ALLIANCE Live

In this episode, Katie Wood, Senior Legal Officer at Maternity Action , tells us more about the organisation's work on and around maternal and parental rights during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the impact of current policies on people – and particularly women.  Read the transcript of this recording, available on the ALLIANCE website .

In this podcast, we interview Audrey Birt and Kirsty Gibson, who are both currently shielding in line with the Scottish Governments shielding advice. Hear about the practicalities of shielding,  the impact its has had on their family and friends and how they think experiences could be improved.

In this podcast, Tommy Whitelaw is joined by newly qualified nurses Clare Manley and Craig Davidson where he hears more about their journey transitioning from theory to practice and profession during the pandemic and their new podcast initiative 'Retaining the passion' where they hope to shine a light on key issues affecting the nursing profession and wider society by speaking to various guests ab...

Chris Martin, the Chief Executive of Social Enterprise Scotland joined the ALLIANCE Live podcast as a guest to discuss how the sector has been effected during the COVID-19 pandemic. Chris describes the positives of seeing greater support and collaboration both internally and externally with Government and other sectors as well as the negatives of businesses inevitably having to close their doors....

To mark Employability Day we are joined in this podcast by Alistair Kerr, Director and Chair from BASE Scotland and David Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Union of Supported Employment. We're going to explore the impact of the pandemic on supported employment and look to the future. The BASE Network supports disabled and disadvantaged people across the UK and Europe utilising sustainable p...

In this Wellbeing Wednesday podcast, Gillian Shirreffs, PhD student at the University of Glasgow shares her story as a person with lived experience of chronic illness. Gillian reads some of her writing that has helped her navigate her diagnosis. The words offer an insight into how creativity has played a role in her management of pain and gives her own tips ahead of her workshop with Glasgow Women...

In this ALLIANCE Live podcast we sit down with Annie Gunner Logan, the Director of the Coalition of Care and Support Provider's in Scotland (CCPS). Annie discusses the range of issues unfolding with social care in the third sector, what's happening now, but also what's needed for a positive future. A fully transcripted version of this podcast is available to read on our website.

In this episode, Morven Brooks, Chief Executive Officer of Disability Equality Scotland, and tells us about the organisation's work and its recent survey into disabled people's experiences of physical distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic.  Read the transcript of this recording, available on the ALLIANCE website.

Across the world, hospitals are struggling to get the resources they need to care for people, from face masks to ventilators to ICU beds. But there’s another aspect of health care also in short supply: palliative care. In this podcast, Carer Voices Project Lead Tommy Whitelaw is joined by Mark Hazelwood, Chief Executive of Scottish Partnership for Palliative Care (SPPC) to discuss the importance o...

In this podcast, ALLIANCE Carer Voices Project Lead Tommy Whitelaw joins Music Detective, Andy Lowndes from Playlist for Life, one of the many ALLIANCE members. The wide-ranging conversation covered how you can find the soundtrack to your life and what it can do for people living with dementia and their carers – always but especially at this time.

There are approximately 759,000 unpaid adult carers in Scotland – many of whom were isolated far before the lockdown and for whom the COVID-19 pandemic has only exasperated challenges and uncertainty. In this ALLIANCE Live, ALLIANCE Director Irene Oldfather is joined by Scotland’s National Clinical Director, Professor Jason Leitch to discuss the impact of the pandemic on unpaid carers, support ava...

Rachel Ainley, Health Services Programme Manager from Crohn's & Colitis UK shares with listeners the way the organisation is supporting people they work with through the COVID-19 pandemic and sheds some light on the guidance they are providing people who are living with IBD.

In this ALLIANCE Live we are joined by Anne Callaghan from the Campaign to End Loneliness exploring the impact of loneliness, how COVID-19 has exacerbated it, how society can respond to support people affected by it and the importance of social connectedness and relationships. Anne Callaghan is the Campaign Manager in Scotland for the Campaign to End Loneliness, a UK-wide organisation focused on r...

In this podcast, Carer Voices Project Lead Tommy Whitelaw joins Lynne Innes, National Director for Education at NHS NES discuss the role of general practice nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic. The wide-ranging conversation covered the delivery of person-centred care, new ways of working in light of COVID-19, the nuanced opportunities and challenges that technology brings and what the current situ...

In this Wellbeing Wednesday podcast, Stephanie Quigley, Lead Complementary Therapist at Cancer Support Scotland provides listeners with an opportunity to focus on their breathing while walking and eating to produce calmness which is especially important in the current situation

In this podcast, Carer Voices Project Lead Tommy Whitelaw is joined by Hannah Martin, Research and Engagement Worker at Carers Trust Scotland in conversation on student carers’ experience of education. The conversation sheds a light on the ongoing research currently being undertaken by Carers Trust Scotland to better understand the experiences and challenges of student carers in higher education a...

Lucy Mulvagh, the ALLIANCE's Director of Policy and Communications, talks to Anuj Kapilashrami, PhD, Senior Lecturer in Global Health at the Centre for Global Public Health, Queen Mary University of London about intersectionality and the reasons for taking an intersectional approach to COVID-19. Intersectionality is the interconnected nature of different social categorizations like  ethnicity...

On Monday 18th May from 3pm, the ALLIANCE interviewed Calum Irving, Head of the Third Sector Unit at Scottish Government. This important ALLIANCE Live session will consider the response from the third sector to the coronavirus pandemic as well as give consideration to both the short term and longer term needs that the third sector is facing and provide an opportunity to outline Scottish Government...

In this latest ALLIANCE Live podcast, the ALLIANCE's Policy and Communications Director, Lucy Mulvagh, talks to Wendy Halliday, Director of See Me. As well as exploring 'kindness', this year's theme for Mental Health Awareness Week, Wendy talks about: How the See Me team and volunteers are coping with the COVID-19 crisis and lockdown Action related to COVID-19 – a wide range of new and adapted act...

Sodi Kakouris from Let's Get On With It Together (LGOWIT) , Maggie Wright from Families in Trauma and Benn Benjamin from LGBT Health and Wellbeing discuss how their services have adapted to the COVID-19 situation and how they have ensured that they continue to facilitate human connections for those they support. The wide-ranging conversation covered inclusive outreach, online courses, tapping into...

On Wednesday 13 May from 11am, the ALLIANCE interviewed Dr Donald Macaskill, Chief Executive of Scottish Care. This important ALLIANCE Live session covered the many challenges being faced by the care sector during COVID-19 pandemic, the amazing, brave and compassionate response by care workers in facing down those challenges and the indifference that Donald has seen in the slow response of Governm...

Tommy Whitelaw chats to Nurse Director - Acute Services at NHS Lothian, Gillian McAuley. In a wide ranging conversation they discuss how priorities have changed for Gillian's team during the COVID-19 pandemic and how her staff are still finding ways to ask people what matters to them.

In this ALLIANCE Live Wellbeing Wednesday we are joined by Dr Pip Osmond-Williams, poet and academic researcher. Pip takes us through how reading and writing poetry can allow you to engage, explore and escape, and recommends resources and technique to begin, or develop, your poetic journey during this period of lockdown. Pip Osmond-Williams is a poet and academic researcher from Macclesfield, base...

In this ALLIANCE Live interview, Iona highlights the importance of the third sector in supporting children, young people and families, the Scottish Government’s commitment to support for the third sector through Covid 19 and the importance of maintaining good communication with the third sector during this period. Iona, perhaps known to many as the Scottish Government Chief Social Work Adviser, wi...

Tommy Whitelaw sits down with Shaun Maher the Strategic Advisor for person-centred care; Scottish Government Healthcare Quality and Strategy Directorate & Principal Educator, Quality Improvement team, NHS Education for Scotland for this ALLIANCE Live podcast. The pair discuss how Scotland's health and social care professionals finding ways to ask ‘what matters to you’ and how might our respons...