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Healthy Thinking

by Life Sciences Hub Wales

From Life Sciences Hub Wales, Healthy Thinking is a podcast bringing new perspectives from leading thinkers in health and care innovation. We’ll hear from key innovators, leaders and influencers who demonstrate a commitment to transforming health and social care services through the implementation of innovative solutions.

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Episodes

  1. How NHS Wales is using innovation to bounce back after COVID-19

    Healthy Thinking asks what the future of the NHS in Wales looks like post-COVID and how one health board is meeting the challenge head on with an innovative solution to the backlog. Linda Prosser and Paul Mears from Cwm Taf Morgannwg Health Board discuss their plans.

  2. Smart technology: living healthier for longer

    Healthy Thinking talks to Carla Dix, from Delta Wellbeing, about a new technology-enabled community support system in West Wales that's helping people lead independent lives.

  3. Big Data, AI, and Machine Learning: how these can transform patients’ health

    AI technologies have the potential to help address important health challenges. Manish Patel of Jiva AI explores how machine learning can transform the screening of major diseases leading to better management of chronic conditions, delivery of health services, and waiting list prioritisation.

  4. Do you share your health data with tech giants?

    Should our medical data be shared widely with doctors, patients, and medical researchers to help benefit ourselves and others? In this podcast we discuss the ethics of Big Data in healthcare with medical lawyer Bleddyn Rees.

  5. How green is our NHS?

    The NHS is responsible for over 5% of the UK greenhouse gas emissions. Can innovation help the NHS make a difference in combatting climate change? Kathy Scott from Yorkshire & Humber AHSN explores.

  6. How innovation is the key to delivering a healthier Wales - with Eluned Morgan MS

    In the first episode of a new series of Healthy Thinking podcasts, the Minister for Health and Social Services shares some of her thinking about the priorities for NHS Wales.

  7. Value-Based Healthcare - Wales Leading The Way

    Value-based healthcare involves patients and clinicians working together to make shared, informed decisions to improve patient outcomes. In this episode, Life Sciences Hub Wales’ Deputy Chair of the Board Chris Martin hears from three value-based healthcare experts: Consultant Victoria Bates, who...

  8. Coronavirus - The Response From Welsh Industry

    Covid-19 has ushered in a new era of urgent innovation and with it, a new way of working and collaborating. In this podcast, Life Sciences Hub Wales’ Deputy Chair Chris Martin hears from two people at the heart of this response. Pryderi ap Rhisiart - managing director of the Menai Science Park,...

  9. How to Spread and Scale - The Billions Institute Story

    In the first of a two-part story, Cari-Anne Quinn tells the story of the Spread and Scale Academy; a groundbreaking, immersive programme geared to give innovators the tools they need to lead adoption at scale across their organisation, region or across Wales and beyond. In this episode, we hear...

  10. How to Spread and Scale - Attending the Academy

    More than 50 delegates from the NHS teams Wales and across the UK came to the Life Sciences Hub Wales in 2019 to attend the inaugural Spread and Scale Academy - a groundbreaking, immersive programme geared to give innovators the tools they need to lead adoption at scale across their organisation,...

  11. Providing PPE and Getting It Right

    The onset of the Coronavirus pandemic has placed an unprecedented demand on the provision of Personal Protective Equipment for frontline health and social care workers. Offers of help have been pouring in and Life Sciences Hub Wales has been appointed by Welsh Government to collate and offer...

  12. Accelerating Innovation in Healthcare

    If you're an entrepreneur with an exciting new product or service that you think might benefit patients, where do you turn to for expert advice and support? In this episode of Healthy Thinking, we find out about Accelerate - a pioneering collaboration between Life Sciences Hub Wales and Welsh...

  13. Joint Working - Industry’s Role in Healthcare

    Cari-Anne Quinn turns her focus to industry in this episode to understand how the private sector can work together with the NHS in order to improve patient outcomes. Healthy Thinking visits Zimmer Biomet, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of medical implants. And it’s a demand area. Nearly...

  14. The Story of the Welsh Health Hack

    Healthy Thinking goes behind the scenes at the third annual Welsh Health Hack - a two-day innovation marathon which pairs industry experts, digital technologists and data companies with NHS staff to help solve their problems. After the medical teams set out the challenges, the delegates form...

  15. Tackling Health Inequality with Sir Michael Marmot

    In 2008, a Commission reporting to the World Health Organization on the social determinants of health put a bold claim on its front page: ‘Social injustice is killing on a grand scale.’ “It wasn't just a slogan” Professor Sir Michael Marmot, the chair of that WHO Commission, tells us: “that was...

  16. Can APIs Transform Healthcare?

    You’d be forgiven for dismissing APIs as tech jargon, but the truth is we’d be lost without them. If you’ve ever booked a hotel online, ordered a food delivery or done your weekly supermarket shop on your laptop, you will have used an API (an Application Programming Interface). It’s the code that...

  17. The Future Health of Wales with Mark Drakeford

    In December 2018, Mark Drakeford became the new First Minister of Wales. In this podcast, he talks to Professor Sir Mansel Aylward about his agenda to inject innovation into the Welsh economy and embrace artificial intelligence: “If we deploy artificial intelligence in the way that we would want…

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  18. Social Prescribing with Sir Sam Everington

    To launch this new series of podcasts from Life Sciences Hub Wales, we hear from Sir Sam Everington - an innovator in general practice and a leading expert of social prescribing. Social prescribing links patients in primary care with sources of support within their local community in order to...

  19. Welcome to Healthy Thinking

    Welcome to Healthy Thinking from Life Sciences Hub Wales: a podcast bringing new perspectives from leading thinkers in health and care innovation. We’ll hear from key innovators, leaders and influencers who demonstrate a commitment to transforming health and social care services through the...

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

From Life Sciences Hub Wales, Healthy Thinking is a podcast bringing new perspectives from leading thinkers in health and care innovation. We’ll hear from key innovators, leaders and influencers who demonstrate a commitment to transforming health and social care services through the implementation of innovative solutions.

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From Life Sciences Hub Wales, Healthy Thinking is a podcast bringing new perspectives from leading thinkers in health and care innovation. We’ll hear from key innovators, leaders and influencers who demonstrate a commitment to transforming health and social care services through the implementation...

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