Tim Lightfoot talks about how his team at Kesslers are working directly with clinicians to create simple-designed, low-cost devices that can be manufactured quickly to protect NHS workers.

Small manufacturers around the UK have viable solutions to support the NHS. Their voices are not being heard and they are not being utilised. Lightfoot puts a spotlight on why the governments current strategy of using high-end large manufacturers may not be working, and why the media and government need to highlight the amazing high-impact work that is being done by small British designers and manufacturers around the UK.

 Are you a British manufacturer supporting the NHS? We'd love to hear your story. Email me at [email protected]

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Dr Olesya Myakonkaya is a researcher and scientist, come designer. She has worked on Vaccines at GSK but has also completed extensive research on space travel (Mars Nation), the impact of isolation and the human factor in such missions. Olesya and I talk space, isolation and mindfulness.

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Here is an update on the ideas and innovation making a positive impact in the  fight against COVID-19. From home-grown, small scale manufacturers delivering PPE to frontline staff, to a life on Mars. It’s been another busy and interesting week!

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Matt brings together a team from advertising, legal, media, marketing, design and science to debate whether the UK should adopt #masks4all.

In this episode Matt Turrell, Martin Sadofski, Samantha Oakley  Patrick Olszowski, Susie Quddus  talk about the full picture of considering #masks4all from a cultural, human, social and scientific view point. Within the context of the political, the legal, the anthropological everyday.

According to the Masks4All website, "#Masks4All is a grassroots movement to get people to follow the overwhelming scientific evidence that shows we need to wear homemade masks in public to slow COVID-19. 

#Masks4All was originally started in the Czech Republic by Petr Ludwig with a group of researchers and entrepreneurs. The movement was so effective that now close to 100% of the country wears masks and the growth of COVID-19 has slowed significantly."

As we speak, news channels have announced that the US is considering cloth face masks for public and this question is to be assessed by a panel of advisers to the World Health Organization (WHO).

What are your thoughts on #masks4uk? Should the UK public wear face masks in addtion to washing hands and social distancing? 

To join the conversation, email us on [email protected] 

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Professor Patel talks to me about the gaps in PPE. But rather than in supply and access, in the form of the kit itself.

Doctors like Patel have to undertake high viral load procedures, and there is a potential risk involved that is uncovered in this show. One which the design community could address to help save our clinicians from infection.

Listen and act. A call to those such as Innovate UK , KTN, Nesta and RSA, how do we get this message to people who can design and resolve this gap, and fast?

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Dr David Neasham (Amgen) and Dr Shikta Das (UCL) talk about the science and factors underpinning Covid-19. We get a fascinating insight into the process of statistical modelling based off the Ferguson report and how decision making by the UK government has been guided by this science.

Dr Neasham and Dr Das discuss models, projections, social distancing and the wider role that their community have in such infectious diseases. This is a scientific deep dive into the factors that underpin decisions that are influencing all areas of our lives.

[3 Mins]  Epidemiologists, models and a pandemic 

[08 Mins 30]   The Ferguson report and guiding the government's decisions

[13 Mins] The Science: The 'Reproduction Number', 'Incubation Period' and the 'Doubling Time'

[19 Mins]   Simulations and social distancing

[22 Mins]   What if we did nothing? Predicted deaths in numbers

[24 Mins]   Suppression models and the NHS capability to handle the wave

[30 Mins]   Beyond the peak, and rebounding virus factors

[34 Mins]   Where to find the facts and who to trust

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One of the topics to come out of our podcast last week was Personal Protection Equipment (PPE). We have been involved in a company set up from scratch to create 10,000s and more visors, and we are proud to have been a catalyst in this. Next week we will spin back to help other groups, and go deep into the importance of mask design and delivery.

What’s coming next week? We have had lot interest from people wanting to join the COVID-19 Side Effects conversation. On Monday we publish a conversation with epidemiologists, and link with more people working in the design industry and stories from clinicians working on the front line.

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Mathew Knight from Leapers.co talks about how the recent advice from government is having an emotional impact on the self-employed and now those working from home.

What support structures are in place when these people no longer have a team around them.

With over 5 million self-employed in the UK, what measures can be put in place to protect these people from financial hardship as well as their mental health? Will there be a mental health crisis as a side effect to the Coronavirus?

[3 mins]  Working away from the safety of the office

[5 mins] Covid19 and the effect on the self-employed

[10 mins 30] Mental health and the self-employed

[12 mins 30] The network mindset: SMEs are 99% of the supply chain

[19 mins] Positive cartels

[24 mins 30] Looking after yourself: mental and physical wellbeing

We'd love to hear your perspective on the current crisis. To contribute to COVID-19 Side Effects, email [email protected]

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Matt talks to Dr Coyle, from Royal London Hospital, who is working as a consultant managing the covid19 challenge in her critical care setting.

What are the PPE challenges, the Royal London Hospital response and what does that means to Coyle and her team?

We talk, process, wearability, protection and the usability realities of PPE shortages.

This first hand reporting shows the deep practical challenges frontline staff are facing, and the processes required to control the covid19 exposure.

If you would like to join the conversation, email me at [email protected].

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One of the topics to come out of our podcast this week was Personal Protection Equipment (PPE). Testimony from NHS staff over the past couple of days has made it clear that there is a potentially catastrophic shortage of PPE for frontline workers. The response from the maker community has been truly amazing. A design process has been triggered which has, in just a few days, brought together thinking from a wide range of specialist in relation to producing visors as one of the components for PPE. The discussion has helped build micro production units that can start producing and delivering visors to where they are required in the NHS.

What’s coming next week? We have had lot interest from people wanting to join the COVID-19 Side Effects conversation. Joining us next week will be CEOs of charities, epidemiologists, people working in the design industry and stories from clinicians working on the front line

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