South west AHP 2024 Podcast Series

Tune into the South west Allied Health Professions (AHPs) 2024 Podcast series, featuring 12 episodes. Recorded at Westonbirt Arboretum, the series includes 8 live campfire stories and 4 additional episodes. AHPs from across the South West share stories that connect, inspire, and elevate, showcasing how they implement the AHPs Deliver strategy for England.  

In this podcast Abigail Patrick an ODP working as a Specialist Research Practitioner & Neurology Research Team Leader at University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust shares her alternative and unexpected career journey.  From 1996 as a Project 2000 Nurse taking an agency shift in the operating theatre which inspired a love for theatres, to taking a job as a Nursing Auxiliary which led to starting operating department practitioner (ODP) training. Most ODP’s will concentrate their career within the operating theatre or perioperative environment.  To be different, Abigail chose an alternative path; Anaesthetic ODP to pre-operative assessment and then into research. 10 years in Research and Abigail is now a Specialist Research Practitioner with expertise in Parkinson Disease Assessment. 

A transcript of this episode is available on our website - https://www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/ep8-an-unexpected-journey-of-an-odp-abigail-patrick/

Contact us: england.ahpwte.sw@nhs.net

An unexpected Journey of an Operating Department Practitioner (ODP)

Tune into the South west Allied Health Professions (AHPs) 2024 Podcast series, featuring 12 episodes. Recorded at Westonbirt Arboretum, the series includes 8 live campfire stories and 4 additional episodes. AHPs from across the South West share stories that connect, inspire, and elevate, showcasing how they implement the AHPs Deliver strategy for England.  

You’re invited to listen to a campfire conversation on experienced based, co-designed exploration of psychological wellbeing at work. Kathryn Bamforth the Trust Lead Research AHP and Clinical Research Delivery Team Lead at Torbay & South Devon NHS Foundation Trust and a Physiotherapist by background, shares her research with you and encourages you to be curious about finding out what wellbeing at work means for you. 

A transcript of this episode is available on our website - https://www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/ep5-what-does-wellbeing-mean-to-you-kathryn-bamforth/

Contact us: england.ahpwte.sw@nhs.net

What does wellbeing mean to you?

Tune into the South west Allied Health Professions (AHPs) 2024 Podcast series, featuring 12 episodes. Recorded at Westonbirt Arboretum, the series includes 8 live campfire stories and 4 additional episodes. AHPs from across the South West share stories that connect, inspire, and elevate, showcasing how they implement the AHPs Deliver strategy for England.  

In this episode we hear the story of a specialist pain service curious about the number of patients the team were seeing with autistic traits but often without a diagnosis. This story explores prevalence of autism in chronic pain, how clinicians can support these patients better and capitalise on their unique strengths. 

Jennifer Ford is an Advanced Practice Physiotherapist at Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation and the Bath Centre for Pain Services (BCPS) Therapy Lead, the BCPS is a National Specialist NHS Centre providing pain rehabilitation to people of all ages with complex pain associated disability and associated mental health difficulties. : 

A transcript of this episode is available on our website - https://www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/ep4-a-different-kind-of-normal-jennifer-ford/

Contact us: england.ahpwte.sw@nhs.net

A different kind of normal

Tune into the South west Allied Health Professions (AHPs) 2024 Podcast series, featuring 12 episodes. Recorded at Westonbirt Arboretum, the series includes 8 live campfire stories and 4 additional episodes. AHPs from across the South West share stories that connect, inspire, and elevate, showcasing how they implement the AHPs Deliver strategy for England. 

 

Sometimes, things go wrong.  This is part of everyday life and often we can quickly reflect, adapt, and move on.  But when the adverse event is more significant, how do we acknowledge and understand the harm felt by all those involved so that we can truly learn and feel reconciled with what has happened?  

In this episode Toni Hall, a Diagnostic Radiographer by profession and Associate Director of Patient Care at Somerset NHS Foundation Trust a large, shares the experiences of an operation that went wrong and resulted in catastrophic harm to a patient. 

Following the methodologies of Restorative Practice, Toni explores how individuals and teams can work through their experiences to become reconciled with the impact of harm and uncover a deeper way to identify and share learning to support their healing and promote greater patient safety. 

A transcript of this episode is available on our website - https://www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/ep3-bravery-curiosity-and-the-magic-of-stroytelling-in-research-melissa-reed/

Contact us: england.ahpwte.sw@nhs.net

Bravery, Curiosity and the Magic of Storytelling in Research

Tune into the South west Allied Health Professions (AHPs) 2024 Podcast series, featuring 12 episodes. Recorded at Westonbirt Arboretum, the series includes 8 live campfire stories and 4 additional episodes. AHPs from across the South West share stories that connect, inspire, and elevate, showcasing how they implement the AHPs Deliver strategy for England.  

Listen to the story of one man’s journey from a tragic accident and discharge from hospital through to managing in the community, seeking a different, more accessible home and receiving major adaptations.   

In this episode Neil Withnell a Specialist Housing Occupational Therapist at Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust talks about his role developing services related to Housing and people with disabilities.   

Neil links the experiences of a patient to the work he does to improve the experience of people with disabilities receiving housing and adaptation services.  It’s a challenging tale of delay and frustration but one that ultimately motivates Neil to seek solutions across a range of organisations, pushed on by his patient’s courage, to connect with other stakeholders to inspire positive change. 

A transcript of this episode is available on our website - https://www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/ep2-disabling-barriers-in-the-home-neil-withnell-2/

Contact us: england.ahpwte.sw@nhs.net

Disabling barriers in the home - change should be easy

Tune into the South west Allied Health Professions (AHPs) 2024 Podcast series, featuring 12 episodes. Recorded at Westonbirt Arboretum, the series includes 8 live campfire stories and 4 additional episodes. AHPs from across the South West share stories that connect, inspire, and elevate, showcasing how they implement the AHPs Deliver strategy for England.
 
Sometimes, things go wrong.  This is part of everyday life and often we can quickly reflect, adapt, and move on.  But when the adverse event is more significant, how do we acknowledge and understand the harm felt by all those involved so that we can truly learn and feel reconciled with what has happened? 
 
In this episode Toni Hall, a Diagnostic Radiographer shares the experiences based on a true story, of an operation that went wrong and resulted in catastrophic harm to a patient. Following the methodologies of Restorative Practice, Toni explores how individuals and teams can work through their experiences to become reconciled. 


A transcript of this episode is available on our website - https://www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/ep1-restoration-and-healing-from-harm-toni-hall/

Contact us: england.ahpwte.sw@nhs.net

Restoration and healing from harm

An audio version of the 'Your guide to NHS cervical screening' leaflet.

A full transcript of this episode is available on our website - https://www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/your-guide-to-nhs-cervical-screening/

Please get in touch if you have any questions regarding this episode - england.contactus@nhs.net

Your guide to NHS cervical screening (audio)

Some important information from the NHS to help you stay well this winter. This is a audio version of the We’re Here To Help You Stay Well This Winter campaign leaflet 2025.

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A transcript of this episode is available on our website - https://www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/an-audio-version-of-the-2025-stay-well-this-winter-leaflet/

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An audio version of the 2025 Stay Well This Winter leaflet

Explore how advanced practice pharmacy is reshaping primary care—through prevention-first strategies, tech-enabled workflows, and moving care closer to home. Learn how pharmacists are leading supervision, driving innovation, and building new models that transform patient outcomes. 

A full transcript of this episode is available on our website - https://www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/advanced-practice-weekly-podcast-pharmacy-reshaping-primary-care/

Please get in touch if you have any questions regarding this episode - england.acpenquirieslondon@nhs.net

Advanced Practice Pharmacy - Reshaping primary care

In the latest episode of the Transforming Primary Care podcast, Keith Kendall, pharmacist and Senior Pharmacy Integration lead for NHS England - North East and Yorkshire, is joined by a panel of pharmacists, GPs and an advanced nurse practitioner to discuss the recent expansion of services delivered in community pharmacy.   This includes the continuation of Pharmacy First which enables community pharmacies to complete episodes of care for 7 common conditions, the NHS contraception service which now includes emergency hormonal contraception and other innovative work underway to support the aims of the 10-year plan for health.  

For more information on NHS Pharmacy services visit: https://www.england.nhs.uk/primary-care/pharmacy/pharmacy-services/

A full transcript of this episode is available on our website - https://www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/transforming-primary-care-podcast-s4-e4-how-does-expanding-nhs-community-pharmacy-services-improve-patient-access/

Please get in touch if you have any questions regarding this episode - england.ney.pctransformation@nhs.net

How is expanding Pharmacy services improving patient access?

In the latest episode of the Transforming Primary Care podcast, Dr Sarah Zaidi, GP and NHS England regional lead for frailty in the East of England and a panel of North-East and Yorkshire based GPs, geriatricians and other health and care professionals discuss how to help the most vulnerable people in our communities.  They explore how the identification and successful management of frailty is key to the aims of the 10 Year Plan and the medium-term planning framework, as well as its role within neighbourhood working.  For more information on neighbourhood health visit: https://www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/neighbourhood-health-guidelines-2025-26/

A full transcript of this episode is available on our website - https://www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/transforming-primary-care-podcast-2/

Please get in touch if you have any questions regarding this episode - england.ney.pctransformation@nhs.net

Focusing on frailty - helping the most vulnerable within our communities

This is the first of a series of four podcasts (and associated blogs) about how we can integrate more physical activity across the NHS and what key actions health and care professionals can do to support the strategic shift from ‘Sickness to Prevention’ and from ‘Hospital to Community’. The first podcast kicks off with an introductory episode, by Sarah Price, Director of Public Health for NHS England and Sasha Karikusevic, Director, NHS Horizons, who outline how we can harness the true potential of physical activity across the NHS to help to prevent ill-health and help people to live healthier, longer, and more independent lives, with best-practice examples across England to illustrate the benefits. 

A full transcript of this episode is available on our website - https://www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/four-ways-forward-podcast/

Please get in touch if you have any questions regarding this episode - england.medicalcomms@nhs.net

The Four Ways Forward: Embedding physical activity at the heart of community-centred care and prevention

In this podcast, shared for World Cancer Day, Zoe Merchant, AHP Clinical Lead for the Prehab4Cancer Programme and Jack Murphy, Prehab4Cancer Programme Manager for GM Active consider physical activity as a tool that that support people to prepare for or recover from cancer treatment or surgery.

A full transcript of this episode is available on our website - https://www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/physical-activity-to-prepare-and-recover-from-illness-podcast-transcript/

Please get in touch if you have any questions regarding this episode - england.medicalcomms@nhs.net

Physical activity to support people to prepare for and recover from illness: A conversation

Advice and Guidance (A&G) services provide primary care with continued access to specialist clinical advice, enabling a patient’s care to be managed in the most appropriate setting. In the latest episode of the Transforming Primary Care podcast, Dr Cath Dixon, former GP and Associate Medical Director at Harrogate & District NHS Foundation Trust leads a panel of North-East and Yorkshire based GPs and consultants to discuss how the scheme supports general practice with increasing complexity, helping build relationships between primary and secondary care colleagues – improving the so-called ‘primary secondary care interface,’  

For more information on Advice and Guidance visit: https://www.england.nhs.uk/elective-care/best-practice-solutions/advice-and-guidance/

A full transcript of this episode is available on our website - https://www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/tpc-podcast-s4-e6-how-does-advice-guidance-scheme-support-gp/

Please get in touch if you have any questions regarding this episode - england.ney.pctransformation@nhs.net

How does the advice and guidance scheme support general practice?

In this episode of the Transforming Primary Care podcast, deputy director for dental commissioning across Yorkshire and Humber, Andy Hobson, is joined by a panel of dentists to talk through the changes in the dental contract, with a particular focus on access to urgent dental care. For more information on dental reform visit: https://www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/nhs-dentistry-quality-payment-reforms/ 

A full transcript of this episode is available on our website - https://www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/will-dental-reforms-improve-access-to-dental-services/

Please get in touch if you have any questions regarding this episode - england.ney.pctransformation@nhs.net

Will dental reforms improve access to dental care services?

A conversation with Tara Dillon, CEO of sense for the Chartered Institute for the management Sport and Physical Activity; Hayley Lever, CEO of the Greater Manchester Moving Active Partnership and Hussain Al Zubaidi, RCGP Lifestyle and Physical activity lead

A full transcript of this episode is available on our website - https://www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/movement-matters-why-supporting-physical-activity-in-nhs-staff-is-good-for-everyone-podcast-transcript/

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Movement Matters: Why Supporting Physical Activity in NHS Staff is Good for Everyone

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An unexpected Journey of an Operating Department Practitioner (ODP)

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