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Joining us in this episode is Paul Miller, Managing Partner and Chief Executive Officer at Bethnal Green Ventures (BGV). BGV started in 2012, with social innovation camps aiming to bring together people at the sharp end of social and environmental challenges with some of the best tech talent in the UK.

The founders drew on learning from the success of accelerator programmes in the US and started with the idea of Europe's first 'tech for good' accelerator programme.

The group have since 2012 raised over £50M from investors which they continue to put into a rolling programme, offering £60,000 investment to handpicked projects who receive 6 weeks mentoring and wider support.

Hear about how the programme has grown, what has motivated companies to invest, whether well-intentioned tech can mitigate the sometimes harmful impacts of other technologies and how interested listeners can apply.

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Join us for our latest episode this time with Marianne Mannello, Assistant Director at Play Wales, a charity championing/promoting/advocating for children’s needs and rights to play. We talk about how outdoor play has changed in Wales and other countries over time, the different factors that can affect children's ability to play freely outdoors and how organisations can work together to help secure children’s right to a quality, safe and free space for the betterment of their creativity and development.

Resources

English

https://play.wales

https://playfulchildhoods.wales

Welsh

https://chwarae.cymru

https://plentyndodchwareus.cymru

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In this episode we speak with Dr Anne Marie Cunningham, GP, former Associate Medical Director at Digital Health and Care Wales and now GP Advisor at the Department of Health in Northern Ireland. 

Anne Marie talks to us about the NHS Hack Day coming up 1st-2nd March in Cardiff, how such events can build greater common understanding between NHS staff and the tech industry, while meanwhile generating support for new ideas for how #TechForGood can create new opportunities in innovation across the public sector in general.

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Join us for our latest episode this time with Dr Karen Sankey (#TheHolisticMedic), GP and therapeutic coach. Dr Sankey set up Community Wellness CIC, a social enterprise designed to enable people marginalised by mainstream service approaches to find new approaches to wellbeing that respect acceptance, compassion, creativity and shared knowledge.

Dr Sankey shares her insights into the challenges facing those creating new approaches outside of the status quo, and how her work has aided practitioners, service users and community networks around them to better understand trauma, adversity and resilience.

#CommunityWellnessCIC is currently calling for support for a financial appeal - which you can see more about at https://community-wellness.co.uk/urgent-appeal. 

If you might be interested in workshops, coaching, mentoring or other support from Dr Sankey, further info is at https://theholisticmedic.com.

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This episode introduces Dr Tim Hall, former academic lecturer, now Academic in Residence for Citizens UK, a network of groups and institutions apply a Community Organising approach to bring communities together to inspire and create change. The organisation has a long history of campaigning, but aims to do so through respectfully by strengthening relationships between those in positions of power and community members.

Tim talks to us about some of the subtle but important differences between community engagement and community organising, and how this has been started to be applied in the health sector across the UK.

If you'd like to know more about Citizens UK you can visit their website at https://www.citizensuk.org including finding out if there is a chapter near you.

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This episode we welcomed Susannah Fox, author of Rebel Health and former Chief Technology Officer for the United States Department of Health and Human Services. Susannah walks us through why she chose to write a book about the need for more community- and patient-orientated healthcare innovation, but how such an approach could transform both the outcomes of how care is delivered but also the approaches we might take instead to addressing health problems.

If you would like to find out more about Susannah and her recently published book, visit https://susannahfox.com/rebel-health, visit her LinkedIn, Youtube or X profile.

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For our 10th episode we welcome Lizzie O'Brien, Makeda Kingue and Mohammed Quhill, current and former students of Cardiff Medical School all involved with Cardiff Refugee Health Project. The group talk about their work with Doctors of the World UK promoting the Safe Surgeries toolkit, designed to support primary care services in meeting NHS guidance on registration and access policies, particularly for certain population groups that are at risk of discrimination and unfair treatment.

If you would like to find out more about the Cardiff Refugee Health Project, visit their LinkedIn or X pages.

Information about the Safe Surgeries toolkit is available at https://www.doctorsoftheworld.org.uk/safesurgeries/safe-surgeries-toolkit. 

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In our 9th episode we talk to Dr Connie Junghans, GP in Westminster, London, Senior Clinical Fellow at Imperial College London and Clinical Lead for the Community Health and Wellbeing Workers (CHWWs - hence the bad Star Wars joke...) programme in West London. Connie talks to us about how they've implemented this model of proactive and comprehensive programme in Westminster involving teams of workers visiting around 120 households several times a year to address unmet health and social needs.

The programme has the support of the National Association for Primary Care, NHS England's Professor Bola Owolabi and seems to be expanding into new areas each year across the UK - and with only £300 million estimated to fund the workers in the areas in greatest need across the UK, begs question if this should be a new feature in primary care planning.

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Join us for our 8th episode as we speak with Dr Selva Selvarajah, a GP Partner at St Andrews Health Centre at the infamous Bromley-by-Bow Health Centre in Tower Hamlets, east London. Selva narrates a brief history of how Bromley-by-Bow grew from its roots as a community-led social action organisation into one delivering primary healthcare, but with a radically different approach. 

Selva talks to us about recent developments at Bromley-by-Bow including how the NHS is commissioning their organisation to deliver more preventative, 'population health' activity in the community and how action on the social determinants (money, housing, work and more) is becoming a routine part of the care they provide to people with long-term conditions. 

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In this episode we speak with Pippa Britton OBE, Vice Chair of the Board of Aneurin Bevan University Health Board, Vice Chair of Sport Wales and double Paralympian for Great Britain. Pippa speaks about what integration of services could mean at a neighbourhood level and what effects this might have on experiences of care for service users, as well as the potential benefits of community involvement and a more holistic focus beyond people's medical needs in a consultation.

Pippa has considerable experience working with and influencing boards of various sporting organisations in the UK and is also a certified coach and mentor. She has a particular interest in diversity and inclusion and good governance which we touch on during the podcast of how we can consider such perspectives when we plan new centres and services.

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