"What matters to you?"

‘What matters to you?’ is a brilliant global movement, whereby healthcare professionals ask patients what matters to them, in terms of personalising healthcare.

It is about listening and hopefully understanding what matters to the patient in the larger context of their life. This will vary greatly between individuals – people’s priorities are different. Their circumstances, their values, their attitudes are unique. What matters toeach of them will all be different.

It is brilliant that this is being increasingly recognised as being important in health care, rather than people just being seen as medical problems to fix, in a 'one size fits all' type approach.

Thursday 9 June was World What matters to you?’ day, so, as my contribution for 2022, I have made this podcast episode exploring this theme, some of my own thoughts and experiences, and bringing in lots of clips of people talking about what this really means to them.

The power of audio - let's listen to the fantastic things people are already sharing, without constantly needing to re-invent the wheel and saying the same (often painful things) over and over again.

I hope you find it thought-provoking and engaging.

Lots of shoutouts to podcast contributors and listeners. We have listeners from all around the world! THANK YOU!! Please leave a review.

Extracts taken from:
Alison Wright - Episode 30 - personalising maternity care
Rachel Jury - Episode 17 - being believed
Fab NHS Stuff - setting up #MatExp #WhoseShoes campaign page - Terri Porrett Episode 12
Pandemic poems - Episode 5

Other links and resources mentioned in the podcast:
#MatExp #WhoseShoes Fab NHS Stuff campaign page
Fab NHS Stuff - 'Wild Card - Whose Shoes' poetry 'event in a tent'  24/11/21
Our  'What Matters to you? presentation  with Florence Wilcock for the RCOG (there will be an updated video after our 2022 @BICSocs presentation )

Shoutouts include: Twitter IDs -  @AliWrightObGyn, @Rocking2Stomas,  @MountfordJames, @FabNHSStuff  @gbpto, @RoyLilley, @FWmaternity, @RCObsGyn, @BICSoc, @PosBirthMidwife, @BeckyMalby, @fhussain73, @Gaynora, @NatMatVoicesorg, @Ldn_Ambulance, @SunitaS2016
... and all the contributors and listeners of the podcast so far!

Find me on Twitter: @WhoseShoes and @WildCardWS.
Dive into https://padlet.com/WhoseShoes/overview and nutshellcomms.co.uk  to find out more about the #WhoseShoes approach to coproduction.

Artwork aided and abetted by Anna Geyer, New Possibilities  www.newpossibilities.co.uk

So,  Amanda Pritchard, Chief Executive of the NHS, I hope you're enjoying the 'Wild Card Whose Shoes' series. Don't forget, I set up this podcast series, especially for you. Perhaps you're one of the listeners flagged up in the tantalizing statistics. But as we know, data only comes alive when we have human stories. And so huge thanks to everyone helping me to tell them here.

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Connect with me - Gill Phillips - on LinkedIn, especially if you are interested in our brand new #CYPWhoseShoes resources or our well-established #MatExp (maternity experience) work.

I tweet (not so much these days!) as @WhoseShoes  and am on Instagram as @WhoseShoesUK and @WildCardWS.

Please recommend 'Wild Card - Whose Shoes' to others who enjoy hearing passionate people talk about their experiences of improving health care.