Health On The Line

What does the health and care system need from the Long Term Plan refresh? In a special episode recorded at NHS ConfedExpo, Matthew Taylor takes soundings from system leaders, exploring their hopes and fears for updates to the plan. Hear from Simon Whitehouse, chief executive designate for Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin ICB; Louise Ansari, national director of Healthwatch England; and Omotajo Kufeji, a GP partner and clinical director for The Bridge PCN, Milton Keynes, as they consider what needs to be different and how it can resonate with system partners, staff and service users. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What does the future hold for primary care? NHS England and NHS Improvement’s medical director for primary care Dr Nikki Kanani sits down with Matthew Taylor to discuss multidisciplinary teams in primary care, lessons from the pandemic, the Fuller Stocktake and shifting further towards a population health management approach. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In the latest Health on the Line episode, Gregor Henderson, former director of Mental Health for Public Health England and strategic adviser to on-line platform Togetherall, talks to Matthew about the challenges of digital innovation in mental health, the link between health inequalities and mental health and why the need to invest in the wider determinants of mental health is vital. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In the latest Health on the Line episode, Professor Donna Hall, architect of the well-known ‘Wigan deal’ and Chair of Bolton NHS Foundation Trust talks to Matthew Taylor about the importance of community engagement in systems as part of our Integration and Innovation in Action series. She talks about the need to have different conversations with people to build resilient communities and resilient individuals, and the work she is involved in in investing in the first 1,000 days of life as a key point of intervention. She also talks about the need for integrated care systems to be clear about what they are going to do, and to ask themselves the honest question, how integrated are we?   Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This episode covers the important issue of patient safety. Matthew Taylor talks to campaigner Susanna Stanford about how a traumatic personal experience of the health service changed her. It led her to use what happened to talk with clinicians and medical students about the patient perspective when things might go wrong. She has used her experience positively to encourage a more open culture in the health service where clinicians can support one another to help prevent errors, and to deal with them better when they occur. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In the latest Health on the Line episode, Matthew Taylor speaks to Sir Richard Leese, chair designate of Greater Manchester Integrated Care Board, about provider collaboratives and tough decisions, lessons the system has learned from COVID-19, and the extent to which central government 'gets' devolution. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In the latest Health on the Line episode, Matthew speaks to Charlotte Augst, CEO of National Voices, the leading coalition of health and social care charities in England with more than 190 members covering a diverse range of health conditions and communities. Charlotte talks pandemic, living with Covid, health inequalities and a new National Voices initiative to link people with lived experience of the health service with health professionals to help inform their approach to providing health and care. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Our latest Health on the Line podcast episode is with Confed member Professor Kiran Patel, Chief Medical Officer, Deputy CEO and Consultant cardiologist at University Hospitals of Coventry and Warwickshire. He talks with Matthew about population health as part of our Integration and Innovation in Action series, his passion for addressing health inequalities and how he believes elective recovery and health inequalities can be bed fellows. He also says there needs to be the right balance between localism and nationalism when discussing the role of the centre, but that the health service is at an exciting stage where it can really explore the benefits of digital delivery.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Newcastle Hospitals received the UK’s first coronavirus patients in January 2020. Two years on and with the NHS dealing with the biggest backlog it has ever faced, the trust’s chief executive, Dame Jackie Daniel, explores why bolder thinking is needed to tackle spiralling waiting lists. Sitting down with Matthew Taylor, Dame Jackie gets candid about the challenges of her role, striking the right balance between central and local leadership, and why the health sector needs to ‘lean in’ when working with local authorities. Speaking shortly after the debut of the Channel 4 documentary Geordie Hospital, she shares why letting the cameras in was so important. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Vaccines have proved a vital lifeline in the fightback against COVID-19, with our collective safety largely reliant on the efficacy of vaccines developed by pharmaceuticals companies. For the pharmaceutical sector, as in the healthcare sector, innovation has been the byword for the pandemic response. But what have been the lessons? And how might the NHS and pharmaceutical sector work in partnership to confront pressing healthcare challenges?Uday Bose, country managing director and head of human Pharma at Boehringer Ingelheim UK & Ireland, sits down with Matthew Taylor to consider the issues. Uday, who also chairs the European Medicines Group, also explores how pharmaceuticals are increasingly working with patients and taking account of patient experience. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.