60. Bill Graham - universal healthcare in action

Wild Card - Whose Shoes?

We are nearing the end of our mini series of podcasts about universal healthcare, in collaboration with London South Bank University and the Universal Healthcare Network.

With the NHS experiencing overwhelming demand, we need radical transformation with more power and resources within communities.
So today, Bill Graham, who is a Community Coordinator with Modality Partnership, focuses on community-based solutions!
Bill talks about the need for primary care to engage with communities and gives examples of how this works in practice, e.g maximising COVID-19 vaccine uptake among Asian populations and increasing childhood vaccination rates.
Bill highlights the success of community-led initiatives, such as health checks at sports events and baby days in shopping centres.
Bill also mentions the multi-generational home visiting project and digital outreach initiatives to enhance patient engagement. He calls for more investment in community solutions and stresses the importance of practical, asset-based approaches in healthcare.
Lemon lightbulbs 🍋💡🍋
🍋 Magic happens when primary care breaks out of the day-to-day cycle and starts to do things differently … High Street health!
🍋 Engage with local communities - they have a vital role to play in helping people look after their health

🍋 Get out and about, build relationships with your community and find out what is important to them
🍋 This episode has lots of practical examples of how to make healthcare more accessible by taking it out to where people are
🍋 Be culturally curious and find out what works for different populations
🍋 Shift power and be imaginative with resources
🍋 Be proactive – if people are not coming forward for health checks, try multi-generational home visiting?
🍋 Support family carers too - often the unsung heroes of health care
🍋 Turn theory and data into ACTION to address health inequalities
🍋 Volunteers can help people access health-related technology and start to close the digital divide
🍋 Don’t overthink things – start somewhere!
Some links :
Universal HealthCare National Inquiry
Easy Read Executive Summary
10 Leaps Forward - Innovation in the pandemic
Noreen Bukhari - supporting women from ‘BAME’ communities
Gill's Universal Healthcare work with MPFT

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Kapitel

1. Introducing Bill Graham (00:00:00)

2. The magic is possible when GP practices are willing to come together as one primary care network (00:03:55)

3. Come up for air. Get out of the day-to-day cycle and start to think about doing things differently. (00:05:35)

4. Get to know your local community - get out there and build relationships (00:06:39)

5. Turning theory and data into action to address health inequalities (00:07:57)

6. It might not be perfect first time – but you need to START SOMEWHERE rather than just sitting in a room looking at data (00:09:28)

7. Working together, even when imperfect, builds relationships and trust. You stick around and figure it out together. (00:11:40)

8. Bill starts to give examples – the update uptake of Covid vaccines, particular amongst Asian populations (00:12:16)

9. Tapping into what works for different cultures and groups by working WITH people (00:13:20)

10. Another example – testing for undiagnosed hypertension or high blood pressure– at a rugby sports event! (00:14:10)

11. Support for young families and babies – childhood vaccinations and more, with baby days in the shopping centre! (00:14:57)

12. If you make it fun, with activities for the children and so on, you pull people in (00:16:37)

13. Cancer prevention – via Women’s Health month and cancer champions programme (00:17:25)

14. Increasing the uptake of preventative services amongst those who would not normally access them reduces health inequalities. (00:17:57)

15. The community can really help with all of this! (00:19:09)

16. The postcode lottery of average life expectancy! Shoutout to Dr Farzana Hussain doing similar work in East London (00:20:00)

17. Being accessible is the key – why Bill loves shopping centres! (00:20:56)

18. Support for family carers too - often the unseen heroes of the health service (00:21:26)

19. Support for people with learning disabilities - Health Assessments as part of a fun day out (00:23:49)

20. Being proactive. Multi-generational home visiting, taking primary care to the people (00:25:54)

21. Success in getting people who need to, to make appointments at the GP surgery (00:26:12)

22. Digital outreach work - fabulous examples of volunteers helping people get to grips with NHS App and other helpful health-related technology (00:28:41)

23. So, how would you define this innovative approach? High Street health! (00:31:12)

24. A simple call to action – don’t overthink everything. Be brave and imaginative with resources. Start somewhere! (00:31:45)