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In this episode we speak with Dr Matt Harris, Clinical Senior Lecturer in Public Health at Imperial College London, on how working overseas in low- and middle-income countries changed his perspective and practice and how such experiences, including in a partnership arrangement, could share learning, improve services and build solidarity between the UK and other countries.

Matt published a book in 2023 on Decolonizing Healthcare Innovation, setting out how the UK could address many health challenges if it adopted a more humble and proactive approach to learning from work in other contexts. We talk about how partnerships between Wales and the UK could be developed with partners abroad, how this can benefit services back in the UK and some practical steps to bringing this to life.

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In this episode we speak with Professor Jennie Popay, Professor of Sociology and Public Health at Lancaster University on why and how communities of interest or of place can, and should, be involved in the planning and evaluation of health services.

Jennie leads us on a path of understanding the history of public involvement in the NHS, her experiences of influencing this at a national level, and alongside sets out some practical steps for how the collective expertise and wisdom of communities and service users can enrich the services that are delivered by local healthcare organisations.

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In this 4th podcast episode of the series we interview Austin O'Carroll, an inner city GP in Dublin since 1997, founder of Safety Net Ireland, a charity working to improve healthcare access for people who are homeless, and co-founder of the North Dublin City GP Training programme aiming to recruit and train GPs to practice inner-city medicine.

Listen to the episode for how flexible access arrangements, a social model for health and patient empowerment (and more) could help us better tackle health inequalities through local services.

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In our 3rd episode of the series we interview Dave Horton, former Co-Director of ACE (Action in Caerau and Ely - www.aceplace.org) on the story of how a small community-based organisation in the west of Cardiff has grown in size and impact through its application of an Asset-Based Community Development approach, synthesising principles also from Community Organising, to work with local residents to build connections, social capital, pride and belonging in the area and wider impacts on the determinants of health and wellbeing.

Dave is available to mentor, coach and support partner organisations and can be contacted via [email protected].

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This 2nd episode of the Community, Health and Capital series interviews Mark Carter, a former social worker now Assistant Director for Children's Services at Barnardos covering south east Wales. 

Mark describes Baby and Me - a collaboration between local services and the third sector in Newport supporting parents expecting a baby who agencies are concerned are at risk of requiring statutory social services support, describing the benefits of collaboration between agencies, holistic and trauma-informed support, a proactive approach rather than waiting for issues to develop.

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This 1st episode of the Community, Health and Capital series interviews Dr Mark Spencer, a GP in Fleetwood in Lancashire. Mark talks through his career as a GP and how an encounter with a young man suffering from alcohol problems changed the way Mark thought about what value primary care and integrated services could bring to a community.

After repeated and sustained engagement with residents of the area, Healthier Fleetwood, a "social movement" powered by residents to steer what opportunities and services are created in the area, was born. Mark describes how powerful this new approach has been to his own passion for general practice, to recruitment, and of course to community residents themselves. 

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