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Philippa works for the Addison’s Disease Self-Help Group (ADSHG) as their Communications and Research Manager. Through education and awareness, she aims to drive change to safer and equitable care for those living with steroid dependency, as well as raising awareness of the challenges faced by all rare diseases. Philippa has lived experience of the condition and was diagnosed with Addison’s disease 19 years ago.

Dr Daniel Thomas emphasises the dangers of multiple medications on patient health and the environment. Highlighting that unnecessary prescriptions contribute to adverse drug reactions and healthcare emissions. Advocating for reducing prescriptions and involving patients in decisions to improve both health outcomes and sustainability.

In this video, chair Dr Ruw Abeyratne is joined by Dr Aicha Bouraoui and Dr Katie Malbon to explore health inequalities and raise awareness of health inequalities in the NHS. They discuss the prevalence and effect of inequality among their patients, the lack of confidence physicians have in discussing health inequality during routine care, prevention, and how clinicians can intervene when they become aware of socioeconomic factors hindering their health outcomes. They focus on the importance of seeing a patient as a whole, not just treating the condition they present with.

Dr Katie Malbon, consultant paediatrician interviews Sara Sabra, a rheumatology patient. They discuss Sara’s experience of her condition, her experience with the NHS, the importance of education and knowledge regarding healthy lifestyles as a preventative measure. Sara highlights the importance of being treated holistically in a medical setting and encourages fellow patients to be inquisitive and ask questions of their clinicians.

In this video, Dr Debbie Wake, Dr Katie Malbon and Dr Nivedita Aswani discuss their work with helping patients with self-management of diabetes with the use apps and the digital platforms in health.

In this video, consultant rheumatologist Dr Aicha Bouraoui is joined by dietitian, Salma Mehar to discuss the importance of coproduction, multidisciplinary team working and patient involvement in the management of diabetes in children and young people.

Dr. Wakana Teranaka is a medical professional who served as a chief registrar at Homerton Hospital in 2023-2024. In this role, she was involved in leading the implementation of the "Call for Concern" project, inspired by Martha's Rule.

The video discusses the Cheshire and Merseyside Cancer Alliance’s initiative to create a patient representative readers panel. The panel ensures that written information is accessible and understandable for the diverse population they serve.

Join Dr Suzy Lishman CBE, a histopathologist and medical examiner who has been working on death certification reform for over a decade, to learn about the recent death certificate reforms. Including the role of the medical examiner, changes to the medical certificate of cause of death, cremation forms and the role of the registrar and coroner. 

The medical communication chart project began during a ward round in 2020 amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. As a result of the increasing number of patients being admitted who did not speak English the team set out to design an aid to address this gap in communication on daily medical ward rounds which was easy to use, patient friendly and quality assured.

Patient safety should be at the heart of all that we do as clinicians and yet the ‘noise’ in the system makes it harder rather than easier, and we remain a long way from having a patient safety culture embedded within the NHS.

This webinar focusses on highlighting patient safety initiatives across the country that promote learning from and/or encourage compassionate engagement with patient safety incidents.

We have grown used to a “one item” GP appointment, and yet health is often not that conveniently pigeon-holed with many older adults in particular living with multiple conditions.

Information prescriptions are personalised pieces of information provided by Diabetes UK to give people goals to help prevent diabetes health complications.

Research we carried out showed that 89% of people living with or at risk of diabetes had experience stigma at some point in their lives.

In many instances, celebrities, activists, and politicians convey false information evoking harm to individuals and society.

I was surprised that I was very much left to my own devices, ongoing monitoring has been minimal and happened only through my own intervention.

Distinguishing valid information from misinformation can be difficult, especially on social media platforms, where the two often circulate side-by-side.

An introduction to the HSSIB team, the organisation’s role and some insights into their work.

Patient safety is vitally important as services expand to meet demand, in line with the direction of the NHS long term plan.

There is much to be said about the importance of kindness and compassion in improving patient safety.

A webinar series aimed at doctors, doctors in training and doctors in training and other members of the multi-disciplinary team.

Our expert panel explore learning disability (LD) and sepsis, highlighting common themes from patient safety incidents nationally.

Our third webinar with the post-graduate medical education team at Chelsea and Westminster NHS Foundation Trust.

Our expert panel explore what PSIRF is and how investigations have changed.