The Next GenCast

Over the summer period we are re-releasing some some of our most popular conversations....

This conversation is with Karyn McCluskey, chief executive of Community Justice Scotland. I heard Karyn on a podcast a few years ago, and never forgot her story.

Karyn trained as a nurse in the NHS, but has worked in the police for the last 22 years. She was Director of the Scottish Violence Reduction Unit for the last decade, which proposed a different way of addressing violence in Scotland. They developed injury surveillance, gang intervention and gang exit, and focused on preventing knife carrying and injury. She helps support the Medics Against Violence charity in Scotland, set up in conjunction with the Violence Reduction Unit.

So how did Karyn get such startling results in a city once known as the murder capital of western Europe?

Listen to Karyn's story, the lessons she's learnt, and the advice she'd give to any leader with a drive to tackle 'wicked' problems- prepare to have your mind blown!

*Highlights:

• Her vision and story (2 mins)
• Advice on making change (13 mins)
• Coping with failure (22 mins)
• Working within political timescales (25 mins)
• Changing things without evidence (28 mins)
• Imposter syndrome (32 mins)
• Resilience and decompressing (39 mins)
• Mum guilt (40 mins)
• Final 3 questions- recommended resources, a leader she admires, and top 3 bits of advice (42 mins)

*Resources:

• A recent Telegraph article profiling Karyn
• Her Ted Talk: 'Proceed til Apprehended'
• The podcast where I first heard Karyn: Reasons to be Cheerful (Episode 50)
• More about Karyn's work

*Social media:

• @KarynMcCluskey
• @NextGGP

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We're taking a break over the summer, and re-releasing some of our most popular episodes. This one is with Sarah-Jane Marsh, CEO of Birmingham Women's and Children's Hospital.

Sarah-Jane joined the NHS via the Graduate Management Scheme. Appointed Chief Operating Officer at Birmingham Children’s Hospital in December 2007, and Chief Executive just over a year later, whilst still only 32, the Trust has been under her leadership for 12 years and was named ‘Provider Trust of the Year’ by the Health Service Journal in 2015.

In 2015, Sarah-Jane took on the additional role of Chief Executive of Birmingham Women’s, before going on to integrate the two Trusts to create the first Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust in Europe in little more than 18 months. In 2016, Sarah-Jane was asked to head-up the NHS England Maternity Transformation Programme.

More recently, she was asked by the Government to lead the testing aspect of their Covid-19 'Test and Trace' programme.

In this episode, Sarah-Jane talks candidly about her recent experience working for the Government, reflects on how she coped when her resilience hit rock bottom, and shares some of the lessons she's learnt on her leadership journey so far...

*Highlights:

• What it was like being asked to lead for 'Test and Trace' (3 mins)
• Managing life at home alongside that responsibility (6.5 mins)
• Lessons learnt from that role (11.5 mins)
• How her resilience hit rock bottom (13 mins)
• Her journey to CEO (19 mins)
• Managing imposter syndrome (23 mins)
• Her proudest moments (27 mins)
• What she'd like to achieve over the next 10 years (30 mins)
• How she balances being a mum (34 mins)
• How she copes with abuse on Twitter (40 mins)
• Her final recommended resources, role model, and top tips fo new leaders (42 mins)

*Resources:

• Jess Phillips' first book
• Our podcast episode with Sir Bruce Keogh, Sarah-Jane's Chairman at Birmingham Women's and Children's Hospital

*Social media:

• @BWCHBoss
• @NextGGP

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This is Episode 29, with Dr Bola Owolabi, Director of Health Inequalities at NHS England and NHS Improvement,

COVID-19 has shone a harsh light on some of the inequalities that persist in our society, and Bola has been leading the NHS effort to accelerate progress in tackling this over the last few years in her national role.

Bola also works as a GP in the Midlands, and has held various leadership roles at local, system and national levels in her career.

Having heard her speak at a few meetings and conferences now, I’ve always come away with an impression of someone who is quietly confident, hugely committed to her purpose of reducing health inequalities, and clearly mindful of bringing other people with her along that journey.

*Highlights:

• Her early years and influences (3 mins)
• Bola's 'why' (7 mins)
• Managing her imposter syndrome (14 mins)
• Do leadership qualifications matter? (18 mins)
• The value of mentoring, and how to find a mentor (22 mins)
• Being a BAME leader (30 mins)
• What her role means, and the vision of her team (34 mins)
• Staying hopeful about tackling inequalities (40 mins)
• What can we all do to help tackle inequalities? (46 mins)

*Resources

• Learn more about Core 20 plus 5
• RCGP modules on health inequalities
• A blog by Bola on health inequalities in the BMJ, and more blogs she has written for NHSE
• Book recommendation: Lean In, by Sheryl Sandberg
• Learn more about 'Core 20 plus 5' in this episode she recorded for "Finding fairhealth" with Rachel Steen

*Social media:

• Twitter: @bolaowolabi8
• @NextGGP/ @nishmanek

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Leadership starts with leading yourself, and there is no better person to help us understand ourselves than this week's guest- Hannah Miller. Hannah is one of our most popular speakers at Next Generation GP, and you'll see why!

She's an amazing coach, supporting emerging leaders from all sorts of backgrounds using a strengths based approach to development and finding purpose. She's a fantastic speaker, and was chosen to receive the Vistage Rising Star Award for speaking in 2019.

She's introduced a lot of Next Gen GPs to a profling tool called StrengthsFinder, developed by Gallup, which offers personalised insights about what you naturally do best.

So many Next Gen leaders have been amazed by how accurately it describes them, and how it helps them to understand differences in their teams, what they are really good at, and what opportunities they should decline or pursue as a result.

*Highlights:

• Her career (3 mins)
• What is StrengthsFinder? (7.5 mins)
• Why should we focus on strengths rather than weaknesses? (9 mins)
• Working with doctor leaders (18 mins)
• Choosing between opportunities (19.5 mins)
• Coping at rock bottom (24 mins)
• Starting her own company (30 mins)
• Managing her own setbacks and vulnerability (35 mins)
• Where she finds her energy (40 mins)
• Quick fire: including favourite books, heroes, and top tips for new leaders (45 mins)

*Resources

• Hannah's website- Sidekick
• A Next Gen webinar with Hannah
• Book: Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman or a podcast with him
• Book: A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry
• Podcast: The Diary of a CEO with Steven Bartlett

*Social media:

• Twitter: @hannahloumiller
• Instagram
• @NextGGP/ @nishmanek

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This episode is a podcast takeover.... with one of our wonderful Next Gen GPs in Nottingham, Dr Sarah Armitage, taking on the role of host!

Dame Helen Stokes Lampard, as she subsequently became known after the podcast was recorded, will be a familiar name and voice to many of you. Whether you’ve heard her in the media, giving speeches in her role as former Chair of the RCGP, or you might have heard her speak at a Next Gen event for us, given that she’s kindly accepted so many of our invitations over the years. 

She is currently Chair of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges (AoMRC), Chair of the National Academy of Social Prescribing, and a GP partner practising in Lichfield in Staffordshire.

Many of you will know her as the former Chair of the RCGP from 2016-2019, during which time she was never far from our radios and TV screens, trying to ensure the ‘voice’ of general practice and GPs was understood and fairly represented. She has been described as one of the most inspiring and influential GPs in the country. 

*Highlights:

• Becoming a doctor (4 mins)
• Journey into general practice (8 mins)
• Current roles (13 mins)
• Managing the imposter syndrome (15 mins)
• Highlights of her time as Chair (17 mins)
• Her leadership style (22 mins)
• Advice on making decisions (23 mins)
• Giving and receiving feedback (30 mins)
• Work life balance (36 mins)
• Quick fire: including favourite books, heroes, and top tips for new leaders (40 mins)

*Resources

• Book: The Art of Speedreading People

*Social media:

• @HelenStokesLam
• @NextGGP/ @nishmanek

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Lord Victor Adebowale has been responsible for some ground-breaking developments in his career as both a campaigner and a leader for the homeless, the unemployed, the disadvantaged and those with learning disabilities. 

He is currently Chair of the NHS Confederation, which represents various NHS providers and commissioners.. Before this, he was Chief Executive of Turning Point for 18 years, one of the UKs' leading social enterprises providing services for people with complex needs.

Victor also served for six years as a Non-Executive Director on the Board of NHS England. He was awarded a CBE for services to the unemployed and homeless people and became a crossbench peer in 2001.

*Highlights:

• Growing up and early influences (5 mins)
• Early failures (10 mins)
• His foray into leadership (12 mins)
• What we need to do about health inequalities (14 mins)
• Learning from the third sector (23 mins)
• Views on integrated care and primary care (26 mins)
• What he learnt from being a NED at NHS England (35 mins)
• Race and diversity in NHS leadership (33 mins)
• Quick fire: including favourite books, life outside of work, and top tips for new leaders (39 mins)

*Resources

• The secret history of the world, by Jnathan Black
• Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World, by Anand Giridharadas
• The Handmaid's Tale

*Social media:

• @Voa1234
• @NextGGP/ @nishmanek

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Welcome to the first episode of 2022, and a very special guest....

For the past 30 years, Donald Berwick has been one of the leading authorities and innovators of quality and improvement both in the U.S. healthcare system and in the NHS. A paediatrician by background, Don was for 19 years the founding CEO of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement. In 2010, he was appointed by President Barack Obama as the Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, a position that he held until December 2011.

He has served on the faculties of the Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health, has written over 160 articles and 6 books, and has provided trailblazing leadership to improve the ways health care providers and institutions care for patients.

*Highlights:

• His leadership story to date (3 mins)
• Being exposed to policy and leadership early on (7 mins)
• The role of mentors in his career (12 mins)
• Balancing clinical work with leadership and academia (16 mins)
• What is was like working for President Obama (19 mins)
• The job of a leader (24 mins)
• Coping with failure (27 mins)
• Handling criticism (33 mins)
• The future of the NHS (36 mins)
• Morale in primary care (41 mins)
• Finding joy in work (45 mins)
• Quick fire: including favourite books, his proudest moments, advice to his younger self, and top tips for new leaders (52 mins)

*Resources

• A promise to learn, a commitment to act (Berwick Review into patient safety, 2013)
• IHI framework for Improving Joy in Work
• Book recommendation: Ministry for the Future

*Social media:

• @donberwick
• @NextGGP/ @nishmanek

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Welcome to the final episode of 2021, and our Christmas Special!

Jake Humphrey is one of the UK’s best known TV presenters, and he is currently the lead Premier League football presenter on BT sport, having previously spent over a decade at the BBC covering Formula One and before that children’s television.

Jake also hosts the High Performance podcast along with psychologist, Professor Damien Hughes. Together, they have conversations with a variety of different people that allow all of us to access the lessons and habits of high performance. They have recently brought all of that wisdom together into one place with the publication of their brand-new book, High Performance: Lessons from the best on becoming your best.

*Highlights:

• Why he set up High Performance (3 mins)
• Learning from the podcast: failure (9 mins)
• His own failures and building resilience (14 mins)
• Learning about leadership (17 mins)
• Changing his mind about success (21 mins)
• What high performance means to him (26 mins)
• Final quick fire (30 mins)

*Resources

• The High Performance book (out 9th December 2021)
• Redemption by John McAvoy
• The Daily Stoic by Ryan Holiday

*Social media:

• @mrjakehumphrey
• Jake on Instagram
• @NextGGP/ @nishmanek

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Jeremy Hunt is currently the Chair of the Health and Social Care Select Committee.

In the aftermath of the 2010 General Election, Hunt was appointed Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, responsible for delivering the 2012 London Olympic Games. He will be best known to many of us for his former role as Secretary of State for Health, a position he held from 2012-2018, making him the longest serving Secretary of State for Health in British history.

*Highlights:

• Early life and influences (4 mins)
• The job of a politican (8 mins)
• Changing the culture of the NHS (11 mins)
• How he felt being made SoS for health (15 mins)
• Those infamous Monday meetings (19 mins)
• The role of the SoS (22 mins)
• The junior doctor's strikes- regrets and reflections (24 mins)
• Handling criticism (33 mins)
• Primary care (36 mins)
• What he thinks we need to prioritise (43 mins)
• Life at home (45 mins)
• Quick fire: including favourite books, and top tips for new leaders (55 mins)

*Resources

• Black Box Thinking
• WIlliam Wilberforce: The Life of the Great Anti-Slave Trade Campaigner 

*Social media:

• @Jeremy_Hunt
• @NextGGP/ @nishmanek

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Dr. Margaret Ikpoh is a GP partner and current RCGP Faculty Chair for Humber and The Ridings. She's also Associate Director of Primary Care for Hull and York Medical School, a Fellow of the Royal College of General Practitioners, one of of the co-champions of Yorkshire and Humber Clinical Research Network, a member of RCGP council, and she's a mum of two- so she’s very busy! 

Margaret is earlier on in her leadership journey than some of our previous guests, and I hope her story of overcoming her imposter syndrome, finding confidence to speak out, and understanding the influence she can have, is a source of inspiration for those considering leadership roles.

*Highlights:

• Early life and influences (3 mins)
• Growing up and facing overt racism (4.5 mins)
• Feeling like she didn't fit in (13 mins)
• What she thinks people can do to help (16 mins)
• Thinking of herself as a leader (20 mins)
• How she got into her roles (25 mins)
• Finding the confidence to lead (28 mins)
• Encouraging each other and sponsorship (30 mins)
• Life at home (34 mins)
• Hopes for the future (38 mins)
• Favourite books,and top tips for new leaders (41 mins)

*Resources

• Book recommendations: The Advantage, Wolfpack, How Women Rise, The Leadership Hike

*Social media:

• @docmagsy
• @NextGGP
• @nishmanek

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