Everyone has a story to tell and experience to share. Our shortlisted nominees for the Individual Transformational Story of the Year Award in this year’s Self Management Awards joined Louise Rogers, Development Officer in the Self Management Team for a chat about their stories, their self-management journeys and how it feel to be nominated  for the award. This podcast was produced  in partnership with Humans of Scotland and ALLIANCE Live.

This ALLIANCE Live podcast with Kirsty MacNeil (Aberdeen Foyer IMPACT project), Aaron Slater (Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations (SCVO)) and Oonagh Brown (Scottish Commission for Learning Disability (SCLD)) responds to the six provocations set out below:

Provocation 1:What are the main ways that digital exclusion impacts the people you support?

Provocation 2:What has been the biggest change you’ve seen since the beginning of lockdown for the people you support?

Provocation 3: How can we ensure that the people who aren’t online, and don’t want to be, aren’t excluded?

Provocation 4:What support is needed to help people to get online/ back online?

Provocation 5: How can we ensure that the pace of delivery and flexibility that was proven possible during the pandemic is maintained? Is this realistic, or are there other ways to maintain the support?

Provocation 6: Virtually overnight, the entire world moved online. What does this mean for the third sector and those we support as we move into the future?

Listen to this interview for Self Management Week, with our Development Officer Carmen and Sara from Branching out Argyll.

This podcast was recorded for the ALLIANCE Annual Conference. 

We would like to invite listeners to join us on a ‘virtual walk’. We recommend you download this podcast and listen to it while going for a walk of your choice around your area.

Our guest speaker, Will Manners, is an outdoors specialist. In this recording, he is guiding us a walk that is familiar to him, with prompts to help us notice the seasonal changes taking place all around us. Whether you’re in a rural or urban environment, join us for this mindful way to start the day.

Tweet us your thoughts or pictures from your walk at @ALLIANCEscot #ALLIANCEConf20.

Find out more about Will at https://freewilloutdoors.co.uk.

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Start the final day of the ALLIANCE Annual Conference by joining us on a ‘virtual walk’. We recommend you download this podcast and listen to it while going for a walk of your choice around your area. 

Our guest speaker, Will Manners, is an outdoors specialist. In this recording, he is guiding us a walk that is familiar to him, with prompts to help us notice the seasonal changes taking place all around us. Whether you’re in a rural or urban environment, join us for this mindful way to start the day.

Tweet us your thoughts or pictures from your walk at @ALLIANCEscot #ALLIANCEConf20.

Find out more about Will at https://freewilloutdoors.co.uk. 

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On the 14th of August, ALLIANCE Director of Integrated Services Andrew Strong interviewed Jonathan Cameron, Head of Digital Health and Care at the Scottish Government.

The conversation focused on recent developments in digital health and care, including a refresh of Scotland's Digital Health and Care Strategy, inclusion work linked to the Connecting Scotland programme and progress on the COVID-19 proximity tracing app.

The ALLIANCE Live podcast welcomes Dr Carey Lunan as its guest in this episode. Carey is a Deep End GP and the Chair of the Royal College of General Practitioner's in Scotland. In conversation with Margaret Mckeith, House of Care Lead at the ALLIANCE,  Carey shares with listeners the general mood amongst GPs of the impact COVID-19 has had on them, their practice teams and the individuals in their community who they support and care for.

Carey also explains the many ways her colleagues and their staff teams have adapted and evolved over the lockdown period as well as looking to the future and what it might holds for General Practitioners in Scotland.

This week Good Vibrations have shared some music played by their Self Management group in Glasgow using a gamelam orchestra, a type of musical instrument from Indonesia. Following the music a participant of the group shares an easy relaxation trick that she uses to stay calm in any situation.

In a  short series mini series of recordings we speak to three Allied Health Professionals (AHPs) from NHS Ayrshire and Arran about how they have adapted their services during COVID-19 to continue to care for and support the individuals they work with.

For the first recording of this series we speak to Christina Starrs, a Advanced Practice Physiotherapist working within primary care Musculoskeletal services. Christina describes the ways in which digital technology has helped the transition to working more remotely and pays tribute the the behind the scenes support that is available within the primary care team. 

In a  short series mini series of recordings we speak to three Allied Health Professionals (AHPs) from NHS Ayrshire and Arran about how they have adapted their services during COVID-19 to continue to care for and support the individuals they work with.

In this recording of our miniseries we speak with Gemma Murray, an Occupational Therapist working in localities of North Ayrshire. Gemma describes how her role has changed from delivering rehab programs to people transitioning out of hospital stays to providing safeguarding care to individuals ensuring their safety and wellbeing whilst under lockdown.