ALLIANCE Live

In this third episode of the Make Links Podcast, Chris Gourlay, the Evaluation Officer for the Links Worker Programme at the ALLIANCE examines the broader roll out of the Community Links Practitioner role throughout Scotland and how that compares to similar endeavours within the four nations. Chris is joined by Natasha Kallay, Policy and External Officers for the National Association of Link Worke...

In 2019 1,264 people lost their lives to drug related deaths in Scotland. That is a 6% increase on the previous year, 3 times that of the rate of the UK as a whole and the highest drug-related deaths rate in Europe. In this edition of ALLIANCE Live Professor Catriona Matheson, Chair of Scotland's Drug Deaths Taskforce, leads us through some of the reasons behind Scotland's drug-related death rate.

This podcast includes descriptions of living with endometriosis, including surgery, pain and heavy bleeding. If you do not want to hear this you can skip to 5:22 to hear the rest of the podcast. As part of Endometriosis Awareness Month, we are joined by Vicky Chapman, founder and leader of the Endometriosis UK Dundee Support Group, who shares with us her experience being diagnosed with endometrios...

This podcast includes descriptions of living with endometriosis, including surgery, pain and heavy bleeding. If you do not want to hear this you can skip to 12:34 to hear the rest of the podcast. As part of Endometriosis Awareness Month, ALLIANCE Development Officer Grace speaks to Candice McKenzie and Claire Beattie about their experiences of living with endometriosis, the challenges of getting a...

Episode 2 of the podcast produced by the Community Links Practitioners at the ALLIANCE focuses on their experience working with individuals placed in their respective surgeries shielding list. How have individuals responded to being placed on the list? What have been some of the challenges and where have they seen some amazing things happen from the communities they work in?

This series delves into the theme of courageous leadership. In this first episode we ask Rami Okasha, Chief Executive of Children’s Hospices Across Scotland (CHAS), what this means to him, what the hallmarks of courageous leadership are and who and what has shaped him on his leadership journey. We will also touch on how COVID-19 has changed leadership and what the third sector needs from its leade...

In this first episode, six members of staff from the Community Links Practitioner programme provide input on, 'What is the Links Approach?' The episode will provide some context around the creation of the programme and its purpose. Listeners will then have the opportunity to hear directly from CLPs about the day to day aspects of their roles. The Makes Links Podcast will showcase what it means to...

The My World My Health project aims to shine a light on the things that contribute to our wellbeing, but aren't necessarily 'medical' in nature. For example, we might all think of medications, doctors and hospitals as having an obvious impact on our health. We might perhaps even consider diet and exercise. But what about our employment, home life and even the community or society that we live in?...

Dr Sarah Fox from Manchester Metropolitan university on her research on supporting women with histories of substance use and domestic abuse.

Hame is a youth-led organisation based in Dundee supporting young people at risk of homelessness. The project has won support and funding to develop 30 new homes designed with and for young people in Dundee. Young tenants will be fully involved in decision making and will be able to gain skills and work experience in their own organisation. Telling us more about the project and how a co-design met...

“Taking that time to sit by the seaside, or to wander through a forest, or whatever it is, absolutely it centres you, and it makes you feel at peace. And it does wonders for my condition and my wellbeing.” For Self Care Week, listen to this podcast with Vicki Cloney, CVS Inverclyde Partnership Facilitator, interviewed by Carmen Paputa-Dutu, ALLIANCE Development Officer. Vicki talks about the benef...

In this podcast, Martin shares his story of battling his addiction to gambling. Martin takes us through the years of his life in the grip of his addiction that included many painful losses most notably the tragic passing of his son. Listeners will also hear about the difficult journey of giving up gambling and, now in recovery, Martin shares his work in raising awareness of the addiction and why a...

For World Kindness Day, Ben Thurman from the Carnegie UK Trust shares some of the learning from their work on kindness, including examples of or the impact of kindness from during the COVID-19 pandemic and some reflections on creating a ‘kindness culture’ in our workplaces. Find out more about the Carnegie UK Trust’s Kinder Communities project: https://www.carnegieuktrust.org.uk/project/kinder-com...

For World Stroke Day 2020, we are sharing some information from our members, Stroke Association, about their recent work and how you can get involved with their organisation or access support. Stroke Association have recently launched an online Stroke Café to facilitate peer support, have done research about the impact of the pandemic on stroke survivors and are working tirelessly to advocate for...

For self management week we spoke to Heather McCartney, a volunteer at see me, Nick Jedrzejewski, also from see me and Angie Ferguson, CEO of Perth Autism Support. For our discussion today we’ll be talking about the experience of those living with social anxiety during the pandemic, as well as looking at the impact of lockdown on people’s mental health more generally. We hear how both See Me and P...

Everyone has a story to tell and experience to share. Our shortlisted nominees for the Individual Transformational Story of the Year Award in this year’s Self Management Awards joined Louise Rogers, Development Officer in the Self Management Team for a chat about their stories, their self-management journeys and how it feel to be nominated  for the award. This podcast was produced  in pa...

This ALLIANCE Live podcast with Kirsty MacNeil (Aberdeen Foyer IMPACT project), Aaron Slater (Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations (SCVO)) and Oonagh Brown (Scottish Commission for Learning Disability (SCLD)) responds to the six provocations set out below: Provocation 1: What are the main ways that digital exclusion impacts the people you support? Provocation 2: What has been the biggest c...

Listen to this interview for Self Management Week, with our Development Officer Carmen and Sara from Branching out Argyll.

This podcast was recorded for the ALLIANCE Annual Conference.  We would like to invite listeners to join us on a ‘virtual walk’. We recommend you download this podcast and listen to it while going for a walk of your choice around your area. Our guest speaker, Will Manners, is an outdoors specialist. In this recording, he is guiding us a walk that is familiar to him, with prompts to help us no...

On the 14th of August, ALLIANCE Director of Integrated Services Andrew Strong interviewed Jonathan Cameron, Head of Digital Health and Care at the Scottish Government. The conversation focused on recent developments in digital health and care, including a refresh of Scotland's Digital Health and Care Strategy, inclusion work linked to the Connecting Scotland programme and progress on the COVID-19...

The ALLIANCE Live podcast welcomes Dr Carey Lunan as its guest in this episode. Carey is a Deep End GP and the Chair of the Royal College of General Practitioner's in Scotland. In conversation with Margaret Mckeith, House of Care Lead at the ALLIANCE,  Carey shares with listeners the general mood amongst GPs of the impact COVID-19 has had on them, their practice teams and the individuals in t...

This week Good Vibrations have shared some music played by their Self Management group in Glasgow using a gamelam orchestra, a type of musical instrument from Indonesia. Following the music a participant of the group shares an easy relaxation trick that she uses to stay calm in any situation.

In a  short series mini series of recordings we speak to three Allied Health Professionals (AHPs) from NHS Ayrshire and Arran about how they have adapted their services during COVID-19 to continue to care for and support the individuals they work with. For the first recording of this series we speak to Christina Starrs, a Advanced Practice Physiotherapist working within primary care Musculosk...

In a  short series mini series of recordings we speak to three Allied Health Professionals (AHPs) from NHS Ayrshire and Arran about how they have adapted their services during COVID-19 to continue to care for and support the individuals they work with. In this recording of our miniseries we speak with Gemma Murray, an Occupational Therapist working in localities of North Ayrshire. Gemma descr...

In a  short series mini series of recordings we speak to three Allied Health Professionals (AHPs) from NHS Ayrshire and Arran about how they have adapted their services during COVID-19 to continue to care for and support the individuals they work with. In this recording of the mini series we speak with Gemma O'Neill, an Occupational Therapist based in a Ayrshire prison. Gemma talks about the...