Agents Assemble - The School for Change Agents podcast

Welcome to Episode 2, Season 3 of Agents Assemble ⁠⁠The School for Change Agents⁠⁠  podcast.

This year, The School for Change Agents is brought to you in partnership with NHS England's Health Inequalities Improvement team. We're bringing you stories of incredible people across the country who are on a mission to narrow the gap and make healthcare equal, equitable and accessible for all!

In this episode, host Kerry McGinty is joined by Jo Trask , Health Inequalities and Patient Involvement Lead for Cheshire & Merseyside Cancer Alliance.

Jo tells her incredibly inspiring story of how the alliance are tackling Health Inequalities - one thing at a time and opens up about her experiences as a young carer fuelled her desire to make Health Care equal for all.

Slipper socks on, tea and the ready and enjoy the listen!

Featuring:

Kerry McGinty -  ⁠⁠@KerryEMcGinty⁠⁠

Jo Trask - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jo-trask-7913201ba

This episode was transcribed by sonix and can be found by clicking here: https://horizonsnhs.com/agents-assemble-2-season-3-the-school-for-change-agents-podcast/ ⁠

Discover more about the Health inequalities team here: ⁠https://www.england.nhs.uk/about/equality/equality-hub/national-healthcare-inequalities-improvement-programme/⁠

This podcast was recorded on 3rd November 2023.

Registration for this run of The School For Change Agents is now open! Sign up today at horizonsnhs.com/school

Welcome to Episode 1, Season 3 of Agents Assemble ⁠The School for Change Agents⁠  podcast.

This year, The School for Change Agents is brought to you in partnership with NHS England's Health Inequalities Improvement team. We're bringing you stories of incredible people across the country who are on a mission to narrow the gap and make healthcare equal, equitable and accessible for all!

In this episode, host Kerry McGinty is joined by Mary Hill, Head of Policy for the Healthcare Inequalities Improvement programme, Abdul Hamied, Deputy Director Strategic Partnerships for the National Healthcare Inequalities Improvement Programme and Sara Javid, Policy Delivery Lead for the National Healthcare Inequalities Improvement Programme.

We discuss why tackling Health inequalities is everyone's business as well as how each member started they journey of change.

Grab a cuppa, maybe a biscuit or two and enjoy the listen!

Featuring:

Kerry McGinty -  ⁠@KerryEMcGinty⁠

Mary Hill - @MaryHillLondon

Sarah Javid - @JavidSara

Abdul Hamied - @AbdulHamied70

This episode was transcribed by sonix and can be found by clicking here: https://horizonsnhs.com/agents-assemble-1-season-3-the-school-for-change-agents-podcast/

Discover more about the Health inequalities team here: https://www.england.nhs.uk/about/equality/equality-hub/national-healthcare-inequalities-improvement-programme/

This podcast was recorded on 2nd November 2023.

Registration for this run of The School For Change Agents is now open! Sign up today at horizonsnhs.com/school

Episode 4, Season 2 of Agents Assemble The School for Change Agents  podcast is here and we are going green!

This year's School featured Change Agents working in Health and Care who were not only making a big difference to people who receive care but also for the planet too! 

In this episode, host Kerry McGinty is joined Manraj Phull - Senior Net Zero Delivery Manager and Peter May - Net Zero Delivery Manager for Greener NHS.

Manraj and Peter share their story of how they got involved in #S4CA , Greener NHS, they discuss how the climate crisis is a health crisis and lead a powerful talk on how failure can lead to wonderful things. 

Get comfy, listen up and enjoy! 

Featuring:

Kerry McGinty -  @KerryEMcGinty

Manraj Phull - @ManrajPhull

Peter May - www.linkedin.com/in/netzeropeter/

To discover more about Greener NHS, head to: Greener NHS (england.nhs.uk)

Registration for this run of The School For Change Agents closed on the  22nd of January 2023. Stay tuned for updates on the next run!

Episode 3, Season 2 of Agents Assemble The School for Change Agents is here and we are talking about Solving Together!

In this episode, host Kerry McGinty is joined by Tim Ferris - Director of Transformation at NHS England and Bev Matthews - Clinical lead of NHS Horizons and programme director for Solving Together. 

Tim & Bev share the story of Solving Together. The improvement method that captures, assesses, tests and shares ideas on a range of issues affecting our Health services. In this fascinating conversation we discover how Solving Together works, the vision and why everyone should take part. 

Grab a cuppa, listen in and enjoy! 

Featuring:

Kerry McGinty @KerryEMcGinty

Bev Matthews @BevMatthewsRN

Tim Ferris 

To discover more about Solving Together, head to: solvingtogether.crowdicity.com 

Registration for this run of The School For Change Agents closed on the  22nd of January 2023. Stay tuned for updates on the next run!

Episode 2, Season 2 of Agents Assemble The School for Change Agents is here! 

In this episode, host Kerry McGinty is joined by Vin Diwakar - Medical Director for Transformation National Medical and Transformation Directorates NHS England. 

Vin shares his brilliant story. The journey of his career in improvement and how The School For Change Agents helped him and his team to implement change, with wellbeing at its heart. 

We hope you enjoy this episode - Happy Listening!

Featuring:

Kerry McGinty @KerryEMcGinty

Vin Diwakar @Vin_Diwakar

Registration for this run of The School For Change Agents closes at midnight on the 22nd of January 2023, it's also the last chance to claim your free upgrade (if eligible) to sign up for School or upgrade head to horizonsnhs.com/school 

We’re back with Season 2 of Agents Assemble The School for Change Agents podcast!

For this episode we're joined by a very special guest, Kathryn Perera, who is a co-author of the School For Change Agents and features in session four on FutureLearn.

In this episode we got to explore how Kathryn started her journey with the School, what’s happening now and a look to the future.

It was such a joy to record this episode, moving, heartfelt and inspiring. We loved talking with her, and we hope you'll enjoy listening just as much.

Featuring:

• Kerry McGinty @KerryEMcGinty
• Kathryn Perera @KathrynPerera

Registration for this run of The School For Change Agents closes at midnight on the 22nd of January 2023, it's also the last chance to claim your free upgrade (if eligible) to sign up for School or upgrade head to horizonsnhs.com/school 

It's our final episode of this season of The School for Change Agents podcast.  And so we're joined by a very special guest, Dr Esther Murray, who was featured in session two on FutureLearn.

We get to talk to her about moral injury, about worrying, about how the pandemic will affect us all and what you can do about them all.  We loved talking with her, and we hope you'll enjoy listening just as much.

Featuring

• Kerry McGinty @KerryEMcGinty
• Dr Esther Murray @EM_HealthPsych
• Zarah Mowhabuth @zarahMowhabuth
• Leigh Kendall @leighakendall
• Olly Benson @ollybenson
  

It's yet another episode of the The School for Change Agents podcast.

We look at the third and final live session, plus we delve into how School has developed over the years and what it's been like working on School during the pandemic.  

Featuring

• Kerry McGinty @KerryEMcGinty
• Olly Benson @ollybenson
• Zarah Mowhabuth @zarahMowhabuth  

Join us for our regular natter about all things The School for Change Agents.

With the school sessions on FutureLearn now complete, we catch up with Helen Bevan to discuss some of the key themes from this year plus a look at the history of School and how it has developed.  We also check out some of the feedback and discuss the live sessions.

Featuring

• Helen Bevan @HelenBevanTweet
• Kerry McGinty @KerryEMcGinty   
• Zarah Mowhabuth @zarahMowhabuth 
• Leigh Kendall @LeighAKendall   
• Olly Benson @ollybenson
  

Join us for our regular natter about all things The School for Change Agents.

This week we're discussing all things around complexity, and our first live session.  We talk about our favourite bits from the week, our standout comments and reflect on what School means to different people.

Featuring

• Kerry McGinty @KerryEMcGinty  
• Zarah Mowhabuth @zarahMowhabuth
• Leigh Kendall @LeighAKendall  
• Olly Benson @ollybenson

Join us for our regular natter about all things The School for Change Agents. 

This week we're discussing all things around public narrative, using social media and creating movements.  We're joined by Kathryn Perera, to discuss the process of working with Ollie Evans on his public narrative and what the reaction to that element of School has been.  And Leigh talks about sharing her story and how people are joining Twitter as a result of her video on social media.

Featuring

• Kerry McGinty @KerryEMcGinty 
• Kathryn Perera @kathrynPerera
• Leigh Kendall @LeighAKendall 
• Olly Benson @ollybenson

Join us for our weekly discussion about The School for Change Agents. On Episode 3 as we discuss all things around power, including find and retaining your power.  Discussion around our case studies of Mo and Benash, as well as pirates and Theory X and Theory Y.  

Featuring

• Kerry McGinty @KerryEMcGinty
• Zarah Mowhabuth @ZarahMowhabuth
• Leigh Kendall @LeighAKendall
• Olly Benson @ollybenson

On this week's episode we discuss Session 2 of The School for Change Agents - all about resourcefulness.  We react to various different parts of the session, as well as discuss the importance of the comments for helping everyone learn.

Our cast this week is 

Featuring

Leigh Kendall @LeighAKendall
Zoe Lord @zoelord1
Olly Benson @ollybenson

A full transcript will be made available at this link: http://horizonsnhs.com/category/school-for-change-agents/podcast/

This week we launched The School for Change Agents in 2021, a online learning experience for anyone who wants to create change in their local environment, with a particular focus on people working in health and care.

Alongside the resources on FutureLearn, we thought it'd be a bit of fun to create a podcast to accompany School over the next few weeks.  It's not intended to be additional learning content, more an opportunity for you to get a chance to meet the team who make school happen and hear some of our stories.  If truth be told it's a little like listening in on our team meetings.

This week we'll talk about some of our personal favourite parts of Session 1, as well as some of the comments and feedback that we've seen that particularly resonate.  Topics include why we love our case studies; whether we should rename New Power Old Power and why reading comments makes us happy.

We hope you enjoy this; we'd love any feedback (good or bad) and hopefully we'll be back next week with a few more words of wisdom.

Featuring 

Kerry McGinty @KerryEMcGinty
Zarah Mowhabuth @ZarahMowhabuth
Leigh Kendall @LeighAKendall
Olly Benson @ollybenson