NHS England Podcast

Tune into the South west Allied Health Professions (AHPs) 2024 Podcast series, featuring 12 episodes. Recorded at Westonbirt Arboretum, the series includes 8 live campfire stories and 4 additional episodes. AHPs from across the South West share stories that connect, inspire, and elevate, showcasing how they implement the AHPs Deliver strategy for England. A fabulous adventure! Emma, Jo and Rachel discuss their experience of leadership and split placement models, with 360 reflections on the impact and learning across the career span. In this episode you will hear the experience of a split leadership/ clinical placement from AHPs at different seats at the placement table. By sharing their reflections, occupational therapists discuss the impact, value and challenges of leadership placements and AHP leadership development. This podcast was facilitated by Gina Sargeant the South West Chief Allied Health Professional (AHP) for NHS England and focused on the experiences of Emma Young a final year Occupational Therapy Student at Bournemouth University, Jo Mengell an Occupational Therapist and Service Manager at Dorset Healthcare Trust and Rachel Christian-Edwards an Occupational Therapist and Professional Allied Health Professions Lead at Dorset Healthcare Trust. A transcript of this episode is available on our website - https://www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/ep11-360-reflections-leadership-across-the-career-span-exploring-the-value-of-clinical-leadership-split-placement-models/ Contact us: england.ahpwte.sw@nhs.net

Tune into the South west Allied Health Professions (AHPs) 2024 Podcast series, featuring 12 episodes. Recorded at Westonbirt Arboretum, the series includes 8 live campfire stories and 4 additional episodes. AHPs from across the South West share stories that connect, inspire, and elevate, showcasing how they implement the AHPs Deliver strategy for England. Welcome to “These feet are made for walking”, the campfire conversation that will inspire you to embrace your own barefoot adventure making space and time to: CONNECT with yourself, with others, and with your surroundings; INSPIRE your thoughts, words and actions; ELEVATE yourself-personally, with your peers and professionally. In this episode Nicola Dowdeswell a community Mental Health Physiotherapist and a Research Champion for Gloucestershire Health & Care NHS FT and Anna McNuff, adventurer, mischief maker and author of Barefoot Britain will be talking about our amazing feet, sharing their own barefoot adventures and inviting you wherever you are listening to take off your socks and shoes and accept the barefoot challenge! A transcript of this episode is available on our website - https://www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/ep9-these-feet-are-made-for-walking/ Contact us: england.ahpwte.sw@nhs.net

Tune into the South west Allied Health Professions (AHPs) 2024 Podcast series, featuring 12 episodes. Recorded at Westonbirt Arboretum, the series includes 8 live campfire stories and 4 additional episodes. AHPs from across the South West share stories that connect, inspire, and elevate, showcasing how they implement the AHPs Deliver strategy for England. Listen to the story of one man’s journey from a tragic accident and discharge from hospital through to managing in the community, seeking a different, more accessible home and receiving major adaptations. In this episode Neil Withnell a Specialist Housing Occupational Therapist at Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust talks about his role developing services related to Housing and people with disabilities. Neil links the experiences of a patient to the work he does to improve the experience of people with disabilities receiving housing and adaptation services. It’s a challenging tale of delay and frustration but one that ultimately motivates Neil to seek solutions across a range of organisations, pushed on by his patient’s courage, to connect with other stakeholders to inspire positive change. A transcript of this episode is available on our website - https://www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/ep2-disabling-barriers-in-the-home-neil-withnell-2/ Contact us: england.ahpwte.sw@nhs.net

Tune into the South west Allied Health Professions (AHPs) 2024 Podcast series, featuring 12 episodes. Recorded at Westonbirt Arboretum, the series includes 8 live campfire stories and 4 additional episodes. AHPs from across the South West share stories that connect, inspire, and elevate, showcasing how they implement the AHPs Deliver strategy for England. You’re invited to listen to a campfire conversation on experienced based, co-designed exploration of psychological wellbeing at work. Kathryn Bamforth the Trust Lead Research AHP and Clinical Research Delivery Team Lead at Torbay & South Devon NHS Foundation Trust and a Physiotherapist by background, shares her research with you and encourages you to be curious about finding out what wellbeing at work means for you. A transcript of this episode is available on our website - https://www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/ep5-what-does-wellbeing-mean-to-you-kathryn-bamforth/ Contact us: england.ahpwte.sw@nhs.net

Tune into the South west Allied Health Professions (AHPs) 2024 Podcast series, featuring 12 episodes. Recorded at Westonbirt Arboretum, the series includes 8 live campfire stories and 4 additional episodes. AHPs from across the South West share stories that connect, inspire, and elevate, showcasing how they implement the AHPs Deliver strategy for England. At the far end of the city of Gloucester there was a baron, neglected allotment that was overgrown with weeds. Amongst the weeds, the outline of a long-forgotten cabin and some greenhouse shaped objects could be seen in the distance. It was obvious the place was once loved, but those times had clearly passed. Vicky wiped the cobweb encrusted sign near the gates – sun faded and tired, it read – Severn Enterprise. “Oh, that’s the old sheltered workshop that used to be here – it closed years ago, shame really, it gave people something purposeful and productive to do”. Vicky looked around the site that had obviously offered so much to so many and was crying out to fulfil that role once again. “Do you think we can make this something special again?” Vicky asked. “What have you got in mind?” exclaimed Robert Join Victoria Woodruff the Engagement, Activity and Physical Health Team (EAP) Team Lead/ Occupational Therapist and Robert Young, EAP Practitioner, from the Montpellier Unit – Wotton Lawn Hospital, Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS FT as they tell the story of an ever-expanding group of people who have collaboratively re-developed a therapeutic allotment resource to aid the recovery journeys of service users. The story shares the raw highs and lows of that journey and provides listeners with an insight into what the future holds. A transcript of this episode is available on our website - https://www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/ep6-growing-connections-victoria-woodruff-rob-young/ Contact us: england.ahpwte.sw@nhs.net

Tune into the South west Allied Health Professions (AHPs) 2024 Podcast series, featuring 12 episodes. Recorded at Westonbirt Arboretum, the series includes 8 live campfire stories and 4 additional episodes. AHPs from across the South West share stories that connect, inspire, and elevate, showcasing how they implement the AHPs Deliver strategy for England. This episode shares the experiences of a contemporary/role-emerging clinical placement for two occupational therapy students with the Wave Project in North Devon. The student learners Lizzie and Caoimhe, share how the placement provided the opportunity to explore the value of the space between the beachhead and the sea, and how it can be utilised to support therapeutic interventions. In a conversation with Sue Hilsden, a long-arm Occupational Therapy Supervisor and Volunteer with Wave Project North Devon, Lizzie Slater and Caoimhe Byrne students at the University of the West of England provide information on how the space has been used by adolescents, volunteers and themselves during regular surf therapy sessions. A transcript of this episode is available on our website - https://www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/ep12-liminal-spaces-and-their-therapeutic-value-1/ Contact us: england.ahpwte.sw@nhs.net

Tune into the South west Allied Health Professions (AHPs) 2024 Podcast series, featuring 12 episodes. Recorded at Westonbirt Arboretum, the series includes 8 live campfire stories and 4 additional episodes. AHPs from across the South West share stories that connect, inspire, and elevate, showcasing how they implement the AHPs Deliver strategy for England. In this podcast Abigail Patrick an ODP working as a Specialist Research Practitioner & Neurology Research Team Leader at University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust shares her alternative and unexpected career journey. From 1996 as a Project 2000 Nurse taking an agency shift in the operating theatre which inspired a love for theatres, to taking a job as a Nursing Auxiliary which led to starting operating department practitioner (ODP) training. Most ODP’s will concentrate their career within the operating theatre or perioperative environment. To be different, Abigail chose an alternative path; Anaesthetic ODP to pre-operative assessment and then into research. 10 years in Research and Abigail is now a Specialist Research Practitioner with expertise in Parkinson Disease Assessment. A transcript of this episode is available on our website - https://www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/ep8-an-unexpected-journey-of-an-odp-abigail-patrick/ Contact us: england.ahpwte.sw@nhs.net

Dr. Dianne Addei, a public health consultant and NHS England lead for sickle cell services, joins patient Chris Abdulahi, Anthony Mason, and others to discuss the transformative power of digital care plans. They share personal stories about navigating the challenges of sickle cell disease, including intense pain and mental health issues. The conversation highlights the significance of cultural sensitivities in healthcare and how the Universal Care Plan is revolutionizing patient care, providing tailored approaches for better outcomes and addressing health inequalities.

Sickle cell is a life-long debilitating condition that predominantly affects people of black African and black African Caribbean background. This podcast series explores what it is like to have sickle cell and what the NHS is doing to improve sickle cell care following publication of the No One’s Listening report. In episode 1 Dr Dianne Addei, a consultant in public health medicine and NHS England’s lead for sickle-cell services, is joined by patient, Stephanie George, and Dr Rossby Awadzi, a North-west London haematology doctor to help clinicians, patients and the public to get a better understanding of sickle cell. Stephanie explains what it is like to live with sickle cell, while Dianne and Rossby discuss the benefits of genetic blood testing ahead of blood transfusions, the sickle cell patient education programme, role of staff education and Dianne provides an update on the new NHS sickle cell disorder emergency department by-pass units. A transcript of this episode is available on our website - https://www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/transcript-podcast-1-understanding-sickle-cell-and-the-role-of-education/ Contact us: england.sicklecellreview@nhs.net

Audio version of the NHS invitation for winter flu & COVID-19 vaccinations for people aged 65 and over. A transcript of this episode is available on our website - https://www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/flu-covid-19-vaccination-audio-invitation-65/ Contact us: england.contactus@nhs.net