Speakers and talks

Florence Wilcock begins her TEDxNHS talk like no other. Sharing stories, challenging outdated practice and most importantly, making us smile.

When a child can can no longer be parented at home, the state steps in. The child becomes the ward of the state, or the corporate parent. These children have done nothing wrong but their health and life outcomes can be dramatically affected. Hannah Kirkbridge challenges our assumptions about the care system and challenges us to ‘see more’ in care experienced people.

Arriving in hospital by ambulance can look like a Forumla 1 pit stop. Lines are in, clothes off, gown on. And no one has asked for the patient’s name. Ian Tyrell highlights the assumptions we make in healthcare settings about what is best for our patients and what can be achieved in rehabilitation.

Do you believe you have empathy? Do you believe that you would have empathy towards someone who had committed a serious crime? Jenny is an Occupational Therapist working in prisons in the UK. In her TEDxNHS talk she encourages us to.

Jenny Vaughn is a consultant who has worked in the NHS for 30 years. In her TEDxNHS talk she harnesses the power of storytelling to highlight the many conditions which contribute when terrible incidents happen in healthcare. In her talk, and in her work, Jenny challenges assumptions of individual guilt and blame and encourages us all to keep bringing hope.

Dr Khadija Owusu is on a mission to support a pipeline of black students into the medical profession. A workforce which represents its population will create medicine that is safer and more effective. For Khadija it’s as simple as ‘start where you are, use what you have and do what you can’.

Leanna Luxton shares her personal growth journey from well researched and learned practitioner to critical friend to her patients. Asking her patients ‘if you reach these goals, will it be enough?’, Leanna learnt to change her practice alongside her patients, adapting her tools and plans away from what she had been traditionally taught. Learning that it’s not enough to lift a cup and putting it down. Living means being able to raise a toast at your child’s wedding.

Climate change is poses the biggest threat to the future of our planet. But did you know, that climate change is also a health crisis? Nathan Hudson-Peacock shares his personal journey from expedition medic to eco medic. He shows us that protecting our planet is the best preventative medicine there is, and it’s easy to do.

What can children playing with play dough teach us about treating cancer? Nakul Patel shares the importance of teamwork, of valuing each member’s insights and contributions when treating patients. You never know when inspiration may strike.

Have you ever seen a child misbehaving in a supermarket? Did you secretly feel a little smug because your child would never behave like that? Yvonne Newbold was the mother of the child you were staring at. Her son has a profound intellectual disability and for many years his anxiety led behaviour resulted in many scenes like this…until she was taught to be a ninja parent.