Let us know what you think of the show Welcome back to another episode of the Community, Health and Capital podcast with Dr Jonny Currie, NHS GP and Co-Director of 19 Hills CIC. Joining us in this episode is Professor Sally Lewis, GP, former National Clinical Director for Value-Based and Prudent Healthcare in NHS Wales, founder of the internationally recognised Welsh Value in Health Centre and author of a new book, Implementing Value-Based Healthcare: an Insider's Guide to improvin...

Let us know what you think of the show Welcome back to another episode of the Community, Health and Capital podcast with Jonny Currie and Matt Thorne, NHS primary care clinicians and Co-Directors of 19 Hills CIC. Joining us in this episode is Dr Lisa, Newport GP, specialist lifestyle medicine doctor, (new!) author and creator of Revive Prescribed, an online platform promoting holistic and patient-led approaches to improving health. Recorded at a venue kindly provided by Dan Harris, Managing D...

Let us know what you think of the show Joining us in this episode is Paul Miller, Managing Partner and Chief Executive Officer at Bethnal Green Ventures (BGV). BGV started in 2012, with social innovation camps aiming to bring together people at the sharp end of social and environmental challenges with some of the best tech talent in the UK. The founders drew on learning from the success of accelerator programmes in the US and started with the idea of Europe's first 'tech for good' accelerator...

Let us know what you think of the show Join us for our latest episode this time with Marianne Mannello, Assistant Director at Play Wales, a charity championing/promoting/advocating for children’s needs and rights to play. We talk about how outdoor play has changed in Wales and other countries over time, the different factors that can affect children's ability to play freely outdoors and how organisations can work together to help secure children’s right to a quality, safe and free space for t...

Let us know what you think of the show In this episode we speak with Dr Anne Marie Cunningham, GP, former Associate Medical Director at Digital Health and Care Wales and now GP Advisor at the Department of Health in Northern Ireland. Anne Marie talks to us about the NHS Hack Day coming up 1st-2nd March in Cardiff, how such events can build greater common understanding between NHS staff and the tech industry, while meanwhile generating support for new ideas for how #TechForGood can creat...

Let us know what you think of the show Join us for our latest episode this time with Dr Karen Sankey (#TheHolisticMedic), GP and therapeutic coach. Dr Sankey set up Community Wellness CIC, a social enterprise designed to enable people marginalised by mainstream service approaches to find new approaches to wellbeing that respect acceptance, compassion, creativity and shared knowledge. Dr Sankey shares her insights into the challenges facing those creating new approaches outside of the status ...

Let us know what you think of the show This episode introduces Dr Tim Hall, former academic lecturer, now Academic in Residence for Citizens UK, a network of groups and institutions apply a Community Organising approach to bring communities together to inspire and create change. The organisation has a long history of campaigning, but aims to do so through respectfully by strengthening relationships between those in positions of power and community members. Tim talks to us about some of ...

Let us know what you think of the show This episode we welcomed Susannah Fox, author of Rebel Health and former Chief Technology Officer for the United States Department of Health and Human Services. Susannah walks us through why she chose to write a book about the need for more community- and patient-orientated healthcare innovation, but how such an approach could transform both the outcomes of how care is delivered but also the approaches we might take instead to addressing health problems....

Let us know what you think of the show For our 10th episode we welcome Lizzie O'Brien, Makeda Kingue and Mohammed Quhill, current and former students of Cardiff Medical School all involved with Cardiff Refugee Health Project. The group talk about their work with Doctors of the World UK promoting the Safe Surgeries toolkit, designed to support primary care services in meeting NHS guidance on registration and access policies, particularly for certain population groups that are at risk of discri...

Let us know what you think of the show In our 9th episode we talk to Dr Connie Junghans, GP in Westminster, London, Senior Clinical Fellow at Imperial College London and Clinical Lead for the Community Health and Wellbeing Workers (CHWWs - hence the bad Star Wars joke...) programme in West London. Connie talks to us about how they've implemented this model of proactive and comprehensive programme in Westminster involving teams of workers visiting around 120 households several times a year to ...

Let us know what you think of the show Join us for our 8th episode as we speak with Dr Selva Selvarajah, a GP Partner at St Andrews Health Centre at the infamous Bromley-by-Bow Health Centre in Tower Hamlets, east London. Selva narrates a brief history of how Bromley-by-Bow grew from its roots as a community-led social action organisation into one delivering primary healthcare, but with a radically different approach. Selva talks to us about recent developments at Bromley-by-Bow includ...

Let us know what you think of the show In this episode we speak with Pippa Britton OBE, Vice Chair of the Board of Aneurin Bevan University Health Board, Vice Chair of Sport Wales and double Paralympian for Great Britain. Pippa speaks about what integration of services could mean at a neighbourhood level and what effects this might have on experiences of care for service users, as well as the potential benefits of community involvement and a more holistic focus beyond people's medical needs i...

Let us know what you think of the show In this episode we speak with Dr Matt Harris, Clinical Senior Lecturer in Public Health at Imperial College London, on how working overseas in low- and middle-income countries changed his perspective and practice and how such experiences, including in a partnership arrangement, could share learning, improve services and build solidarity between the UK and other countries. Matt published a book in 2023 on Decolonizing Healthcare Innovation, setting out ...

Let us know what you think of the show In this episode we speak with Professor Jennie Popay, Professor of Sociology and Public Health at Lancaster University on why and how communities of interest or of place can, and should, be involved in the planning and evaluation of health services. Jennie leads us on a path of understanding the history of public involvement in the NHS, her experiences of influencing this at a national level, and alongside sets out some practical steps for how the colle...

Let us know what you think of the show In this 4th podcast episode of the series we interview Austin O'Carroll, an inner city GP in Dublin since 1997, founder of Safety Net Ireland, a charity working to improve healthcare access for people who are homeless, and co-founder of the North Dublin City GP Training programme aiming to recruit and train GPs to practice inner-city medicine. Listen to the episode for how flexible access arrangements, a social model for health and patient empowerment (...

Let us know what you think of the show In our 3rd episode of the series we interview Dave Horton, former Co-Director of ACE (Action in Caerau and Ely - www.aceplace.org) on the story of how a small community-based organisation in the west of Cardiff has grown in size and impact through its application of an Asset-Based Community Development approach, synthesising principles also from Community Organising, to work with local residents to build connections, social capital, pride and belonging i...

Let us know what you think of the show This 2nd episode of the Community, Health and Capital series interviews Mark Carter, a former social worker now Assistant Director for Children's Services at Barnardos covering south east Wales. Mark describes Baby and Me - a collaboration between local services and the third sector in Newport supporting parents expecting a baby who agencies are concerned are at risk of requiring statutory social services support, describing the benefits of collab...

Let us know what you think of the show This 1st episode of the Community, Health and Capital series interviews Dr Mark Spencer, a GP in Fleetwood in Lancashire. Mark talks through his career as a GP and how an encounter with a young man suffering from alcohol problems changed the way Mark thought about what value primary care and integrated services could bring to a community. After repeated and sustained engagement with residents of the area, Healthier Fleetwood, a "social movement" powered...