Bendigo Community Health Services Podcast

We’re celebrating two years of our Endometriosis and Pelvic Pain clinic being open with a podcast episode! Listen as Clinical Lead Dr Karishma Kaur talks educating the next generation, why your care isn’t dependent on your postcode, how the Endo Clinic works best by constantly adapting to client needs, and the importance of validating women’s pain in general.

This episode, we’re looking into a crystal ball and asking some big questions about the future of health and social services, with researcher and commentator Kevin Pittman. We’re exposing some of the challenges we’ll need to overcome in just the next ten years.

Learn about trauma informed practice, and how BCHS' Karl Quast uses and promotes it within his work. Karl is a Community Connections Project Worker, based at the Bendigo Library. He supports people who are experiencing disadvantage to connect to services, or simply a conversation and a warm cuppa. This insightful episode may just change the way you view the people around you.

We're talking Lived and Living Experience: what is it, why is it important in a health service, and how is BCHS incorporating it into its day-to-day operations? Hear Senior Leader Insights & Analytics Jo Rasmussen and AOD Peer Worker Ange answer these questions and more as they share a little of their own lived experience in this episode.

BCHS CEO Mandy Hutchinson and past CEO Sue Clarke cover the power of the people, meeting Gough Whitlam, homelessness, addiction, natural disasters, and a novel pap smear promo from the past! Plus more, in this first episode of our 50th anniversary podcast series.