The Business of Healthcare Podcast with Tara Humphrey

Welcome back to The Business of Healthcare Podcast episode 178 where this week I am talking to Louise Clague who is the Donor Recruitment Manager for DKMS. They are an international charity dedicated to the fight against blood cancer and blood disorders.   I am so proud to be an ambassador for DKMS and what they stand for and it great having the opportunity to speak to Louise to spread the message about how important it is to raise awareness to become part of the registry.  Take a listen, and tag us in any posts on social media if from listening to this podcast you have sent off for your cheek swab kit – we would love to hear!  “The problem that we've got is only 2% of the population are on that register and yet every 20 minutes somebody is diagnosed with a type of blood cancer”. Louise Clague - DKMS    Mentions in this episode  DKMS – and how to register as a donor    This week on The Business of Healthcare:    Who are DKMS and what they do  How to get involved and become part of the stem cell registry  Statistics of finding a donor  Hearing positive outcomes and stories    Work with me  I’m Tara Humphrey and I’m the founder of THC Primary Care, a leading healthcare consultancy. I provide project and network management to Primary Care Networks and consulting support to clinical leads. To date, I’ve worked with 11 Training Hubs and 12 Primary Care Networks.  I have over 20 years of project management and business development experience across the private and public sector and have an MBA in Leadership and Management in Healthcare. I’m also published in the London Journal of Primary Care and the author of over 200 blogs.   For more weekly insights and advice sign up to my newsletter.  Improving the Business of Healthcare – One Episode at a Time   Thanks for tuning into this week’s episode of the Business of Healthcare Podcast. If you enjoyed this episode, head over to Apple Podcasts to subscribe, leave your honest review, and share your favourite episodes on social media. Find us on Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn or visit our website – THC Primary Care.   

Today on the business of healthcare podcast I have the pleasure in talking about The Business of Healthcare Mentorship Programme and the Health & Care Inequality Grant.  Last year we created an initiative called the business of healthcare scholarship, and we created that to provide mentorship and professional development grants to healthcare professionals from ethnically diverse backgrounds, looking to progress their leadership careers. In total we supported 17 people and we gave out 10,000 pounds worth of educational grants which I am extremely proud of.  This year we are doing it a little differently – we have launched The Business of Healthcare Academy which will be supporting and influencing positive change in the field of healthcare through;  Education  Training  Mentorship  Investment in health and care initiatives  Applications close on Monday 22nd November so check out the details in the podcast or pop over to our website www.thcprimarycare.co.uk for more details. For more information on The Business of Healthcare Academy click here    Mentions in the episode  One Medical Group  DKMS   Work with me  I’m Tara Humphrey and I’m the founder of THC Primary Care, a leading healthcare consultancy. I provide project and network management to Primary Care Networks and consulting support to clinical leads. To date, I’ve worked with 11 Training Hubs and 12 Primary Care Networks.  I have over 20 years of project management and business development experience across the private and public sector and have an MBA in Leadership and Management in Healthcare. I’m also published in the London Journal of Primary Care and the author of over 200 blogs.     For more weekly insights and advice sign up to my newsletter.    Improving the Business of Healthcare – One Episode at a Time   Thanks for tuning into this week’s episode of the Business of Healthcare Podcast. If you enjoyed this episode, head over to Apple Podcasts to subscribe, leave your honest review, and share your favourite episodes on social media. Find us on Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn or visit our website – THC Primary Care. 

Welcome back to The Business of Healthcare Podcast where this week I am talking to Alison Reid who is the CEO at Community Dental Services.  What I really liked about this interview is that I don't share the interview questions with the guest in advance and Alison was just in my opinion, so clear in articulating the values, her culture compass, the focus for the next 18 months, her leadership style and I just thought I aspire to be able to communicate like that.    There are excellent practical tips in this episode too which I am so grateful to be able to share with you all.  "I think that's probably the one thing that shocked me most working much more directly with the dental provider was that I'd often heard the team refer to extractions and it's only when you actually go to a general anaesthetic session where a three year old is coming in to have all of their baby teeth removed, because they have become too decayed to be retained that you realise we've still got a serious problem in this country with understanding how to protect our teeth for the whole of our lives".  Alison Reid - CEO Community Dental Services Mentions in this episode  Katherine Pitts Podcast Episode 160    This week on The Business of Healthcare:  Support Your Leadership Development  It’s not what you do it’s how you do it  Children’s dental services and challenges  Needing to give the public choice  Integrated Care  Health inequalities    Connect with Alison Reid  Community Dental Services Website    Work with me  I’m Tara Humphrey and I’m the founder of THC Primary Care, a leading healthcare consultancy. I provide project and network management to Primary Care Networks and consulting support to clinical leads. To date, I’ve worked with 11 Training Hubs and 12 Primary Care Networks.  I have over 20 years of project management and business development experience across the private and public sector and have an MBA in Leadership and Management in Healthcare. I’m also published in the London Journal of Primary Care and the author of over 200 blogs.   For more weekly insights and advice sign up to my newsletter.  Improving the Business of Healthcare – One Episode at a Time   Thanks for tuning into this week’s episode of the Business of Healthcare Podcast. If you enjoyed this episode, head over to Apple Podcasts to subscribe, leave your honest review, and share your favourite episodes on social media. Find us on Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn or visit our website – THC Primary Care. 

Today on the business of healthcare podcast I have the pleasure in talking about - How do we share what we do? Referring also to a great book that I have read recently - Show your Work by Austin Kleon.  Don't overthink it.  Document what you are doing.  Share the behind the scenes.  Start to jot down the things that are happening in your work life that you think could be helpful, that you think are interesting. Don't overthink it, also look at what other people are sharing. If you want some inspiration, go onto LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram. Think about the things that you like to consume and the people that you like to follow and just take some tips from them.    Mentions in the episode  Show your work by Austin Kleon  Dr Katrina Sheikh podcast episode 102  Leanne Antoine – Distinct Physio  Dr Farzana Hussain podcast episode    Work with me  I’m Tara Humphrey and I’m the founder of THC Primary Care, a leading healthcare consultancy. I provide project and network management to Primary Care Networks and consulting support to clinical leads. To date, I’ve worked with 11 Training Hubs and 12 Primary Care Networks.  I have over 20 years of project management and business development experience across the private and public sector and have an MBA in Leadership and Management in Healthcare. I’m also published in the London Journal of Primary Care and the author of over 200 blogs.     For more weekly insights and advice sign up to my newsletter.    Improving the Business of Healthcare – One Episode at a Time   Thanks for tuning into this week’s episode of the Business of Healthcare Podcast. If you enjoyed this episode, head over to Apple Podcasts to subscribe, leave your honest review, and share your favourite episodes on social media. Find us on Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn or visit our website – THC Primary Care. 

Geraldine Parker-Smith NHS Blood & Transplant  Welcome back to The Business of Healthcare Podcast where this week I am talking to Geraldine Parker-Smith who is the National Diversity Marketing Manager for NHS Blood & Transplant. We discuss all things giving blood and why it is so important for people to continue to donate.  We touch on what it means if you have sickle cell disease and why giving blood makes such a difference, and the importance of needing more donors from the black community to help support people suffering from Sickle Cell.  Mentions in this episode  Give Blood Website  NHS Blood & Transplant Website    This week on The Business of Healthcare:  NHS Blood & Transplant & their initiatives   How you can get involved  Sickle Cell Disease & the impact on health  Increasing donations in the black community  Working for an organisation for over 20 years and how it feels    Work with me  I’m Tara Humphrey and I’m the founder of THC Primary Care, a leading healthcare consultancy. I provide project and network management to Primary Care Networks and consulting support to clinical leads. To date, I’ve worked with 11 Training Hubs and 12 Primary Care Networks.  I have over 20 years of project management and business development experience across the private and public sector and have an MBA in Leadership and Management in Healthcare. I’m also published in the London Journal of Primary Care and the author of over 200 blogs.   For more weekly insights and advice sign up to my newsletter.  Improving the Business of Healthcare – One Episode at a Time   Thanks for tuning into this week’s episode of the Business of Healthcare Podcast. If you enjoyed this episode, head over to Apple Podcasts to subscribe, leave your honest review, and share your favourite episodes on social media. Find us on Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn or visit our website – THC Primary Care. 

This week on The Business of Healthcare Podcast I wanted to discuss the importance of making time to meet with your team even when you feel like there is no time.    A few of the questions that I discuss 👇    What is the importance of getting more time to talk to get to know each other?    What do you prioritise?    When we come together as a team, I have some quick ways to kickstart the meeting, you can ask what is working well, what are we finding challenging at the moment? and how have we overcome these challenges? You could ask your team to share an example of how a colleague has supported them recently too.    It really is huge making the commitment to prioritise your team and your business.    Work with me  I’m Tara Humphrey and I’m the founder of THC Primary Care, a leading healthcare consultancy. I provide project and network management to Primary Care Networks and consulting support to clinical leads. To date, I’ve worked with 11 Training Hubs and 12 Primary Care Networks.  I have over 20 years of project management and business development experience across the private and public sector and have an MBA in Leadership and Management in Healthcare. I’m also published in the London Journal of Primary Care and the author of over 200 blogs.     For more weekly insights and advice sign up to my newsletter.  Improving the Business of Healthcare – One Episode at a Time   Thanks for tuning into this week’s episode of the Business of Healthcare Podcast. If you enjoyed this episode, head over to Apple Podcasts to subscribe, leave your honest review, and share your favourite episodes on social media. Find us on Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn or visit our website – THC Primary Care. 

Welcome back to The Business of Healthcare Podcast episode 172 where I have the pleasure of speaking with Ziad Laklouk   Ziad is a pharmacist, and he also holds a position at Soar Beyond. In this interview, Ziad shares his pharmacy journey and what led him into working in primary care networks and for Soar Beyond which is a private organisation providing workforce solutions for pharmacists and other primary care network roles. Ziad provided some really helpful advice around what to do when getting started into a new role, which is universal advice and really, really helpful.     Mentions in this episode  Contact THC if you require more information on recruiting pharmacists    This week on The Business of Healthcare:  Who is Ziad Laklouk  What to do when getting started  Selling and promoting  Integrating new roles  Long term vision  Fear of unknown  Support for the development of Pharmacists  Connect with Neil Baulita  Ziad Laklouk LinkedIn   Soar Beyond website - meet the team    Work with me  I’m Tara Humphrey and I’m the founder of THC Primary Care, a leading healthcare consultancy. I provide project and network management to Primary Care Networks and consulting support to clinical leads. To date, I’ve worked with 11 Training Hubs and 12 Primary Care Networks.  I have over 20 years of project management and business development experience across the private and public sector and have an MBA in Leadership and Management in Healthcare. I’m also published in the London Journal of Primary Care and the author of over 200 blogs.   For more weekly insights and advice sign up to my newsletter.  Improving the Business of Healthcare – One Episode at a Time   Thanks for tuning into this week’s episode of the Business of Healthcare Podcast. If you enjoyed this episode, head over to Apple Podcasts to subscribe, leave your honest review, and share your favourite episodes on social media. Find us on Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn or visit our website – THC Primary Care. 

#171 Understanding the context you work within   So in this podcast, I just wanted to really briefly give my take on why it's so important we really understand and study the context that we work within.  We are all the centre of our own universe and we all want people to do what we want them to do and sometimes we forget that we are working in a complex adaptive system.  Topics to listen out for;  Understand the culture of the organisation  Planning for the winter  The media  Leadership training    Work with me  I’m Tara Humphrey and I’m the founder of THC Primary Care, a leading healthcare consultancy. I provide project and network management to Primary Care Networks and consulting support to clinical leads. To date, I’ve worked with 11 Training Hubs and 12 Primary Care Networks.  I have over 20 years of project management and business development experience across the private and public sector and have an MBA in Leadership and Management in Healthcare. I’m also published in the London Journal of Primary Care and the author of over 200 blogs.   For more weekly insights and advice sign up to my newsletter.  Improving the Business of Healthcare – One Episode at a Time   Thanks for tuning into this week’s episode of the Business of Healthcare Podcast. If you enjoyed this episode, head over to Apple Podcasts to subscribe, leave your honest review, and share your favourite episodes on social media. Find us on Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn or visit our website – THC Primary Care. 

Welcome back to the Business of Healthcare Podcast – where I had the absolute pleasure of interviewing Neil Baulita.  Neil is a NHS Governor, Co-Chairman LGBTQ network and Sexual Well-Being Specialist at King’s College NHS Foundation Hospital. A Writer, Speaker, Human Rights Activist and Health Equity campaigner.   We had a very open and honest conversation around a some of the things the LGBTQ community face working within the NHS today and what is being done to change and challenge these issues. Mentions in this episode Cedi Frederick Episode 156   This week on The Business of Healthcare:  Who is Neil Baulita  LGBTQ issues within the NHS  Worrying that we will get things wrong  Being “passable”  Examples of prejudice & discrimination  Transitioning & lack of policies  Pride in Practice  Being a Co – Chairman and what it means  Challenging people when inappropriate things are said  What is an activist?   Connect with Neil Baulita  On LinkedIn   On Twitter  On Instagram    Work with me  I’m Tara Humphrey and I’m the founder of THC Primary Care, a leading healthcare consultancy. I provide project and network management to Primary Care Networks and consulting support to clinical leads. To date, I’ve worked with 11 Training Hubs and 12 Primary Care Networks.  I have over 20 years of project management and business development experience across the private and public sector and have an MBA in Leadership and Management in Healthcare. I’m also published in the London Journal of Primary Care and the author of over 200 blogs.   For more weekly insights and advice sign up to my newsletter.  Improving the Business of Healthcare – One Episode at a Time   Thanks for tuning into this week’s episode of the Business of Healthcare Podcast. If you enjoyed this episode, head over to Apple Podcasts to subscribe, leave your honest review, and share your favourite episodes on social media. Find us on Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn or visit our website – THC Primary Care. 

BH169 – Demand, Capacity & Variation  In this short solo episode, I am going to be talking about Demand, Capacity & Variation which was inspired from a session I attended recently.  Sometimes that means saying no, sometimes that's investing, also thinking about when does it need to be a standard operating procedure? When do we need to just trust people to get on with the job and skillsets in training and expectations and wellbeing.    Topics to listen out for;  Collecting Data  Why there is variation  Peoples behaviours  Standardised Processes    Work with me  I’m Tara Humphrey and I’m the founder of THC Primary Care, a leading healthcare consultancy. I provide project and network management to Primary Care Networks and consulting support to clinical leads. To date, I’ve worked with 11 Training Hubs and 12 Primary Care Networks.  I have over 20 years of project management and business development experience across the private and public sector and have an MBA in Leadership and Management in Healthcare. I’m also published in the London Journal of Primary Care and the author of over 200 blogs.     For more weekly insights and advice sign up to my newsletter.    Improving the Business of Healthcare – One Episode at a Time   Thanks for tuning into this week’s episode of the Business of Healthcare Podcast. If you enjoyed this episode, head over to Apple Podcasts to subscribe, leave your honest review, and share your favourite episodes on social media. Find us on Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn or visit our website – THC Primary Care.