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TEDxNHS 2024 Programme

Contents

Running order

Find about more about speakers on our line-up page.

Introduction

We’re excited to be back for our seventh live event since our launch in 2016, with our theme “Forward”, looking ahead to a brighter future.

TEDxNHS is a space where people across the health and care sector can come together and explore how we can do things better. It is driven by passion, innovation and collaboration. 

This year over 300 people applied to speak and share their ideas – our highest number of applications yet. It was fantastic to have so many brilliant ideas to choose from. 

Our line-up reflects a diverse range of perspectives, ideas, and reflections to challenge and inspire you on how to improve health and care for all. Then, once the speakers have left the stage, as attendees you have the power to take these ideas away and help put them into practice where you work. 

To help bring people together, one of our aims this year was to make sure we kept ticket prices low and affordable, so the event is accessible for all. We’re pleased to have reduced our ticket price to £30 from £40 last year. To reduce costs, we decided to not provide lunch, but instead have organised discounts with some fantastic nearby places, including Itsu and Arro Coffee. 

As well as low cost, we want to be low carbon too, reflecting the net zero pledge in the health sector. We have no printed materials – today’s programme is available on our website and via QR codes you may see around the venue. Our notepads and pencils are made from sustainable materials, as are your wristbands. And we’re even offering you an all-natural bag of seeds, to hopefully represent the seeds of an idea for you to take away and nurture.

We hope you have an inspiring and enjoyable day.

The TEDxNHS team

Location

The Royal Institution of Great Britain
21 Albemarle Street
London
W1S 4BS

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Some requests for the day…

We have some requests of you to keep everything running smoothly through the day:

Where to eat

You are welcome to eat your lunch in the building, except for in the theatre.

Our host

We’re really pleased to welcome back Rae Williams to host for the third year in a row.

Rae was a speaker at our 2021 event, with her talk “Somebody must go first”.

Our 2024 team

Co-organisers

Audience Experience Leads

Communications Leads

Curation Lead

Logistics Leads

Volunteer Leads

Partnerships Lead

Speaker coaches

Performer coaches

Our Partners

Headline Sponsor: CW+

CW+ is the official charity of Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.​ They work with their Trust to create world-class facilities, drive innovation and research, and enhance patient and staff wellbeing. Using their expertise in partnership building, arts in health and healthcare innovation, they develop creative solutions to support an evolving NHS.

CW Innovation

Led jointly by CW+ and Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, the CW Innovation programme paves the way for new ideas – and new ways of using existing ideas – that will improve patient care, patient experience and the way our hospitals and clinics are run. Their portfolio of projects has generated national recognition for the Trust as a leader in innovation and an early adopter of next-generation approaches to care. 

Best For You

Best For You is an innovative approach to mental health care designed for – and in consultation with – young people and their families. Through new state-of-the-art NHS spaces, diverse partnerships, and engaging digital resources, Best For You helps to address the growing and urgent crisis in young people’s mental health, making it easier for them to access the help they need. Best For You is run in partnership by CW+, Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, and West London NHS Trust. It is being evaluated by academic experts at Imperial College. 

Arts and environment programme

The pioneering CW+ Arts in Health programme builds on the robust body of evidence that outstanding design and engagement with the arts can improve physical and mental wellbeing. Drawing on 30 years of expertise, they create hospital environments that encourage patient recovery and support staff in delivering the best possible care through our art collection, participatory arts programme, and innovative, holistic design work.

CW+ has been proudly supporting TEDxNHS since our online series ‘Unlocked’ in 2021. TEDxNHS is especially grateful to CW+ for taking a chance on us whilst we pivoted our model during ‘the Covid-19 years’ and continuing to support us every year since. 

Find out more about CW+

Book Fairies

The idea of The Book Fairies is simple. There are people who like to read, and to share the books they’ve read. And guess what – everyone loves a nice surprise! These two things come together with The Book Fairies – giving people a chance to pop a sticker and some ribbon on a book, make it a little surprise gift for someone, and leave it somewhere to be discovered!

The Book Fairies launched in March 2017, and currently have almost 9,000 people sharing books in over 100 countries! 

Find out more about Book Fairies

Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management 

The Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management (FMLM) is an independent charity with a core belief that patient outcomes can be improved by professionalising healthcare leadership. FMLM sets the standards for medical leaders in the UK which are transferable across all professional groups within healthcare; recognising and celebrating good leadership through Fellowship awards. FMLM’s work is underpinned by these standards and contemporary research on leadership and leadership development. FMLM Applied, the charity’s commercial arm, designs and delivers bespoke developmental opportunities for individuals, teams and systems.

FMLM has been a longstanding partner of TEDxNHS since our first event in 2016.
 
Find out more about the Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management

Group Visual

Group Visual is a full service video production company, specialising in live broadcasts.

They facilitate content production across the spectrum of events and promotional content from Football Leagues and Karting Series to Conferences, Webinars and Content Marketing. Between Group Visual and their Partners, they’re trusted to deliver complete production services to some of the world’s biggest corporations and events. 

Alex Lambert – Photographer

Alex is a Medical Photographer at Chelsea & Westminster Hospital. Her role covers all clinical specialties including  Outpatients, inpatients, theatres, Ai cancer diagnostic imaging and bereavement. Before working in the NHS, Alex was a freelance photographer and director for 10 years. Her freelance work focuses on editorial PR portraiture her clients include, KPMG, IKEA, Shelter, Island Records, The New Yorker and many more.

Pot Gang

Pot Gang aims to alleviate all of the perceived barriers to inclusion when it comes to growing your own produce, making it accessible for absolutely everyone! Pot Gang have designed super accessible growing kits, which come with absolutely everything you need to grow different types of seasonal produce, allowing everyone to reap all the physical, mental, and environmental benefits of growing your own produce. 

Use discount code TEDxNHS20 at checkout on www.potgang.co.uk to get growing! Keep us updated on your growing journey (your seeds and your ideas) by tagging us on Social Media and using the hashtag #GrowYourIdeas

RADA Business

RADA Business helps people at work become brilliant communicators. They build on the work of one of the world’s most respected drama schools to deliver world class training programmes and coaching for organisations and individuals. RADA Business has kindly held bespoke sessions for all our TEDxNHS speakers every year since 2018.

Find out more about RADA Business

Royal Institution

The Royal Institution brings the public and scientists together to share their interest and passion for science. They believe there should be equitable access to science, and that people’s desire to engage with science and scientists should be nourished.

They help more people to discover science and engage more deeply. They create spaces for scientists and the public to explore science together. We inspire students to see a future with science. They empower people to explore and get involved. And offer charitable support to those, such as young people in disadvantaged communities, who might otherwise not be able to engage with science.

They’ve been doing it for well over 200 years, with an international reach, working with world-leading scientists, from Hannah Fry to Carlo Rovelli and Dame Sue Black to Sean Carroll.

Resources

We are aware that some of our talks today reference highly sensitive and emotive topics.

If you are affected by the conversation, please reach out to one of the organisations or support mechanisms signposted below:

Samaritans

Confidential support for people experiencing feelings of distress or despair.

Phone: 116 123 (free 24-hour helpline)

www.samaritans.org.uk

The NHS website also has a comprehensive list of support services that deal with a number of the topics above and more.

MIND

Promotes the views and needs of people with mental health problems.

Phone: 0300 123 3393 (Monday to Friday, 9am to 6pm)

www.mind.org.uk

Black, African and Asian Therapy Network

Home to the largest community of therapists of Black, African, South Asian and Caribbean heritage in the U.K.

https://www.baatn.org.uk

One in Four

One in Four specialises in supporting childhood survivors and current survivors of sexual violence, domestic violence, abuse and trauma and raising awareness of this challenging issue.

Supporting Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse & Trauma – 1in4 (oneinfour.org.uk)

NAPAC

NAPAC (the National Association for People Abused in Childhood) offers support to adult survivors of all types of childhood abuse, including physical, sexual, emotional abuse .

About NAPAC – NAPACor neglect.

Rethink Mental Illness

Support and advice for people living with mental illness.

Phone: 0300 5000 927 (Monday to Friday, 9.30am to 4pm)

www.rethink.org

Special thanks

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What happens next…

Today’s talks will be published on the TEDx YouTube in the coming months. In the meantime you can find all of our previous talks on YouTube and on our website.