Healthy Thinking

Healthy Thinking

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.

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

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.

Jul 11, 2022 • 24:21

Smart technology: living healthier for longer

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.

Jul 4, 2022 • 23:52

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

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.

Jun 27, 2022 • 22:31

Do you share your health data with tech giants?

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.

Jun 20, 2022 • 24:46

How green is our NHS?

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.

Jun 13, 2022 • 23:33

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

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.

Jun 6, 2022 • 19:27

Value-Based Healthcare - Wales Leading The Way

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 was commissioned by Swansea University to explore VBHC; Emma Clifton-Brown, who is Head of Health and Value at Pfizer UK; and Dafydd Loughran, clinical entrepreneur at Concentric Health.

Dec 15, 2020 • 20:07

Coronavirus - The Response From Welsh Industry

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, M-Sparc on Anglesey - discusses the pioneering work that has been taking place there to tackle the pandemic: “The Covid pandemic meant we had to work together, pulling people from different sectors and bu

Jul 28, 2020 • 25:19

How to Spread and Scale - The Billions Institute Story

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 from Joe McCannon and Becky Margiotta, founders of the US-based company, The Billions Institute, who led the Academy. Since 2015, their company has created transformational learning experiences for over

Jun 3, 2020 • 26:29

How to Spread and Scale - Attending the Academy

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, region or across Wales and beyond.In the second of a two-part story, Chief Executive of Life Sciences Hub Wales, Cari-Anne Quinn meets the delegates who were learning how to ‘dig deep’ and ‘think big’

Jun 3, 2020 • 24:42

Providing PPE and Getting It Right

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 guidance to businesses offering their services to support NHS Wales. In this podcast, presented by Life Sciences Hub Wales’ deputy Chair Chris Martin, we’ll hear from a panel of experts recorded at a recent

May 18, 2020 • 37:29

Accelerating Innovation in Healthcare

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 universities. The programme does what it says on the tin - it accelerates up the innovation process by offering bespoke research, access to clinicians and patients and development expertise to enterprises.

Mar 26, 2020 • 27:08

Joint Working - Industry’s Role in Healthcare

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 200,000 hip and knee operations were performed in Wales, England and Northern Ireland in 2017. The hips and knees produced at the company’s Bridgend plant - its second-largest in Europe - are shipped ac

Aug 12, 2019 • 19:59

The Story of the Welsh Health Hack

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 cross-functional teams and thrash out a technological or digital solution, which they then present to judges in a Dragons’ Den-style finale. The top four pitches receive investment. Deputy Chair of Life Sci

Jul 16, 2019 • 23:25

Tackling Health Inequality with Sir Michael Marmot

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 based on the evidence and the urgency that I felt then and still feel”. Sir Michael is Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health at University College London. He has made it his life’s work to understa

Jun 4, 2019 • 17:38

Can APIs Transform Healthcare?

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 allows information to be passed from one user to another - and without it, the internet as we know it would struggle to exist. APIs are already being used in the NHS, but could they be used more to help

May 21, 2019 • 22:56

The Future Health of Wales with Mark Drakeford

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 to deploy it, it will be a liberating experience. It will free people up to do many other jobs that only human beings can do. And, if we find the right way of doing this, we will find that artificial int

May 14, 2019 • 25:11

Social Prescribing with Sir Sam Everington

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 improve their health and well being. Social prescribing also encourages patients to take greater control of their own health. “Probably over 70 per cent of people's health and well-being has a whole raft of

May 7, 2019 • 30:31

Welcome to Healthy Thinking

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 implementation of innovative solutions. Healthy Thinking launches in May 2019.

Apr 22, 2019 • 1:10

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