Health on the Line

Episode 1 : Rob Webster CBE: I'd love us to recognise that people are our biggest asset. System working, lessons in leadership, COVID-19 and why the health and care workforce is the jewel in the crown.

Episode 2: Ifti Majid: To be more representative means doing things differently. Leadership, organisational culture, effective boards and thinking differently.

Episode 3: Matthew Kershaw: When we talk about a backlog, we're talking about patients, people who are waiting. Recovering the elective backlog, working with local partners and serving diverse communities.

Episode 4: Fiona Adamson: We are well placed to innovate, but we need courage and experience. GP federations, the COVID-19 vaccination programme and pressures on primary care.

Episode 5: Professor Trish Greenhalgh: Before we talk about remote, I would like to talk about staffing. COVID-19 science, virtual care, scientific innovation and staff wellbeing.

Episode 6: Professor Sir Chris Ham: My vision is that ICSs should feel different to any organisation we've had before. System working, NHS reform, staff wellbeing and what lies ahead for health and social care.

Episode 7: Professor Sandeep Ranote: Young people do not want to be known as the generation lost in lockdown. System working and how the pandemic has affected young people.

Episode 8: Dr Kathy McLean: Accountability needs to be to the people we serve. The role of the centre, health inequalities and the changing attitudes towards the LGBTQ+ community.

Episode 9: Dr David Oliver: If we really want to focus on prevention, we've got to put our money where our mouth is. Rethinking approaches to delayed discharges, opportunities for better partnership working and experience of the COVID-19 frontline.

Episode 10: Uday Bose: Medicine is important, but the ecosystem around patients needs to be addressed. Innovation, vaccines, working in partnership with the pharmaceutical sector and focusing on patient experience.

Episode 11: Dame Jackie Daniel: ‘Rinse and repeat’ won’t wash for dealing with the backlog. Geordie Hospital, the NHS planning guidance, tackling the backlog, partnership working and central and local leadership.

Episode 12: Professor Kiran Patel: Apply social value judgements to tackle inequalities. Health inequalities, population health, digital delivery, and the role of the centre.

Episode 13: Charlotte Augst: The NHS can't do it alone, it needs to invest in partnerships. The pandemic, living with COVID-19, health inequalities and linking people with lived experience with health professionals.

Episode 14: Sir Richard Leese: COVID-19 has made us realise all parts of the system are equally important. Provider collaboratives, tough decisions, devolution and lessons learnt from COVID-19.

Episode 15: Susanna Stanford: Patient safety – understanding good intent should be the starting point for conversation. Patient safety, open cultures, lived experience and the importance of patient voice.

Episode 16: Prof Donna Hall: Let's think longer term about how we build resilient communities. Community engagement, building resilient communities and why integrated care systems need to ask themselves tough questions.

Episode 17: Gregor Henderson: Mental health is just part of what it means to be human. Digital innovation, health inequalities and investment in the wider determinants of mental health.

Episode 18: Dr Nikki Kanani: Understand what primary care looks like in your system. The future of primary care, lessons from the pandemic, clinical leadership and population health management.

Episode 19: What should the refreshed NHS Long Term Plan look like? Simon Whitehouse, Louise Ansari, Omotaya Kufeju. With the NHS Long Term Plan set for a refresh later this year, three healthcare leaders share their hopes and fears for the post-pandemic plan.

Episode 20: Cllr Tim Oliver: No organisation within the whole ecosystem can do it on its own. Improving health outcomes, avoiding turf wars and articulating the difference between ICPs and ICBs.

Episode 21: General Sir Gordon Messenger: The workforce deserves the best leadership they can have. Leadership, equality and diversity and why a focus on leadership and workforce is utterly central to better patient outcomes.

Episode 22: Prof Joe Rafferty: Use population health as a driving device for population equality. The power of population health management, a decade of NHS leadership and managing risk this winter and beyond.

Episode 23: Isabel Hardman: The NHS is being failed by not reforming social care. Politics, social care and what lies ahead for the NHS.

Episode 24: Adam Doyle: ICSs aren’t just about holding people to account but helping people to change. Winter planning, partnership working and leading for success.

Episode 25: Prof Suzanne Mason: Corridor medicine could help with ambulance handover delays. Corridor care, demand management, patient handovers and an urgent and emergency care system on the brink.

Episode 26: Supporting healthcare organisations to eliminate racism. Joan Saddler and Lena Samuels on tackling racism and the role of healthcare organisations, systems and leaders.

Episode 27: A vision for mental health, autism and learning disability services. Andy Bell and Marsha McAdam on how to transform mental health, autism and learning disability services over the next decade.

Episode 28: Patricia Hewitt: Influencing the way ICSs work and how the centre works with them. Integrated care system oversight and governance and the critical enablers systems need to succeed. 

Episode 29: Dame Kate Bingham: The regulator moved from being a policeman to an air traffic controller. COVID-19 pandemic, the scientific response and how the effective application of science can be mission critical.

Episode 30: Daniel Elkeles: The biggest barrier we have is thinking in silos. Why primary care is central to urgent and emergency care transformation, industrial action and the impact on long-term recovery.

Episode 31: Miriam González Durántez: We still do not have equal opportunities. Equity, diversity and how to effect change.

Episode 32: The digital transformation gambit: simpler, faster, safer services? Tom Loosemore and Deborah El-Sayed on how integrated care boards can capitalise on the digital revolution.

Episode 33: Patricia Hewitt: There’s a real chance to tackle health differently this time. Integrated care systems can support people to live longer, healthier and happier lives.

Episode 34: Baroness Dambisa Moyo: Health and economic growth – a vital connection. Growth, productivity and the post-pandemic world.

Episode 35: Dr Elliot Street: Reimagining surgical training. The journey from clinician to entrepreneur and turning surgical training on its head.

Episode 36: Dr Neil Modha: We’ve tailored our workforce to the needs of our population. Primary care entrepreneurship, population health and innovations in workforce and estates.

Episode 37: Dr Raghib Ali: We need a cross-society effort to improve health. Preventative healthcare, the role of data, and why a more nuanced approach to health inequalities is needed.

Episode 38: Integrated care systems: one year on. Amanda Sullivan, Kevin Lavery, Patrick Vernon. Three system leaders share their views on integrated care systems a year on from their formal establishment, unpacking what works and where next.

Episode 39: Isabel Hardman: We go too far with the ‘NHS as a religion’ analogy. The history of the NHS, the politics at play and the lessons learned.

Episode 40: Is health beyond the hospital the key to alleviating system pressures? Daniel Elkeles, Karen Jackson, Miriam Deakin, James Sanderson. Local and national leaders explore the role and value of care outside of hospitals and the impact it makes to patients, staff and the wider system.

Episode 41: Dr Geraldine Strathdee: The data dilemma: does data help or hinder patient care in mental health? The key themes, findings and recommendations from her review into data on mental health inpatient settings.

Episode 42: Lord Markham CBE: NHS capital, innovation and economic regeneration. The New Hospitals Programme, digital and innovation, and the NHS's role in economic regeneration.

Episode 43: Prof Sir Chris Ham: We need a culture of commitment to improvement, not compliance. System improvement, good practice and shifting the dial on health outcomes.

Episode 44: Improvement is more than an add on or ‘nice to have’. Sam Allen and Penny Pereira on improvement at system level, the untapped potential and the power of community.

Episode 45: Dr Jane Padmore: The joy and fulfilment of working for people with a learning disability. Learning disabilities, inequalities, autism and neurodiversity.