Welcome to the Mental Elf podcast, which features interviews with leading experts in mental health: researchers, clinicians, practitioners and experts by experience. I will help you keep up to date with the latest reliable mental health research. Our podcasts are recorded at major mental health events and conferences, and explore a wide range of topics relevant to people who work in mental health and related fields. Check out the Mental Elf website for thousands of free blogs summarising the ...
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Rob Waller: Using routine clinical data to support mental health research
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The Mental Elf previews the NHS Research Scotland Mental Health Network Annual Scientific Meeting with Dr. Rob Waller, Consultant Psychiatrist from NHS Lothian. They discuss the rapid digital transformation in NHS mental health services triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly the implementation of video consultations and electronic records…
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Deborah Cairns: Addressing the health inequalities faced by people with learning disabilities
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Join Douglas Badenoch and Prof. Deborah Cairns from the Scottish Learning Disabilities Observatory as they delve into the health disparities faced by those with learning disabilities. In this podcast preview, Deborah shares groundbreaking research findings from comprehensive health checks, cancer studies, and big data analysis. Learn how collaborat…
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Veenu Gupta: The Evolution of Lived Experience Roles #NRSMH24
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This Mental Elf podcast is part of the NHS Research Scotland Mental Health Network's Annual Scientific Meeting, 7th November 2024. Host Douglas speaks with Dr. Veenu Gupta, Assistant Professor at Durham University, about the burgeoning role of the Lived Experience Workforce in mental health research. Dr. Gupta, who has personal experience with psyc…
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Eco-anxiety to agency: mental health in the age of climate change
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As climate change accelerates, so does the mental distress it causes. In this episode, we interview Dr. Elizabeth Marks and Dr. Kris De Meyer to explore the critical intersection between mental health and climate change. We discuss eco-anxiety - the difficult emotions caused by direct or indirect exposure to climate change - and consider to what ex…
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From Chekhov to Psychedelics: A Conversation with Femi Oyebode
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Welcome to the final episode of the British Association for Psychopharmacology 50th Anniversary Summer Meeting Podcast. In this episode, Andre is joined by Professor Femi Oyebode from the University of Birmingham. They discuss a broad range of topics, from Anton Chekhov's novella 'Ward Number Six' to the future of psychedelic medicine in psychiatry…
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From Prozac to Performance: Dan Stein Discusses Cosmetic Psychopharmacology
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Exploring Cosmetic Psychopharmacology with Professor Dan Stein | BAP2024 Podcast Episode 6 Welcome to episode six of the BAP 2024 Podcast! Join André from The Mental Elf as he interviews Professor Dan Stein from the University of Cape Town in South Africa. They discuss the intriguing topic of cosmetic psychopharmacology and its implications on cogn…
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Anthony Bateman on Mentalizing and 'Personality Disorders'
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In episode four of the 2024 BIGSPD Podcast, André from The Mental Elf speaks with Anthony Bateman, a visiting professor at UCL and consultant at the Anna Freud Centre. Bateman discusses the concept of mentalizing, its role in human behavior, and the effectiveness of mentalization-based treatment (MBT) for conditions like borderline personality diso…
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Mel Ball - The Wind and the Sun: A Fable of Lived Experience Leadership
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In this episode of the BIGSPD Podcast, host André interviews Mel Ball, the first board-level Director for Lived Experience in the NHS. Mel shares her journey from grassroots peer support to her current leadership role, highlighting the importance of lived experience in transforming NHS services. She discusses the cultural changes required for effec…
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David Nutt on Alcohol: The Ultimate Psychopharmacological Challenge
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In episode five of the BAP 2024 podcast, Professor David Nutt, a renowned psychiatrist and psychopharmacologist from Imperial College London, delves into the psychopharmacological aspects of alcohol. David Nutt is a past president of the British Association for Psychopharmacology and of the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology. Hosted by And…
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Understanding Biological Pathways Towards ADHD: Barbara Franke's 40-Year Tour of ADHD Research #BAP2024
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In this episode of the BAP Podcast, host André from the Mental Elf interviews Professor Barbara Franke, a molecular biologist from Radboud University in Nijmegen, about the complexities of ADHD. Franke discusses the genetic and environmental factors contributing to ADHD, the challenges of diagnosing the disorder in different populations, and the im…
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Melanie Abas - Global mental health and the ambition to end HIV/AIDS
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Welcome to the third and final episode of the 2024 IoPPN Research Festival podcast. Every year the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience hosts a 1 day festival that brings together a really diverse mix of mental health scientists, to present their work and learn from each other. The theme this year is Origins and New Beginnings. Alon…
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Sonia Johnson - What does research tell us about how care and support for people with a 'personality disorder' diagnosis could be improved?
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Sonia Johnson is Professor of Social and Community Psychiatry at UCL, Director of the NIHR Policy Research Unit for Mental Health, and a Consultant Psychiatrist who has worked for over 20 years in an Early Intervention Service for Psychosis. Episode 2 of the 2024 BIGSPD podcast. BIGSPD is the British and Irish Group for the Study of Personality Dis…
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Edgar Jones - The roots of research excellence at the Maudsley-IoPPN
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Welcome to episode 2 of the IoPPN Research Festival podcast. The festival takes place in South London on Wednesday 15th May 2024, and this year the theme is Origins and New Beginnings and there will be keynote talks from Melanie Abas, Emily Simonoff and Edgar Jones. We're focusing on origins in this second podcast episode, as we meet Edgar Jones, P…
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Anne Lingford-Hughes, Belinda Lennox & Bill Deakin
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Welcome to a new episode of the BAP podcast. The British Association for Psychopharmacology are celebrating their 50th anniversary in 2024. We'll be joining them in Birmingham for their annual summer meeting, which takes place from the 21st to the 24th of July. This episode of the podcast features three people who've been involved with BAP for many…
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Emily Simonoff - The King’s Maudsley Partnership for Children and Young People
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Professor Emily Simonoff is Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN). In this podcast, she speaks to André Tomlin from the Mental Elf about the new King’s Maudsley Partnership for Children and Young People https://www.kingsmaudsley.org You can hear more from Prof Simonoff at th…
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Gavin Davidson - Personality disorder, mental capacity and compulsory intervention
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Prof Gavin Davidson from Queen’s University Belfast and Dr Iain McDougall and Steph Kerr from Belfast Health and Social Care Trust talk about personality disorder, mental capacity and compulsory intervention on episode 1 of the 2024 BIGSPD podcast. BIGSPD is the British and Irish Group for the Study of Personality Disorder and their annual conferen…
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David Baldwin and Catherine Harmer - Previewing the #BAP2024 Summer Meeting
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In this podcast conversation, Professor David Baldwin (President of the British Association for Psychopharmacology) and Professor Catherine Harmer (President Elect of the BAP) preview the 2024 Summer Meeting which will take place in Birmingham on 21st - 24th July 2024 at the University of Birmingham: https://www.bap.org.uk/BAP2024 They speak about …
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John Krystal - Ketamine for depression #BAP2024
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Professor John Krystal will be giving a Guest Lecture at the 2024 British Association for Psychopharmacology Summer Meeting in Birmingham on 24th July 2024. His talk is entitled: Linking depression pathophysiology to the mechanism of action of ketamine and “next generation” treatments. In this 18-minute podcast, André Tomlin from The Mental Elf ask…
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Heather O'Mahen - Are perinatal community mental health teams effective? What's the evidence?
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Professor Heather O'Mahen from the University of Exeter previews her talk at the 2024 UK and Ireland Marcé Society Annual Conference in London on 25th January: Are perinatal community mental health teams effective? What's the evidence? Find out more about the International Marcé Society for Perinatal Mental Health https://marcesociety.com/regional-…
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Zoë Darwin and Jacob Stokoe - Gestational and non-gestational parents: transcending existing perinatal mental health frameworks
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Zoë Darwin from the University of Huddersfield and Jacob Stokoe from Transparent Change preview their talk at the 2024 UK and Ireland Marcé Society Annual Conference in London on 25th January: Gestational and non-gestational parents: transcending existing perinatal mental health frameworks. Find out more about the International Marcé Society for Pe…
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PPI in the AVATAR2 Trial - Alie Phiri, Leonie Richardson and Stephanie Allan
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Effective patient and public involvement (PPI) is crucial to conducting research that meets the needs and values of patients. In this podcast, we hear from a team of researchers and people with lived experience about getting involved in the AVATAR2 trial. This study is investigating the effects of digital avatar therapy in people with psychosis who…
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Sustainability and climate change - Roslyn Morgan and Kate Charlesworth #Quality2023
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Roslyn Morgan and Kate Charlesworth speak to Laura Hemming from The Mental Elf about their sessions at the Quality Forum in Melbourne in October 2023. Roslyn Morgan is the ANMF (Vic Branch) Environmental Health Officer and her talk at #Quality2023 in Melbourne is entitled: Workplace Sustainability and Environmental Reform, Be the change. Dr Kate Ch…
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Danny Smith on investigating the role of light, circadian rhythms and sleep in bipolar disorder
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Professor Daniel Smith from Edinburgh University gives a short overview of bipolar disorder, and introduces two studies he is working on to investigate the role of light, circadian rhythms and sleep in bipolar disorder, and their effect on the action of lithium as a treatment. This podcast is part of the Annual Scientific Meeting of NHS Research Sc…
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Simon Hackett on Arts Psychotherapy in people with Intellectual Disabilities - #NRSMH23
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Simon Hackett sits down with Douglas Badenoch to discuss Arts Psychotherapy for people with Intellectual Disabilities. This recording was made as a preview to the Annual Scientific Meeting of NHS Research Scotland's Mental Health Network on 30th October 2023. Find out more about the event. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information…
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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion - People Who Are Homeless: Claire Doherty and Jennie Hutton
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Claire Doherty and Jennie Hutton speak to Laura Hemming from The Mental Elf about their sessions at the Quality Forum in Melbourne in October 2023. Claire Doherty is Senior Research and Evaluation Officer at St Vincent's Hospital in Melbourne. Jennie Hutton is an Emergency Physician and Hon Senior Research Fellow at the Victorian Virtual Emergency …
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Bryn Lloyd Evans on Loneliness and Social Prescribing #NRSMH23
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Professor Bryn Lloyd Evans from UCL talks to Douglas Badenoch about his clinical work and research on loneliness and social prescribing in people with severe mental illness. Bryn will be presenting further details of his work at the #NRSMH23 Annual Scientific Meeting on 30 October 2023. Find out more information about the event Hosted on Acast. See…
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People powered change: Bianca Forrester and Paresh Dawda
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Bianca Forrester and Paresh Dawda speak to Laura Hemming from The Mental Elf about their sessions at the Quality Forum in Melbourne in October 2023. Bianca Forrester is a GP Academic at the Western Victoria Primary Health Network. Her talk at the Quality Forum in Melbourne is entitled: "Towards a regional primary care learning health system: from c…
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This audio documentary accompanies an online and in person photo exhibition, which details the experiences of diverse people detained under the Mental Health Act. Sixty people took part in the project led by Oxford University, and funded by the NIHR Policy Research Programme, which captured their reflections on the process of detention and life on …
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Civility and kindness in healthcare: Catherine Crock and Chris Turner
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Catherine Crock and Chris Turner speak to Laura Hemming from The Mental Elf about their sessions at the Quality Forum in Melbourne in October 2023. ProfessorCatherine Crock AM is a Physician at the Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne and Chair of the Hush Foundation and Gathering of Kindness. Her talk at the conference is entitled: "Kindness in ac…
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Patient safety and co-creation: Deon York and Ashfaq Chauhan
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Deon York and Ashfaq Chauhan speak to Laura Hemming from The Mental Elf about their sessions at the Quality Forum in Melbourne in October 2023. Deon York is Director of Consumer Engagement at Te Tāhū Hauora Health Quality & Safety Commission New Zealand. Deon's talk at the Quality Forum in Melbourne will be on: Expertise by experience: A national c…
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Louis Appleby - Suicide Prevention: is it possible? #IoMHconf23
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Students from the Wellcome Trust PhD in Mental Health Science at UCL speak to Prof Sir Louis Appleby from the University of Manchester before his talk at the 2023 UCL Institute of Mental Health Conference. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Scott Kim - Assisted Suicide and mental disorder #IoMHconf23
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Students from the Wellcome Trust PhD in Mental Health Science at UCL speak to Dr Scott Kim from the US National Institutes of Health before his talk at the 2023 UCL Institute of Mental Health Conference. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Hamish McAllister-Williams - The clinical utility and potential generalisability of the “difficult to treat...” concept #BAP2023
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Prof Hamish McAllister-Williams from Newcastle University and the Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust, previews his BAP Summer Meeting plenary on the clinical utility and potential generalisability of the “difficult to treat...” concept, which includes a talk from him on applying the model of care for difficult to treat depr…
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Lucy Rocca and Julia Sinclair - Alcohol: how much is too much? #BAP2023
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Lucy Rocca from Soberistas and Prof Julia Sinclair from the University of Southampton preview their Public Lecture, which is taking place at the British Association for Psychopharmacology (BAP) Summer Meeting in Manchester on 24th July 2023. Find out more by visiting the BAP2023 website, which includes the full programme and details of how to parti…
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David Baldwin: Previewing #BAP2023 - the British Association for Psychopharmacology Summer Meeting
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The President of the British Association for Psychopharmacology (BAP) helps us prepare for the annual BAP Summer Meeting, which is taking place in Manchester on 23-26 July 2023. Find out more by visiting the BAP2023 website, which includes the full programme and details of how to participate: https://www.bap.org.uk/BAP2023 Hosted on Acast. See acas…
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Satbinder Kaul Bhogal - The Importance of Exploring Intersectionality in Addressing Harm in Services #BIGSPD23
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Before her keynote talk at the 2023 BIGSPD conference in Glasgow, Dr Satbinder Kaul Bhogal, talks about the importance of exploring intersectionality in addressing harm in services. Dr Satbinder Kaur Bhogal, Clinical Psychologist. Dr Kaur Bhogal has worked for over 20 years within the field of Mental Health in various organisations. She has led ser…
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Daniel Taggart - Lessons from the Truth Project #BIGSPD23
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Before his keynote talk at the 2023 BIGSPD conference in Glasgow, Dr Daniel Taggart, from the University of Essex, talks about mental health provision for adult survivors in the wake of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) - lessons from the Truth Project. Dr Daniel Taggart, Senior Lecturer in Clinical Psychology, University of E…
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Giles Newton-Howes - Is the label too taxing? Where to for the diagnosis personality disorder #BIGSPD23
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Before his keynote talk at the 2023 BIGSPD conference in Glasgow, Prof Giles Newton-Howes from the University of Otago in New Zealand, talks about the history of the term personality disorder and how thinking about taxonomy can help us consider the benefits and harms of diagnosis. Professor Giles Newton-Howes, Professor & Consultant Psychiatrist, U…
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Oscar Marin Parra - Cortical interneurons in health and disease
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Speaking before his keynote talk at the 2023 IoPPN Research Festival, Professor Oscar Marin talks about his work investigating the development of the cerebral cortex in health and disease, specifically how alterations in the development of the cerebral cortex may predispose humans to schizophrenia or autism. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy f…
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Janet Treasure - Eating disorders: a paradigm of a psychosomatic illness
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Speaking before her keynote talk at the 2023 IoPPN Research Festival, Professor Janet Treasure talks about the history of eating disorders, how services and research have developed over the last 30 years, and the problems she is now trying to solve in her work at KCL. The Centre for Research in Eating and Weight Disorders (CREW) aims to find out mo…
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Robin Murray - Half a Century to emerge from the Fog of Schizophrenia
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Speaking before his keynote talk at the 2023 IoPPN Research Festival, Professor Sir Robin Murray reflects on his 50 years working as a psychiatrist and researcher. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Learning from adverse events - Jesper Ekberg and Tracey Herlihey
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Jesper Ekberg (Strategy for Health Lead; Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions (SALAR), Sweden) and Tracey Herlihey (Head of Patient Safety Incident Response Policy; NHS England) talk about precision and passion – the art of making population health actionable; and learning from patient and relative reported adverse events. Jesper an…
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Patient involvement - Joan Russell, Douglas Findlay, Charlotte Verner Rossing, Radha Sundaram #Quality2023
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Joan Russell (NHS England), Douglas Findlay (Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust), Charlotte Verner Rossing (Danish College of Pharmacy Practice) and Radha Sundaram (NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde) talk about involving and working in partnership with patients in patient safety; building capacity to understand the patient, and yourself; and care at …
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Equity - Alice Forsythe, Cian Wade & Mando Watson #Quality2023
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Alice Forsythe (Virginia Mason Institute), Cian Wade (Harvard School of Public Health) and Mando Watson (Connecting Care for Children) talk about embedding equity into leadership and practice management, reducing health inequalities through collaboration, and how action on patient safety can reduce health inequalities. Alice, Kian and Mando will be…
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Wellbeing - Göran Lindahl, Cat Chatfield & Paul Barach #Quality2023
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Göran Lindahl (Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden), Cat Chatfield (Director of Health Services Research UK) & Paul Barach (Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, US) talk about the challenges currently facing health systems around the world, in terms of recruitment and retention of health professionals, and staff wellbeing. T…
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Sustainability - Jason Leitch & Laura Wilson #Quality2023
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Jason Leitch (National Clinical Director for Scotland) and Laura Wilson (Director for Scotland for the Royal Pharmaceutical Society) talk about the impact that our healthcare systems have on climate change, the commitments made to address these problems, and what everyone (from big corporations to frontline practitioners) can do to make our healthc…
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Welcome to the podcast for the International Forum on Quality and Safety in Healthcare https://internationalforum.bmj.com/copenhagen/ Jointly organised by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) and BMJ, the International Forum has a rich history of supporting and energising the international movement for health and care improvement. From 30…
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Deanna Van Buren is an award-winning architect and activist recognized internationally for her leadership in using architecture, design, and real estate innovations to address the social inequities behind the mass incarceration crisis. Van Buren is co-founder of Designing Justice + Designing Spaces, an architecture and design firm with the mission …
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GameChange VR - Automated Virtual Reality Therapy for Psychosis
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Alex Kenny (Peer Researcher) and Jessica Bond (Senior Researcher) from the McPin Foundation talk about the patient experience of gameChange using a peer research approach. Dr Sinéad Lambe, Research Clinical Psychologist & NIHR Doctoral Fellow at the University of Oxford presents the results from the gameChange trial and next steps with implementati…
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Stefan Rennick-Egglestone - The NEON study
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Dr Stefan Rennick-Egglestone, Senior Research Fellow at the University of Nottingham Institute of Mental Health, speaks about the NEON study (Narrative Experiences Online) after his talk at the MindTech conference in London on 24th November 2022. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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