44. Happy New Year! Where do we go from here?

Wild Card - Whose Shoes?

Happy New Year - and thank you for listening!

For pretty much the first time ever, I’m starting the New Year with a plan. Or at least I thought I was. But, in the words of John Lennon, “Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans” so perhaps planning is overrated. Whose Shoes has had a pretty crazy, organic development up until now, so I’m sure it will continue to find its own course. We’ll see.
So, in this podcast, I look ahead to some of the Whose Shoes work we have planned for 2023. It will serve to put a marker in the sand as to where things are at; key projects and opportunities, and then perhaps compare at the end of the year, what actually happened.
Look out in particular for our projects around:

· Family Integrated Care in neonatal units

· Integrating services for children and young people.

· Exploring health inequalities, particularly around maternity care and how they affect women and families in black and ethnic minority communities.
I also talk about my article in Patient Experience News this month.

I share thoughts such as:

• “If you want to engage people, you have to be engaging.”
• Keep it simple.
• Listen to people and trust them.

Radical? You decide.
The podcast is enabling me to talk to amazing people who are making a difference in health care. I keep discovering more of them.
Coming soon: I will be talking to some fabulous new guests about health inequalities.
Here’s to 2023, and to paraphrase my friend, Helen Calvert:
"Let’s squeeze every bit of joy and opportunity from it”.
Lemon light bulbs 🍋🍋🍋
🍋 Keep podcasting and connecting people in 2023!
Links and resources:

1. Gill Phillips’ article in Patient Experience News, Jan 2023: COMING SOON!
2. Our. Fab Collection: https://fabnhsstuff.net/fab-collections/matexp
3. Our #FICare project: https://q.health.org.uk/idea/2022/no-more-theoretical-mummy/
4. Padlet contains links to ‘Whose News’ newsletter: Whose Shoes - overview (padlet.com)
5. 'BAME' community workshop in Croydon: https://youtu.be/rlfwwT0dvUg
6. Liberating Structures

References to other episodes

12. Terri Porrett - Fab NHS Stuff
13. Yvonne Newbold - Newbold Hope
16. Anna Geyer - visual recording
18. Nadia Leake and Rachel Collum - #FICare
25. Miles Sibley - Patient Experience News
34. Rachel Crook - caring for little ones, as a mum and a nurse!
43. #WildObs Christmas Special

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Chapters

1. 44. Happy New Year! Where do we go from here? (00:00:00)

2. Coproduction - radical? (00:03:36)

3. Patient Experience News - Gill Phillips' new article talks about coproduction in action (00:03:40)

4. Whose Shoes Fab Collection in 'NHS Fab Stuff' (00:06:30)

5. Project 1: Family Integrated Care in neonatal units - new digital 'mini experiences' (00:09:39)

6. Project 2: Integrating services for children and young people #MPFTWhoseShoes (00:13:44)

7. Project 3: Health inequalities, particularly affecting people from 'BAME' communities (00:17:35)

8. Project 4: Understanding and supporting student nurses (00:18:50)

9. And what about the podcast? Connecting and glueing it together (00:20:01)

10. Coming soon - exploring health inequalities with podcast guests (00:20:01)

11. Happy New Year. Life is short. Enjoy it! (00:23:24)