This series is supported by North East London Health Equity Academy. Each of these free webinars will take place online (Teams) on Fridays from 12.30-1.15pm. Focusing on five different topics, we’ll be joined by guest speakers at each session along with a Q&A. Open to everyone working in primary care across North East London, participants are welcome to join one or more sessions; we recommend joining as many as possible to gain the maximum benefit.
Dates & times
- Friday 27th September 12.30 – 1.15pm A GP’s Story: doing things differently to address health inequalities with Dr Andy Knox Friday
- 11th October 12.30 – 1.15pm Data-led optimisation: Addressing equity in diabetes care with Dr Daghni Rajasingam
- Friday 1st November 12.30 – 1.15pm A life’s work: Growing an approach to addressing health inequalities with Professor Mitch Blair
- Friday 22nd November 12.30 – 1.15pm People as Partners with Alyson McGregor and Sheinaz Stansfield
- Friday 13th December 12.30 – 1.15pm How do you know that you are making a difference? with Ailsa Cook Date & Time To be confirmed Putting it all together: How to make change happen
Session 1: Friday 27th Sept A GP’s Story with Dr Andy Knox Everyone is in favour of the idea of reducing inequalities. This is one GPs story of how he put aside feelings of world weariness and powerlessness to do something about it. Drawing on the stories of people he has met in his consulting room over the last 18years, Dr Andy Knox, a GP and population health leader explores why things are going so wrong for communities across the UK and what we might do to bring about change. Andy will make the case that unless we reorient ourselves in primary care, we will continue to perpetuate the staggering inequalities at work in our communities.
Session 2: Friday 11th Oct Data-led optimisation in diabetes care with Dr Daghni Rajasingam Evidence shows that simply designing services that work for the whole population will address inequalities and raise the quality for everyone. Dr Daghni Rajasingam, Deputy CMO GSTT and Medical Director for Secondary Care Transformation, will share learning which is applicable across both primary and secondary care. Daghni partnered with a small analytics company to analyse clinical metrics for all 4,500 diabetics on their waiting list. Simple stratification led to prioritisation of more global majority patients and people with higher deprivation scores. Seeing people earlier allowed modifiable risk factors to be addressed, reducing variation in how clinicians saw risk, redistributing workloads and releasing capacity in the system.
Session 3: Friday 1st Nov A life’s work: Growing an approach to addressing health inequalities with Professor Mitch Blair Join us for an engaging session with Professor Mitch Blair, who will share his extensive research and practical experiences at neighbourhood level, focusing specifically on addressing inequalities in outcomes for children and young people in Harrow. He will bring to life some of the insights from previous sessions, highlighting his passion for finding an effective intervention and harnessing it to serve the wider community. Discover how effective collaboration both with GPs in shared clinics and within MDTs improves outcomes. When you engage communities, you can start to transform health outcomes. Mitch will share how he has translated his passion into a comprehensive approach for addressing health inequalities at scale; a story not just of challenges, but a celebration of success.
Session 4: Friday 22nd Nov People as Partners with Alyson McGregor and Sheinaz Stansfield With fewer resources coming into primary care to tackle inequalities we need to recognise that one of our greatest assets is working with citizens as partners. Alyson McGregor, is Director of Altogether Better, an NHS organisation that has worked more than 25,000 citizens who have stepped forward to make a difference to their practice and community. Alyson will share evidence-based examples of how teaming up with communities makes a difference and Sheinaz Stansfield, former managing partner and powerhouse in adopting innovation in primary care, will describe how tapping into the strengths of the people on her list led to better outcomes for everyone through less conventional methods. Sheinaz’s enthusiasm is infectious and we hope you will catch the bug! Click here to register How to join Click on the button below to book the sessions you’d like to join: Once your booking is received a Teams Webinar link will be issued for each of the events you have registered for.
Session 5: Friday 13th Dec How do you know that you are making a difference? With Ailsa Cook The NHS is awash with well intentioned initiatives that don’t deliver what they promise. This is largely because not enough attention is placed on impact. Ailsa Cook, Director of Matter of Focus, has experience in helping people understand, track and report on the outcomes that matter to you, so that you can make the case for your work and have the biggest impact. The impact of the journey is just as important as the outcome when we are working to fix wicked problems. This session will explore what to pay attention to and how to track the impact on the people involved, developing understanding about why things work and the difference it makes to everyone involved.
Session 6: Date & time tbc Putting it all together: How to make change happen Further details will be shared at earlier sessions.
