ALLIANCE Live

Emma Ritch, Executive Director of Engender is our guest for this ALLIANCE Live podcast. Joined by ALLIANCE Director, Lucy Mulvagh this conversation focuses on the ways in which the differences between men's and woman's lives are playing into the pandemic. Engender are a feminist policy and advocacy organisation working in Scotland. Its mission is to integrate women's equalities and rights into the...

This podcast is part of the ALLIANCE Live series, Wellbeing Wednesday, which will be coming to you every week during this period of lockdown. This series will have input from people across our membership and beyond, helping you to manage your own wellbeing at home. In this podcast, from our Self Management funded IMPACT project at Aberdeen Foyer , will guide you through a mindfulness exercise and...

This important ALLIANCE Live interview covers the COVID-19 pandemic, the most up to date clinical advice and the impact of the current situation for disabled people, people living with long term conditions and unpaid carers. As National Clinical Director, Jason is responsible for quality in Scotland’s health and social care system, including patient safety and person-centred care, NHS planning, an...

Nicola Bedlington, Special Advisor for the European Patients Forum (EPF) speaks to ALLIANCE Direcotr, Irene Oldfather in this ALLIANCE Live interview.   Recorded remotely during COVID-19, the interview covers what are the big issues for the EPF and how is it adapting and listening to its members.   Based in Austria, Nicola also reflects on the country's own response to the pandemic as we...

During this very difficult period the ALLIANCE is producing a series of podcasts for people living with long term conditions, disabled people, and unpaid carers. These will cover advice, support, and comment on COVID-19. In this podcast we hear from Eilidh Carmichael, Policy Officer at the General Medical Council, on what you can expect from doctors during the crisis. For general advice on COVID-1...

During this very difficult period the ALLIANCE is producing a series of podcasts for people living with long term conditions, disabled people, and unpaid carers. These will cover advice, support, and comment on COVID-19. In this podcast we hear from Jonathan Burton, Chair for the Royal Pharmaceutical Society in Scotland and a community pharmacist in Stirling. Jonathan explains the role of pharmaci...

This ALLIANCE Live focuses on a new Masters opportunity available from the University of Glasgow for students focusing on Digital Health Interventions. Carmen is joined by Simon Bradstreet, a Research Fellow and Lecturer and University of Glasgow's Health and Wellbeing Institute to talk about what the course covers, what students can expect to go on to after achieving an accreditation and how it r...

During this very difficult period the ALLIANCE is going to produce a number of podcasts for people living with long term condition, disabled people, and unpaid carers. These will cover advice, support, and comment on COVID-19. In this episode we’ll hear from Kate Cunningham, of Energy Action Scotland – a Scottish charity campaigning for the eradication of fuel poverty. She’ll give us some energy s...

During this very difficult period the ALLIANCE is going to produce a number of podcasts for people living with long term condition, disabled people, and unpaid carers. These will cover advice, support, and comment on COVID-19. In this episode we’ll hear from Colin Millar, of the Scottish Personal Assistants Employers Network (SPAEN). SPAEN was set up in 1999 to help people to take active control o...

During this very difficult period the ALLIANCE is going to produce a number of podcasts for people living with long term condition, disabled people, and unpaid carers. These will cover advice, support, and comment on COVID-19. In this recording we’ll hear from Scotland’s national carers organisations. Fiona Collie from Carers Scotland answers some key questions for us. The development of coronavir...

Scotland's Fire Starter Festival 2020 was held between the 27th January and 14th February. The festival allows people from all aspects of public service to share innovative and creative ways that we are all making a difference to Scotland. As part of the festival the ALLIANCE's Health and Social Care Academy wanted to explore Health Inequalities in the thriving community of Govanhill. Govanhill ha...

This episode of ALLIANCE Live is the third and final podcast being released to mark Co-production Week 2019. We are joined by Charlene Tait Deputy Managing Director of Scottish Autism and Catriona Stewart Co-Founder and Chair of SWAN (Scottish Women’s Autistic Network). Scottish Autism have, over the last few years been working together with SWAN ( Scottish Women’s Autism Network) and having their...

This episode of ALLIANCE Live is the second of four podcasts being released to mark Co-production Week 2019. I’m joined by volunteer facilitators and staff members of Bipolar Scotland to discuss the organisations Self Management Training course and what were their experiences of developing it through co-production.`

This episode of ALLIANCE Live is the first of four podcasts being released to mark Co-production Week 2019. Sally Shaw is the founder and director of Ideas For Ears , a third sector organisation supporting businesses & organisations to adopt best practices that are loved and wanted by people with hearing loss. Sally highlights the creation of the Hearing Access Protocol being developed making...

This episode of the ALLIANCE Live podcast is a special preview show for Co-Production Week. We speak with Sam Jordan from the Scottish Community Development Centre or SCDC who facilitate the Scottish Co-production Network and lead on Co-production Week in Scotland. Now in its 4th year, Co-production Week Scotland is about bringing people together from across the country to share ideas, learning an...

The ALLIANCE Live team worked with LGBT Health and Wellbeing to produce a podcast capturing a panel discussion around mental health within the LGBTQ community.  Within the discussion the panel talk about experiences of accessing mainstream mental health services so we can figure solutions to help access and the role that LGBTQ organisations can play. LGBT Health and Wellbeing welcomes the ent...

In this ALLIANCE Live podcast Jill Scoular and Julia Donaldson from the Home Care team with Glasgow City Health and Social Care Partnership are joined by Tommy Whitelaw to spend some time telling you about the partnership working with the Dementia Carer Voices team at the ALLIANCE. Home care are a provider of care at home services supporting 4500 service users every day. Our Head of Service had pr...

Digital evolution NOT transformation - Why your charity needs digital leadership Ross McCulloch, Director of Third Sector Lab , will join us to explore the building blocks of digital evolution and how your organisation can make change starting today. Ross will discuss the role of leadership, culture, data, flexible technology and service design in ensuring your organisation is truly user-focused....

This podcast marks both Self Management Week and Challenge Poverty Week, taking place from 7th to the 13th October 2019. The roundtable conversation highlights the impact money advice workers, based in 9 GP practices within some of the most disadvantaged areas of Glasgow, have had on the lives of many individuals who live there. 

Excellence in Care is a national approach to develop and implement a world-class, evidence based, national method to assuring nursing and midwifery care that reflects the ‘Once for Scotland’ ethos. The approach seeks to improve, integrate and coordinate the way nursing and midwifery services are delivered within the Scottish public sector to ensure that everyone receives a consistent standard and...

After the end of a long day of conversations with representatives from across sectors within health and social care, ALLIANCE Director Irene Oldfather sat down with Stefano Mallia, to reflect on his visit to Scotland and the relationship Scotland will have with the EESC post-Brexit.

Following on from their ALLIANCE Live Webinar Christina Naismith,  Head of Integration Implementation in the in the governments Community Health and Social Care Directorate and David Rowlands Professional Adviser for Integration joined us for a chat providing further insight around the plans for the Draft Framework for Community Health and Social Care Integrated Services.

Barnahus, or Child’s House, is a multi-agency and child focused response for victims and witnesses of violence.  Across Europe, the model is characterised by intensive, multi-agency and ongoing support, child friendly setting, and a single forensic interview.  Children and young people’s rights to support, participation, decision making and justice are enshrined in the model.  Fiona...

Susan Walls, Scotland Manager for Contact and Gill Meens, Young People and Families Scotland Service Manager for Versus Arthritis discuss how their respective projects are empowering young people and their families. Susan casts a spotlight on the role of GIRFEC (Getting It Right For Every Child) and Gill provides an insight into they integrated work they are involved within various  Rheumatol...