Welcome to our podcast 'Hope in the Deep End', brought to you by the Shared Health Foundation.

In this podcast series we are exploring all the different complexities of working in areas of deprivation, poverty and entrenched health inequalities. From clinicians to youth workers, we want to inspire, challenge and give inspiration to all those that work in the deep end.

This episode was recorded as part of Shared Health’s annual Doctors in Deprivation Training Day - a day of learning, inspiration and encouragement for GPs and clinical leads working in the Deep End of medicine. If you’re interested in attending our next training day, visit our website.

Prof Margaret Ikpoh is Vice Chair of Professional Development at RCGP, a GP Partner at Holderness Health, a lead researcher, and the current National NIHR Settings Lead for Primary Care and a Trustee for the Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management. She is the former Associate Director for Primary Care for Hull York Medical School and is a GP Trainer.

She is the former co-Chair for the regional Primary Care Workforce Group with NHS England & Improvement for the North-East and Yorkshire Regional People Board and is still an active member.

Margaret was voted Fellow of the Year at the RCGP Inspire Awards (2021) and one of HSJ’s top 50 most influential Black, Asian and minority ethnic figures in health (2022).

In 2024, she was awarded the Caribbean and African Health Network Special Recognition Award for Leadership in Primary Care. She was appointed as a Trustee for the Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management.

In 2025, Margaret was appointed as Patron of the Caribbean & African Black Healthcare Awards and Patron of the National BAME Health and Care Awards, reflecting her profound commitment to serving communities that have long been marginalised or overlooked. She was also appointed Deputy Lieutenant of the East Riding of Yorkshire.

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Welcome to our podcast 'Hope in the Deep End', brought to you by the Shared Health Foundation.

In this podcast series we are exploring all the different complexities of working in areas of deprivation, poverty and entrenched health inequalities. From clinicians to youth workers, we want to inspire, challenge and give inspiration to all those that work in the deep end.

This weeks episode we discuss the heartbreaking statistic that 30% of all children in the UK live in poverty.

As we get closer to the general election Dr Laura Neilson from Shared Health and Alison Garnham, Chief Executive from Child Poverty Action Group discuss what the future government should do to reduce the impact of poverty on children in the UK.

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Welcome to our podcast 'Hope in the Deep End', brought to you by the Shared Health Foundation.

In this podcast series we are exploring all the different complexities of working in areas of deprivation, poverty and entrenched health inequalities. From clinicians to youth workers, we want to inspire, challenge and give inspiration to all those that work in the deep end.

This week's episode focuses on the importance of compassion in healthcare. Dr Laura Neilson speaks to  Dr Jen Davies, clinical psychologist at Shared Health Foundation, about how we can improve the way we care for our patients and for ourselves.

The Together Service, part of Shared Health Foundation, is embedded in primary care and is accessible to all patients of the practice. The service works with all parents and expecting parents to create healthier bonds with their baby, and also with those who have experienced baby loss and trauma.

Resources:
The Threat Drive Soothe Systems - The Psych Collective
How 40 Seconds of Compassion Could Save a Life - Stephen Trzeciak - TEDxPenn

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Welcome to our podcast 'Hope in the Deep End', brought to you by the Shared Health Foundation.

In this podcast series we are exploring all the different complexities of working in areas of deprivation, poverty and entrenched health inequalities. From clinicians to youth workers, we want to inspire, challenge and give inspiration to all those that work in the deep end.

In this week's episode we're speaking to a wonderful patient who has been working with Ruth Chorley from Focused Care. Focused Care works to make the invisible patient, based in Primary Care but working holistically to help patients thrive.

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Welcome to our podcast 'Hope in the Deep End', brought to you by the Shared Health Foundation.

In this podcast series we are exploring all the different complexities of working in areas of deprivation, poverty and entrenched health inequalities. From clinicians to youth workers, we want to inspire, challenge and give inspiration to all those that work in the deep end.

In this week's episode we're speaking to Dr Jen Davies, clinical psychologist at Shared Health Foundation. The Together Service is embedded in primary care and is accessible to all patients of the practice. The service works with all parents and expecting parents to create healthier bonds with their baby, and also with those who have experienced baby loss and trauma.

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Welcome to our podcast 'Hope in the Deep End', brought to you by the Shared Health Foundation.

In this podcast series we are exploring all the different complexities of working in areas of deprivation, poverty and entrenched health inequalities. From clinicians to youth workers, we want to inspire, challenge and give inspiration to all those that work in the deep end.

In this week's episode, we're speaking to some wonderful patients who have been working with Ruth Chorley from Focused Care. Focused Care works to make the invisible patient visible, based in Primary Care but working holistically to help patients thrive.

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Hope in the Deep End Podcast - Let's chat about teeth!

Welcome to our podcast 'Hope in the Deep End', brought to you by the Shared Health Foundation.

In this podcast series we are exploring all the different complexities of working in areas of deprivation, poverty and entrenched health inequalities. From clinicians to youth workers, we want to inspire, challenge and give inspiration to all those that work in the deep end.

This weeks episode focuses on oral hygiene and teeth! Our guests are Dr Ben Atkins, former President of the Oral Health Foundation and ran his own Homeless Dental Practice and Dr Christina Worle, Clinical Lecturer in Restorative Dentistry and is an expert on Trauma informed Dentistry.

Dr Laura Neilson speaks with Ben and Christina about poverty, access to dentistry for deprived areas and if wooden toothbrushes are all they are cracked up to be!

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Hope in the Deep End Podcast - Let's Talk about Toilets!

Welcome to our podcast 'Hope in the Deep End', brought to you by the Shared Health Foundation.

In this podcast series we are exploring all the different complexities of working in areas of deprivation, poverty and entrenched health inequalities. From clinicians to youth workers, we want to inspire, challenge and give inspiration to all those that work in the deep end.

Let's Talk about Toilets!

Professor Monica Lakhanpaul is a Consultant Paediatrician and Professor of Integrated Community Child Health at University College London and is passionate about toilets! 

Talking about the loo is not a common conversation in the UK. We often refer to poor hygiene in toilets and lack of clean water in 3rd world countries. Clinicians often are taught to treat constipation and UTIs with prescribed medicine but there is actually so much more behind the emotional and mental health of a child that affects their bowel movements. Asking the question where the toilet is situated, does it have light, who else has access to the toilet, how clean is it, can you afford to keep it clean and how does it make you feel when you use it can open up a whole conversation that you never expected to have!

If you want to appear on 'Hope in the Deep End' then get in touch [email protected]

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Welcome to our podcast 'Hope in the Deep End', brought to you by the Shared Health Foundation.

In this podcast series we are exploring all the different complexities of working in areas of deprivation, poverty and entrenched health inequalities. From clinicians to youth workers, we want to inspire, challenge and give inspiration to all those that work in the deep end.

The Lullaby Trust is a charity that provides advice for safer sleeping for babies and support for parents and professionals going through a Sudden Infant Death.

Our recent report from The All-Party Parliamentary Group for Temporary Accommodation shows that 34 homeless children died because of their vulnerability and homelessness. How did that happen? What can we do to stop it happening again? What are the risks of co-sleeping?

Dr Laura Neilson and Jenny Ward, CEO of The Lullaby Trust talk all things babies, cots and poverty.

Our resource produced in partnership with The Lullaby Trust can be found here.

If you want to appear on 'Hope in the Deep End' then get in touch [email protected]

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Welcome to our podcast 'Hope in the Deep End', brought to you by the Shared Health Foundation.

In this podcast series we are exploring all the different complexities of working in areas of deprivation, poverty and entrenched health inequalities. From clinicians to youth workers, we want to inspire, challenge and give inspiration to all those that work in the deep end.

In this episode we meet Alex Bax, CEO of Pathway. 

Pathway is the UK’s leading homeless healthcare charity; and has helped 11 hospitals in England to create teams who take care of over 3500 homeless patients every year. Pathway also carries out research and provides training through the Faculty for Homeless and Inclusion Health, a network of more than 1700 people who are passionate about healthcare for excluded groups. People who have been homeless are included in every area of our work.

Laura and Alex discuss the welfare state, the impact of shame and what hope we can bring to the most entrenched situations.

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