The #ThinkBigActNow Podcast: Recent Episodes

ThinkBigActNow

A series of thought provoking discussions with passionate, big thinkers in health. We talk about the big issues facing our health system and what practical, quick to adopt solutions exist to tackle them. Featuring NHSX Director of Innovation, Lisa Hollins.

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HCI’s founder and chairman, Richard Wyatt-Haines spoke with patient representative Jono Broad about personalised care, sharing risk and patients as partners. 

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Tara Donnelly, Director of Digital Care Models talks to HCI's founder Richard Wyatt-Haines about the future of virtual wards and how digital tools are empowering people to stay at home and out of hospital.

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Mike Sanders talks to Richard from HCI about the way healthcare is catching up to the new digital age, how technology can be vital to the flow of a patient’s health plan, and the importance of patient held records.

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Richard Wyatt-Haines speaks with Sophie Randall about the Patient Information Forum, YouTube’s Health Shelf, and how knowledge really is power. 

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Jon Wilks shines a light on social care and helps us to see where the challenges lie as well as articulating practical solutions to solve them, including adopting a positive deviance style approach and the importance of leadership.

ThinkBigActNow is a series of thought provoking discussions that focus on practical solutions to help tackle the big challenges faced across our health system. Delivered in partnership with HCI (Health and Care Innovations Limited) and Centric Health Media in 2021.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRrNQgwyHK8

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Care City is an innovation centre for health ageing and regeneration, within East London’s health and care system. John discusses how his projects help to deliver new capabilities to aid transformation such as using digital tools to enhance less skilled or less senior staff. He uses an AF project as an example of how his team had originally set out to use pharmacists to train the community but the result was counter assistants being at the forefront and therefore more valuable.

ThinkBigActNow is a series of thought provoking discussions that focus on practical solutions to help tackle the big challenges faced across our health system. Delivered in partnership with HCI (Health and Care Innovations Limited) and Centric Health Media in 2021.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwvqbfUcAjw

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VitalHub develops and supports mission-critical healthcare solutions including Patient Flow, Mobile and Web Assessment, Client Management, and EHR technologies. The UK Group is an amalgamation of 4 UK health tech organisations including InTouch with Health and Transforming Systems. Lisa and Pete discuss partnerships, collaboration and looking beyond "that's how we've always done it" as well as improving efficiency and what's getting in the way.

ThinkBigActNow is a series of thought provoking discussions that focus on practical solutions to help tackle the big challenges faced across our health system. Delivered in partnership with HCI (Health and Care Innovations Limited) and Centric Health Media in 2021.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zPKSeeij6g

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Jonathan (Jono) Broad is a well known patient leader in the southwest. Jono has recently moved to NHS England as a Senior manager for Personalised Care and is working on patient experience, safety and quality. Jono firmly believes that the only way to get the best outcomes for patients is to place them at the centre of both their own patient journey and service design.  

ThinkBigActNow is a series of thought provoking discussions that focus on practical solutions to help tackle the big challenges faced across our health system. Delivered in partnership with HCI (Health and Care Innovations Limited) and Centric Health Media in 2021.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpqcGQ5ycxE&t=10s

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Through Medway Innovation Institute Jenny has built an environment that encourages and nurtures innovation by giving support to health care professionals who want to drive change, voice and test their ideas.

ThinkBigActNow is a series of thought provoking discussions that focus on practical solutions to help tackle the big challenges faced across our health system. Delivered in partnership with HCI (Health and Care Innovations Limited) and Centric Health Media in 2021.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62ZN09uBW5w 

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Adel discusses how her Trust has adopted a multiple conditions app as part of their transformation strategy to reduce unnecessary outpatient appointments.

ThinkBigActNow is a series of thought provoking discussions that focus on practical solutions to help tackle the big challenges faced across our health system. Delivered in partnership with HCI (Health and Care Innovations Limited) and Centric Health Media in 2021.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPYaUs-C0qI&t=7s 

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Steven brings his vast experience of working within the health and technology sector across Europe to talk about how three way partnerships formed between pharmaceuticals, tech providers and health trusts to deploy new digital projects can be highly effective and low risk.

ThinkBigActNow is a series of thought provoking discussions that focus on practical solutions to help tackle the big challenges faced across our health system. Delivered in partnership with HCI (Health and Care Innovations Limited) and Centric Health Media in 2021.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbzwTOtmubc&t=1s

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Tom and Andrew discuss how they use agile working to launch, learn and adapt as you go using the NHS Test and Trace app as an example of how they had to deliver a major and urgent project in a short timeframe.

ThinkBigActNow is a series of thought-provoking discussions that focus on practical solutions to help tackle the big challenges faced across our health system. Delivered in partnership with HCI (Health and Care Innovations Limited) and Centric Health Media in 2021.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j09OM0WP2no&t=1s

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In her role as Deputy Director of Service Delivery at Dorset Clinical Commissioning Group, Sally has made huge strides into introducing new ways of working. This includes using lessons learnt from the delivery of the large scale COVID vaccinations programme and how it can play a role in reducing waiting lists.

ThinkBigActNow is a series of thought provoking discussions that focus on practical solutions to help tackle the big challenges faced across our health system. Delivered in partnership with HCI (Health and Care Innovations Limited) and Centric Health Media in 2021.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkkYGC937PE&t=11s

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Lisa helped Richard Wyatt-Haines and Douglas Hamandishe kick off #ThinkBigActNow with her insight into what she has seen in her role of bringing new innovations to the forefront over the last year that have made a real difference.

ThinkBigActNow is a series of thought provoking discussions that focus on practical solutions to help tackle the big challenges faced across our health system. Delivered in partnership with HCI (Health and Care Innovations Limited) and Centric Health Media in 2021.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSxqIANk8nc&t=14s