Episode 2: Barney Scholefield and the 909 club

This episode is a recording of our conversation with Dr Barney Scholefield.  Barney is a paediatric intensivist in Birmingham, and an academic at the university of Birmingham.  During the first COVID waves, Barney hosted a daily Zoom meeting for all staff in the department.  There was no explicit agenda - the meeting was a voluntary coming together of colleagues from across the whole department.  We shared information, worries, laughter, music and even photography.  It was informal peer support, and also a portal for timely news and important announcements.  It was the best meeting of every day, and one of the best things to come out of the pandemic.  In this interview, Barney explains how the meeting originated and how he implemented it.  Barney also wrote a blog post about the initiative on the LfE website. (Recorded Sept 2021)