100 VOICES - NOW LIVE
The human side of making healthcare better.
Real stories about the ideas, relationships, setbacks and breakthroughs behind improvement.
Stories of what it really takes, and what it really feels like, to make healthcare better.
Listen to 100 Voices
Discover 100 Voices
What does it really feel like to try to make healthcare better?
Start with a conversation
Three conversations. Three very different perspectives on what it takes to make healthcare better.
Jono Broad
Long-term conditions patient, patient safety leader & NHS senior manager
From Bed to Board
What changes when lived experience becomes evidence?
Guddi Singh
Paediatrician, Broadcaster
What's Breaking Your Heart?
What if the problem you're trying to solve sits far beyond the clinic?
Jason Leitch
Chief of Defence Medical, UK Ministry of Defence
Don't Persuade the Whole Room
Do you really need everyone on board to begin?
Why 100 Voices?
Healthcare improvement is often told through projects, methods, measures and outcomes. But behind every improvement are people: trying things, building relationships, overcoming setbacks, learning and sometimes starting again.
100 Voices captures that side of improvement: the human wisdom gained from actually trying to make things better. Honest conversations about not only what changed, but what it took to make change happen.
What do experience, mistakes, relationships, courage and hindsight teach us? And how can we help that wisdom travel from one person to another?
"Because improvement isn't only about whether things get better. It's also about how better happens, and how better feels."
Go deeper with 100 Voices
Every 100 Voices conversation comes with more than something to listen to. Explore episode transcripts and discussion guides on the Q Community website, with resources to help continue the conversations in your own teams and communities.
More voices to come
Different roles. Different experiences. Different perspectives on making healthcare better.
Angela Logun
CEO and Co-Founder Daniella Logun Foundation
Mary Dixon-Woods
Director of THIS Institute and Health Foundation Professor of Healthcare Improvement Studies, University of Cambridge
Anna Baverstock
Paediatrician, Associate Medical Director for Wellbeing & Leadership
Gill Phillips
Campaigner and Creator of ‘Whose Shoes’
Lyse Edwards
Head of Operations
Nicola Davey
Director Quality Improvement Clinic, Pharmacist
Helen Lane
Consultant Physician, Associate Medical Director for Improvement
Heather Shearer
Educator, Coach,
NHS Manager
Penny Pereira
Q Managing Director
Joan Pons Laplana
Nurse, Activist
Brian Dolan
Nurse, Author, Founder of #EndPJparalysis and #Last1000Days
Jem Ramazanoglu
Quality Improvement Programme Manager
Victoria Saffin
Assistant Director of Quality Management
Amar Shah
Forensic psychiatrist, Chief Scientific Officer at Institute for Healthcare Improvement
Peter Lachman
Paediatrician,
leader in quality, safety & equity in healthcare
Florence Wilcock
Consultant Obstetrician
Bola Owolabi
Chief Inspector of Primary & Community Services, CQC
Ruth Bednall
Director, Continuous Improvement Academy
Jane Barlow
Communications and Media Officer
Poonam Gupta
Senior Improvement Advisor and Value Improvement Lead
Sue Lacey Bryant
Visiting Professor in Knowledge and Information Mobilisation
Victoria Woods
Director of Quality
Cat Barnet
Primary Care Occupational Therapist
Mel Holden
Rehabilitation
Co-Ordinator
Rosie Benneyworth
GP, Interim CEO Health Services Safety Investigations Body
Jemma Scott
Health Visitor
Ashifa Trivedi
Clinical lead pharmacist
Nicola Housam
Nurse consultant dermatology
Vicki Tully
Patient Safety & Healthcare Improvement Educator
Donna Colwill
Quality Improvement Practitioner
Karen Ashcroft
Nurse, Clinical Quality Lead
Tom Bodkin
Physical Wellness Practitioner
Amanda Roberts
Patient & Public Partner and Research Co-Principal Investigator
Jason Cohen
Patient Advocate, Healthcare Technology Pioneer
Melanie Griffiths
Former Director of improvement
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Adeshola Akanji
Transformation & Efficiency Project Manager, Disability & Neurodiversity Advocate
Charles Shepherd
Trustee and Honorary Medical Adviser to the ME Association, Doctor, Patient and Advocate
Carl Adams
Head of Improvement and Participation
Ben Allen
GP, Medical director
Divya Narasimhan
Integration & Equity Lead - Long Term Conditions (Neighbourhoods)
Adele Markland
Senior Improvement Manager
Emma Woodward
Physiotherapist, Associate Director of Allied Health Professions and Clinical Lead for Children & Young People
With thanks
100 Voices: How Better Feels was generously funded by a Q Community Supporting Q Connections Award, with support from the Academy of Fabulous Stuff, Somerset NHS Foundation Trust and others.
