Watch 2018 – TEDXNHS

TEDxNHS 2018 took place in style at the BFI IMAX on 21 August 2018.

TEDxNHS 2018 Shaping Our Legacy celebrated 70 years of the NHS. Our speakers shared untold stories, infectious ideas and tales of evolution that may shape the future of our NHS.

Aligning with #NHS70, we explored the theme of ‘Shaping our Legacy’ through three topics:

Infectious Ideas: Disruptive innovations that go viral
Untold stories: The everyday extraordinary
Evolution: Imperfections, resilience and learning to adapt

Good Doctor, Bad Patient

Aaron Brown was the first person with Cystic Fibrosis to qualify and join the Royal College of Surgeons. He qualified as a surgeon in 2010, just two years after leaving medical school. He subsequently trained in General Practice and became a GP in 2014. He is now a GP Partner, elected Chair of the local LMC (GP political body), and started his own company to improve ear care in the community. Recently he won a place on the NHS England Clinical Entrepreneur Programme. He is also a proud husband and father of two. @DoctorCF

Sport as a magic pill

A former professional footballer and teacher, Alex is currently Chief Executive of London Playing Field Foundation with whom he has been an employee since 1989. A part-time coach at Tottenham Hotspur Academy, and the author of two books, he has written several courses for The Football Association on coaching, administration and community development. Coping Through Football, one of a number of innovative projects devised by LPFF, helps people with significant mental health issues to get their lives back on track. Delivered in association with North East London Foundation Trust over four London boroughs, it is the most researched football and mental health project.

Live Performance

Amal believes that music speaks a language beyond words, and can connect with a diverse audience on a human level. He aims to use music to help connect people with their own feelings of health, and use it as a tool to improve mental and physical wellbeing. Amal’s debut album “Complex Simplicities” was featured on BBC Introducing in 2012, and he has since composed music for various projects ranging
from theatre productions to short films. He is currently training to be a GP in the West Midlands area.

The billionaire, Bentley and the baby

Since qualifying as an adult nurse, Amy has worked across both adult and neonatal intensive care settings. Since moving into neonatal care, Amy has since become a specialist nurse, looking after sick and premature babies. Now in neonatal intensive care, she has expanded on her role within the field. Amy is currently a Trustee, and NonExecutive Director at Bliss, the sick and premature baby charity. She also contributes to the All Parliamentary Party Group for Baby Loss. In addition to these roles, Amy holds a place on the British Association of Perinatal Medicine Quality Collaborative Board; as well as being an expert reviewer for the National Institute for Health Research. Amy also created 10 Things To Know, a supportive platform for NHS professionals to share ideas to help improve staff wellbeing

Slick Willie

Andi Orlowski is Head of Business Intelligence at an Academic Health Science Network in London. His work ranges from uncovering health inequalities and opportunities to improve NHS services, to helping small and mediumsized enterprises and larger healthcare private companies better understand their market, and how to best access it. He endeavours to create equitable, timely and easily interpretable access to data sets to the broadest group of stakeholders as possible. Andi is also a Senior Population Health Analytics Advisor at NHS England, and is currently studying for his Masters in Health Economics, Policy and
Management at the London School of Economics.

Clinical needs vs. Corporate greed

Charlotte Kemp is a Consultant Clinical Scientist, and Head of the Clinical Measurement Section of the Medical Physics Department at South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. She leads her section in delivering and developing safe and effective specialist services in line with clinical need and the strategic requirements of the Trust. Charlotte has worked as a scientist for more than 15 years, completing a PhD in sleep and brain activity in 2009, becoming a Chartered Engineer in 2015, and was one of the first Chief Scientific Officer’s Fellows in 2016. She is passionate about using her skills as a scientist and engineer to help transform NHS services for the benefit of patients.

Civility saves lives

Chris Turner is consultant in emergency medicine at University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust. He is interested in governance and high-performing teams. These interests led him on a journey from Mid Staffs to founding Civility Saves Lives. This is a campaign that aims to raise awareness of the impact we have on each other in healthcare. He runs Civility Saves Lives with Joe Farmer, Penny Hurst and Jo Dawson, and all have been struck by the enthusiasm with which their message has been embraced across the NHS. They are proud to be part of the Learning From Excellence movement. @orangedis

New ideas for old concerns

Prof. Derek Prinsley (AM) qualified as a doctor in 1942. Months later he was drafted into the RAF as a Medical Officer serving in England and the Middle East, and served for four years. Returning to North Yorkshire in 1947, he continued his career in medicine. His experience and his courage to challenge, reinvent and pioneer would see him establish geriatric medicine as a distinct discipline, which understands the unique needs of older people. In doing so, he ‘incidentally’ set up a dedicated unit for younger, chronically disabled people, became a World Health Organisation Fellow, advised on geriatric dietetics, and set up the first day-hospital in the United States. During his career Derek worked in England, before and after the NHS formed, Australia and America, as well as many developing countries as a WHO fellow. Aged 97, he now lives in Melbourne where in 2014 he was honoured as a Member of the Order of Australia in the Queen’s Birthday Honours for services to medicine.

Keep antibiotics working – it’s your business

Diane Ashiru-Oredope is the Lead Pharmacist for the Antimicrobial Resistance Programme (AMR) at Public Health England. Since 2014 she has led the development of a national (now international) innovative behaviour change initiative, called ‘Antibiotic Guardian’. Without a budget, but through effective use of networks and collaborative working, she has secured pledges from more than 60,000 individuals in the UK and abroad, to contribute to the fight against antibiotic resistance. Passionate about developing and championing others, Diane has been Public Health England’s nominated mentor on the Business in the Community (BITC) National Cross Organisation mentoring circles for the last two years. She is also a mum of two young children who keep her very busy outside of work.

Roll Model

Hannah Barham-Brown is a junior doctor, and Deputy Chair for professional Issues of the British Medical Association’s Junior Doctors Committee. Before medicine, she graduated from Durham University with a BA Hons in Combined Arts, and from Northumbria University with a BSc Hons in Paediatric Nursing.

As a #WonkyMedic, Hannah advocates for people with disabilities in the NHS and society. She is also an Ambassador for disability charity ‘My AFK’ (Action for Kids). Hannah regularly works with the media: She blogs for HuffPostUK, writes for national newspapers, and appears on news reports internationally. She campaigns for better access for wheelchairs, having crowdfunded for her own chair.

While shamelessly using her disability as an excuse to skip ‘leg day’, she’s completed a disability triathlon and a 10k run…so far.

Its the little things

Hannah is a Senior Advisor at the Behavioural Insights Team (BIT) working on projects in partnership with the NHS. Prior to joining BIT, Hannah was an NHS Graduate Management Trainee where she worked in an acute hospital and an ambulance trust. After a brief flirtation with a career in HR, Hannah found she just couldn’t stop getting involved with service and quality improvement projects. She developed and implemented improvement projects in all her roles in the NHS including in the Department of Health’s Behavioural Insights Team. She has also worked in policy teams at the British Academy and Measure of America. She holds a Geography BA from the University of Cambridge, and an MSc in Social Policy and Interventions from the University of Utrecht.

Four Words

Hannah works as a Communications and Toolkit Officer at South Yorkshire Housing Association where she is also involved in the Big Lottery funded project Age Better in Sheffield. After graduating from the University of Sheffield with a first-class degree in music in 2016, Hannah enjoys a variety of musical activites in her free time. When she’s not working, Hannah can be found exploring the best of what Sheffield has to offer, from live music to volunteering, food markets to theatre, and many beautiful sunsets in the Peak District.

Courage to Question

Imran is a physician who works in various settings, from clinical practice as a generalist with expertise in psychotherapy and pain medicine, to teaching, system design and healthcare commissioning, working to bridge the evidence-policy gap. Building upon over a dozen undergraduate and postgraduate accreditations, he continues to study a range of disciplines, including philosophy, ethics, psychology, behavioural economics, diagnostics, and statistics. He draws upon these different domains to better understand motivation, purpose and flourishing, as well as how to support decision-making.

On our doorstep

Jackie Marshall has 30 years’ experience working as a qualified nurse, initially working in operating theatres, later qualifying as a district nurse, then as clinical nurse specialist in both Oncology and Palliative care. Jackie is currently employed as an Associate Director of Nursing at Whipps Cross University Hospital (Barts Health NHS Trust). In her spare time Jackie has been working with the First Aid Support Team to provide first aid to refugees in Calais and Dunkirk.

Getting to zero

Jane Anderson is a consultant physician in HIV medicine at Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in Hackney, East London, and has honorary academic appointments at Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, and at University College London. Jane has spent her working life in London, qualifying from St Mary’s Hospital, and becoming senior lecturer at St Bartholomew’s Hospital Medical College. She established the first dedicated HIV service in East London before transferring to Homerton Hospital to setup and direct the Centre for the Study of Sexual Health and HIV. Between 2013 and 2016 Jane undertook a part time secondment to Public Health England, and in 2016 became a Visiting Fellow at The King’s Fund. Jane is chair of the National AIDS Trust, a past chair of the British HIV Association and an Assistant of the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries.

New Note

New Note are an award-winning charity project based in
Brighton. They use music to help people who have faced
addiction issues. Their musicians have faced many barriers,
including homelessness, isolation and mental health issues,
and use music to reconnect to themselves, their families and
the wider community.

Empathy creates radical impact

Naveed and Samiya Parvez’s journey began when their son, Diamo, was born in 2003. Diamo was diagnosed with severe developmental delay. He was quadriplegic, and had very little head control, requiring orthotic support. Through their heartfelt experience of the impact this had on Diamo’s everyday life, they sought a solution for themselves. Through scanning and 3D printing, they have developed a system to create tailor-made orthotics that take weeks (rather than months) to produce. They are designed to fit a growing child, and to improve the child’s quality of life. Sadly, Diamo passed away in 2012, but Naveed and Samiya have formed their company, ‘Andiamo’, in his memory to support the needs of children globally.

What’s the most under utilised resource in healthcare

Michael is the founder of 11 Health, the world’s first ostomy digital platform company focused on helping patients with long term chronic conditions who are connected to medical bags. He was diagnosed aged 12 with the incurable bowel condition, Crohn’s Disease. In late 2011 he became the eleventh person to undergo a small bowel transplant in the UK at The Churchill Hospital in Oxford. More recently he is a two-time cancer survivor.

Michael started blogging about his journey, and is a published author and patient mentor. He was the Co-Chair of NHS Digital Services User Council and helped implement the first Skype clinics in the UK. In 2015 he was announced as Stanford Medicine X first Patient-in-Residence, and is an Executive Board member.