so it is important to stop and be objective looking at the evidence supporting well-being programmes.

Tina Seymour, chief executive of Hope For Tomorrow, joins Debs, Lauren and Steve to talk about how the charity provides mobile cancer care units to NHS Trusts and the challenges caused by the coronavirus pandemic. The #YouMeBigC team are also joined by Madelaine McLaughlin who uses the service and Pat Dyminski, who is a lead clinical nurse and MSCC Coordinator at Airedale NHS Foundation Trust, to discuss the impact mobile units can make to rural communities.

In the 14th episode of our series on science, policy and pandemics, we're talking about vaccines and immunology. Throughout this episode, our host Rob Doubleday is joined by Dr Caroline Trotter, Dr Estee Torok, and Dr Flavio Toxvaerd. They explore our current understanding of the immunology and of vaccines under development; challenges involved in vaccine distribution, and insights we've gained about innovation and knowledge exchange throughout the vaccine development process. CSaP's Science and Policy Podcast is a production of the Centre for Science and Policy at the University of Cambridge. This series on science, policy and pandemics is produced in partnership with Cambridge Infectious Diseases and the Cambridge Immunology Network. Our guests this week: Dr Caroline Trotter is an epidemiologist and a Principal Research Associate, Department of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Cambridge. She is also the Academic Director Cambridge Africa in the Department of Pathology, and is an Honorary Epidemiologist at Public Health England. Dr Estee Torok is a Consultant in Infectious Diseases at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge and a researcher at Cambridge's Department of Medicine. Her research focuses on translating microbial genomics into clinical practice. She is presently working with the NHS Trusts in Cambridgeshire as part of the COV002 vaccine trial which has been developed by the University of Oxford. Dr Flavio Toxvaerd is a university lecturer at the University of Cambridge, where he specialises in microeconomic theory. He has recently been working on the covid-19 response, including through work on the global impact of coronavirus, and on the economics of how search and matching models can be useful for understanding economic and virological aspects of the coronavirus epidemic. -- CSaP: The Science & Policy Podcast is hosted by CSaP Executive Director Dr Rob Doubleday, and is edited and produced by CSaP Communications Coordinator Kate McNeil. If you have feedback about this episode, or questions you would like us to address in a future week, please email enquiries@csap.cam.ac.uk.

This week on MIA Radio we turn our attention to electroconvulsive therapy (known as electroshock in the US). It’s fair to say that ECT remains a controversial subject with proponents and detractors regularly disagreeing on its safety and efficacy. The number of psychiatrists willing to administer ECT, particularly in the UK, is in decline but we are still using it to administer electric shocks to the brains of an estimated 2,000 people each year. In this interview, we discuss a recent paper from the journal Ethical Human Psychology and Psychiatry. The title is ‘Electroconvulsive Therapy for Depression: A Review of the Quality of ECT versus Sham ECT Trials and Meta-Analyses’ and it is written by John Read, Irving Kirsch and Laura McGrath. On MIA we have previously written about the study and its findings. We hear from two of the authors, Professor of Psychology John Read from the University of East London and Professor of Psychology Irving Kirsch from Harvard Medical School. We discuss: That the work aimed to review the quality of meta-analyses and any relevant clinical studies of ECT. How there have only ever been 11 studies that have compared ECT with sham ECT (SECT). Sham ECT is when the anaesthetic is administered but not followed by shocks to the brain. That in addition to reviewing the quality of the studies, the paper went on to consider the effect of placebo in the administration of ECT. That when reviewing the quality of studies, a 24-point scale was used and that the scorers were blinded to each other’s ratings. The 24-point scale included 5 basic Cochrane Collaboration criteria and an additional 19 quality indicators, some of which were specific to ECT procedures. The average quality score across all the studies was 12.3 out of a 24 maximum. One of the most important findings was that none of the studies reviewed were double-blind. The reason for this is that the patients can’t be blinded to the procedure because the adverse after-effects are very obvious. In reviewing the studies it was sometimes the case that only the treating psychiatrist was rating the effectiveness of the procedure, not the patient. The 5 meta-analyses themselves only contained between 1 and 7 of the eleven available studies. The recommendation from the paper is that the use of ECT should be suspended pending a properly controlled, rigorous clinical trial. That the UK’s National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) has decided to review their ECT recommendations in their depression guidelines, considering the review. That the Royal College of Psychiatrists has indicated that they will update their ECT position statement in light of the review. It has come to light recently that NHS Trusts in the UK are sometimes using out of date or incorrect information in their ECT guidance leaflets, an example of this is referring to ECT correcting a ‘chemical imbalance in the brain’. How the expectations of the treating doctor can influence the condition of the person undergoing the treatment. That the placebo effect can be large and long-lasting and that the more invasive the procedure, the larger the effect. That one of the characteristics of depression is the feeling of hopelessness and that when you are given a new treatment, it can instil a sense of hope which counters the hopelessness. That the call to prohibit ECT is because the negative effects of ECT are so strong, the fact that the evidence supporting it is so weak (especially in the long-term and beyond the improvement due to placebo) and that there are other means of addressing the difficulties that the person is dealing with. That placebos are, in essence, a type of psychological therapy. Links and further reading: Electroconvulsive Therapy for Depression: A Review of the Quality of ECT versus Sham ECT Trials and Meta-Analyses Richard P. Bentall: ECT is a classic failure of evidence-based medicine NICE guidance on the use of electroconvulsive therapy

In episode 11 of the Virti XR Training Podcast, Nick gets the opportunity to speak and hear insights from Dr Jordan Tsigarides, an NHS Academic Clinical Fellow who has been developing and researching the use of VR in medical education for the past three years. In our conversation, we cover use cases of the technology for medical training, the unique work Jordan is engaged in and also outline helpful tips for any healthcare teams starting out in the immersive technologies space. About the Guest: Twitter: @VRMedicsNorwich Dr. Jordan Tsigarides is an Academic Clinical Fellow in Rheumatology based in Norwich, UK. He is the VR lead for the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital NHS Trust and has been responsible for the development of multiple educational programmes utilising immersive technologies. A passionate advocate for technology-enhanced learning, Jordan has spoken internationally on the use of immersive technologies for the delivery of medical education. With a Masters in Clinical Education, he has conducted primary educational research on the efficacy of 360-degree video augmented simulation training & is involved with therapeutic VR, having founded the MSK Therapeutic VR Lab at the University of East Anglia (UEA) and is actively co-developing VR interventions alongside industry partners. Tweet Virti: @virtimed Contact Virti: https://virti.com

Ride hailing giant Uber and takeaway firm Deliveroo are offering hundreds of thousands of free trips and meals to NHS staff fighting the coronavirus. Uber is giving away 200,000 rides worth up to £15 and 100,000 free meals worth up to £10. Deliveroo said it would deliver 500,000 hot dishes to NHS Trusts from the likes of Pizza Hut, Itsu and Neat Burger. However, unions say the firms are still failing to support their own low-paid workers during the crisis. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/newscast-africa/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Roy Lilley has been in and around the NHS since 1974. He is an independent health policy analyst, writer, broadcaster and commentator on the National Health Service and social issues.  An excoriating critic of the NHS and its institutions but with his last breath, a fan of the patient facing front-line of healthcare and the anonymous people who manage the services.  He has been a policy advisor, a visiting fellow at Imperial College London, helped start the Health services Management school at Nottingham University and was a founder of the Federation of NHS Trusts… that became the Confed. And is the author of over twenty books on health and health service management. Roy is the Founder of the Academy of Fabulous NHS Stuff, and runs the nhsManagers.network.  Roy talks candidly to Trevor Dale on Atrainability Radio about trying to change attitudes to human error and fallibility across healthcare.

In this episode we talk to NHS Trusts who featured in our sustaining improvement case studies. We hear from them about their improvement journeys and how they've sustained the improvements they've made. You can read the full case studies at the link below https://www.cqc.org.uk/publications/themed-work/sustaining-improvement

She is passionate about helping organisations harness the sometimes-latent potential of their employees using bespoke coaching, mentoring approaches to address workforce challenges such as Mental and Physical Health.  Marteka has over 15 years experience improving emotional wellbeing through coaching, consulting and mentoring. She is an expert in mental health and is curating health & wellbeing programmes for individuals, teams and organisations. She has worked in one of the UK's largest NHS Mental Health Trusts.  And practices as a Psychotherapist, specialising in compulsive & emotional eating disorders. Marteka is a Mental Health Innovator through her company Benevolent Health specialise in providing expertise in mental health to NHS Trusts, Clinical Commissioning Groups, Local Authorities and Third Sector both in the public and private sector. Connect with Marteka https://benevolenthealth.co.uk/consulting/  

In this episode Nigel Poole QC speaks with Helen Vernon, Chief Executive of NHS Resolution, the body that handles claims brought against NHS Trusts and, now, General Practitioners.Helen discusses the work of NHSR, the number of claims it deals with and the costs of those claims. She gives an insight into initiatives to deal with claims earlier and without the need for litigation, and talks about the way NHSR seeks to use the knowledge gained from claims to improve learning, and ultimately patient safety.

He says “I help people to think, debate, decide and then do good work”Since 1998, Roger has helped thousands of leaders around the world to re-discover their purpose, their humanity and their integrity with significant improvement in sustainable profitability. Clients have included Barclays, BP, Citi, Clifford Chance, EY, HSBC, Nationwide, NHS Trusts, Openreach, PWC and RBS. He has also advised regulators, law enforcement and other government agencies. He is the author of "ethicability" and "Thinking outside the inbox"; and co-designer of the MoralDNA Profile. He has been described as a "disruptive", "provocative" and "world-class" keynote speaker on leadership, culture and ethics.#InspiringLeadership #leadership #CEOs #MotivationalSpeaker #teamcoach #Boards See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

  Joining Andrea Downey on this month's podcast to discuss how trusts can encourage and support innovation is Chris Chaney, chief executive of Chelsea and Westminster's charity CW+, Sunita Sharma, an obstetrician and gynaecologist who developed the Mum & Baby app which links women to maternity services and Tom Newsom-Davis, a consultant oncologist who leads on the acute diagnostic oncology clinic at Chelsea and Westminster.

Keith Jones is a lawyer and works from home. He wanted to volunteer for the charity Hospice of the Valleys. He went for an interview and was accepted. However, a risk assessment was carried out on the location, and it was deemed unsuitable for him to work there. Keith says it’s discrimination but can he sue? Sean Delaney from the National Council of Volunteer Organisations outlines the law in this area. A Southampton woman has been given £3m compensation for the delays in her eye treatment leaving her severely visually impaired. University of Southampton NHS Trust has reviewed the waiting times for NHS Trusts and say delays are a national problem. The Royal College of Ophthalmologists agrees and says 230 more training places are required. The Department of Health and Social Care responded by pointing out the £33.9bn it says it plans to inject into the NHS by 2024. Michael Cassidy, vice-president of the Association of Visually Impaired Chartered Physiotherapists, reflects on 100 years of blind physiotherapists. Presenter: Peter White Producer: Lee Kumutat

This week Arden speaks with Kumar Jacob, Founder & CEO of Mindwave Ventures. Kumar has a career spent in technology and gaming, as well as a stint as a non-executive of South London and Maudsley NHS Trust. It was this experience which exposed Kumar to the lack of technology provision in the Mental Health world. Not one to sit still Kumar decided to address this shortage of innovation by creating Mindwave Ventures a company which focuses on creating tools for the NHS, Charities and private providers looking to cerate meaningful solutions in the space. Alongside working with Thalamos, one of their key projects is their open source Personal Health Record which they are building collaboratively with a number of NHS Trusts across the UK. Kumar and Arden discuss why he first got interested in technology in mental health, what he things the future holds, as well as some of the positives and negatives of bring innovation to the NHS. We hope you enjoy listening.

In 2017, Sasha was working as an IT Technician for one of the country's biggest NHS Trusts when it was hit by the WannaCry ransomware attack. In this podcast, Sasha explains how she predicted the cyberattack, and fills Alex in on just how bad the state of the NHS's IT Systems are, including their bizarre use of an outdated 80s technology.

In this episode, Liam speaks to Dr Umesh Prabhu - someone who is considered a genuine VIP in healthcare.  His leadership has proven to show better health outcomes, with a great track record in several NHS Trusts. 

Welcome back, today it’s my pleasure to introduce you to David Bell. David is the Associate Director of Strategic Planning at Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust. He’s an MBA graduate and has over 30 years experience of working in strategy and project management within the UK’s health service. During David’s time with the NHS, he has had a particular focus on strategic planning, change management and running large projects within NHS Trusts. In this interview, David and I are going to discuss “managing a transformation program in the NHS”.

Chris Morris is a Relationship manager & Entrepreneur his previous career roles have been with NHS Trusts and Department of the Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs in the UK. This was before setting up a new life in Singapore where he initially supported his wife’s career before finding a role in Change Management and then … Continue reading EIA 041 Liming at the Lime House → The post EIA 041 Liming at the Lime House appeared first on AsiaBizStories - Entrepreneurs in Action.

This week, we interview Dr Russell Razzaque. Dr Razzaque currently works as a consultant psychiatrist and associate medical director in east London and, together with colleagues, he is leading a pioneering multi-centre Open Dialogue pilot in the UK National Health Service. In 2014 he released his book ‘Breaking Down Is Waking Up’ in which he explores alternative views of mental distress, their relationship to consciousness and comparisons to forms of spiritual awakening. In this interview, we discuss the relationships between mindfulness, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Open Dialogue and how the UK NHS is approaching the worlds first randomised controlled trial of Open Dialogue interventions for people struggling with emotional or psychological distress. In this episode we discuss: What led Dr. Razzaque to his interest in psychiatry and in particular some of the more unconventional aspects of the profession. How beginning to practice mindfulness nearly 20 years ago led to Russell starting to feel an incongruence between the dominant philosophy in psychiatry and what he was learning from his own mindfulness practices. That the dominant philosophy is one of trying to help people remove their pain and remove them from difficult and uncomfortable experiences, but in his own personal development, he was learning to sit with the pain and finding that valuable. How this led to an interest in novel therapeutic approaches like Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, originally pioneered by professor Stephen Hayes. That Russell felt disillusioned with the way that UK mental health services and systems were organised and realised that creating better outcomes for people would require system-wide change. How Russell came to be one of the leading figures in the worlds first multi-centre, fully randomised Open Dialogue Trial which seeks to establish the evidence base for Open Dialogue. That the trial involves eight NHS Trusts across the UK and that several hundred practitioners have already been trained in Open Dialogue therapy. That during the trial there will be randomly selected postcodes receiving Open Dialogue interventions compared with randomly selected postcodes receiving treatment as usual and that the results will be compared after three years. That this trial will allow us to answer questions about the efficacy of Open Dialogue because we will have built a strong evidence base. How colleagues have reacted to the Open Dialogue trial and why some might be threatened by the need to change. That Open Dialogue is a need adapted approach, so it is not fundamentally against any of the conventional interventions, but it encourages people to make their own choices, so medication use tends to significantly reduce. That it is necessary to change the power dynamic in current systems and approaches because the current methods lead to dependency, whereas Open Dialogue is about empowering and liberating the individual. That Russell is encouraged to find that many psychiatrists are willing to open up to new ways of thinking about mental and emotional distress. How spirituality and psychiatry can work hand-in-hand and how accepting spiritual explanations can sometimes lead to better understanding of personal experiences. That, in future, the system needs to change such that interpersonal relationships are put first and are seen as the key to successful outcomes. That we also need to adapt so that clinicians are trained to be present with distress and not just try to remove it.  How people can hear Russell speak at the upcoming Compassionate Mental Heath event in South Wales, being held on April 25th and 26th 2018. Relevant links: Russell Razzaque Breaking Down is Waking Up Open Dialogue trial Developing Open Dialogue Compassionate Mental Health

Spain is increasingly attractive to Chinese investors. The mastermind behind Gürtel, a corrupt business network that operated across six Spanish regions between 1999 and 2005, is ready to return around €22 million stashed in Swiss bank accounts .... A human tower team member has been killed and two others injured in a freak accident in Spain..... Spaniards are among the biggest substance abusers in Europe..... Brexit has been bad news for Gibraltar. ...Spain will recover the right recognized in Article X of the Treaty of Utrecht to control or close access to the British Overseas Territory. .Juan José Cañas from the city of Malaga in southern Spain is 80 years old, and although he retired two decades ago, he says his many offspring have been keeping him busy lately. ...... In the UK a paedophile left a four-year-old boy with brain and spinal injuries after using pliers to inflict injuries ..... One in ten of all Britain’s Islamist terrorists come from just five council wards in Birmingham. The BBC has been accused of being ‘dismissive’ of Christianity and lambasted for its ignorance after questioning whether an MP should have attended a parliamentary meeting with an Ash Wednesday cross on her forehead. A builder who built his life on 'staggering lies' has been jailed for two years after making more than £1 million over the course of a decade by pretending to have a PhD to become chairman of two NHS Trusts... ... Britain's most lucrative bus lane cameras have been revealed with one device alone making its council £6,000 a day..... Plans to kick out misbehaving peers who bring the House of Lords into 'disrepute' have been quietly dropped...... The Queen has an enviable array of outfits to choose from. But it turns out the handbags and jewellery aren't just for show......

Spain is increasingly attractive to Chinese investors. The mastermind behind Gürtel, a corrupt business network that operated across six Spanish regions between 1999 and 2005, is ready to return around €22 million stashed in Swiss bank accounts .... A human tower team member has been killed and two others injured in a freak accident in Spain..... Spaniards are among the biggest substance abusers in Europe..... Brexit has been bad news for Gibraltar. ...Spain will recover the right recognized in Article X of the Treaty of Utrecht to control or close access to the British Overseas Territory. .Juan José Cañas from the city of Malaga in southern Spain is 80 years old, and although he retired two decades ago, he says his many offspring have been keeping him busy lately. ...... In the UK a paedophile left a four-year-old boy with brain and spinal injuries after using pliers to inflict injuries ..... One in ten of all Britain’s Islamist terrorists come from just five council wards in Birmingham. The BBC has been accused of being ‘dismissive’ of Christianity and lambasted for its ignorance after questioning whether an MP should have attended a parliamentary meeting with an Ash Wednesday cross on her forehead. A builder who built his life on 'staggering lies' has been jailed for two years after making more than £1 million over the course of a decade by pretending to have a PhD to become chairman of two NHS Trusts... ... Britain's most lucrative bus lane cameras have been revealed with one device alone making its council £6,000 a day..... Plans to kick out misbehaving peers who bring the House of Lords into 'disrepute' have been quietly dropped...... The Queen has an enviable array of outfits to choose from. But it turns out the handbags and jewellery aren't just for show......

Green Templeton College Health Experiences Institute - Management in Medicine (HEXI-MiM) Lecture on 30th April 2012. Medicine needs moral leaders. Healthcare organisations cannot keep patients safe, supply good cost-effective care, or meet the core health needs of their communities, without moral leadership by healthcare professionals. But to date there has been rather little research into what moral leadership is and ought to be. The medical leadership bandwagon is rolling forward on the fragile foundation of the medical leadership competencies framework, while the medical ethics enterprise relies heavily on models of morality that treat the main task as making moral choices. In this presentation I shall argue (i) that medical leaders have, and need, a richer appreciation of the moral demands of their work than the competencies framework implies; (ii) that the pressing challenge is to implement effective moral action not just to make good choices; and (iii) that we need to turn our attention to understanding and developing the capacity for moral action. Along the way I shall describe the moral work that medical directors in NHS Trusts do, and invite the audience to test their own moral perceptions.

Why are ambulances queuing up to unload patients needing treatment at hospital Accident and Emergency Departments? Some senior A and E medics say there are too few beds and not enough staff in a front line service struggling to cope. Cash strapped NHS Trusts are closing casualty units, or replacing them with lower grade Urgent Care Centres but what's been the impact on patients? Allan Urry asks whether A and E is on life support, at a time when the NHS is trying to make £20 billions savings without compromising patient care. Presenter: Allan Urry Producer: Samantha Fenwick.

Attention has been focussed recently on whether NHS Trusts in England are responding properly to the Gender Equality Duty, since it came into force in April 2007. Research by the Men's Health Forum highlighted that many of the published gender equality schemes it had researched were poorly evidenced, focussed on processes rather than outcomes, and showed a lack of effective consultation and involvement with service users. Plain Sense was recently commissioned to put together a series of conference workshops for senior NHS Trust managers in England's North West region, to discuss how to be more effective and compliant in this area. Presenters included figures from the Strategic Health Authority, the Department of Health and the Equality and Human Rights Commission to explain what was expected. Just as importantly, an array of stakeholder speakers were invited to explain their view of the real priorities for promoting equality. Karen Moore is a policy officer with the Women's Resource Centre - a national umbrella organisation based in London. In her speech, presented here in full, she challenged NHS Trust managers to look strategically at issues like violence against women and support for rape crisis centres as a means of avoiding longer term and more intractable mental and physical health issues. Afterwards her colleague, Darlene Corry, provided an interview summing up the challenges and opportunities in thinking 'out of the box' on these kinds of issues. If you would like to view a handout of Karen's slides whilst listening to her talk then click on this link. (PDF 141Kb; 4 pages) In the next episode it's the men's turn.