Dr Jonny Currie

Community, Health and Capital @ 19 Hills

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A podcast series exploring new approaches to primary care, public health and public service delivery, supporting the 19 Hills Wellbeing Centre and community activities in Ringland, a small area in the east of Newport in south east Wales.  We talk to colleagues and partners around the UK and beyond on how shifting to prevention, prioritising action on the Social Determinants of health and community-owned models of service delivery could change lives - and give staff a better job and purpose.

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Dr Jonny Currie

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Health

Latest episode

Nov 3, 2025

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Episodes

Why healthcare spending isn't always patient-centred or value-driven, and what we do about it, with Professor Sally Lewis (GP, health policy expert and author) 03.11.2025

Let us know what you think of the show Welcome back to another episode of the Community, Health and Capital podcast with Dr Jonny Currie , NHS GP and Co-Director of 19 Hills CIC .  Joining us in this episode is Professor Sally Lewis , GP, former National Clinical Director for Value-Based and Prudent Healthcare in NHS Wales, founder of the internationally recognised Welsh Value in Health Centre and...

Holistic approaches and the power of the gut with Dr Lisa, Lifestyle Medicine GP 04.10.2025

Let us know what you think of the show Welcome back to another episode of the Community, Health and Capital podcast with Jonny Currie and Matt Thorne , NHS primary care clinicians and Co-Directors of 19 Hills CIC. Joining us in this episode is Dr Lisa, Newport GP, specialist lifestyle medicine doctor, (new!) author and creator of Revive Prescribed , an online platform promoting holistic and patien...

Investing in #TechforGood with Paul Miller, Managing Partner and CEO, Bethnal Green Ventures 21.04.2025

Let us know what you think of the show Joining us in this episode is Paul Miller, Managing Partner and Chief Executive Officer at Bethnal Green Ventures (BGV). BGV started in 2012, with social innovation camps aiming to bring together people at the sharp end of social and environmental challenges with some of the best tech talent in the UK. The founders drew on learning from the success of acceler...

How organisations can work to secure kids' rights to play and outdoor spaces with Marianne Mannello from Play Wales 17.03.2025

Let us know what you think of the show Join us for our latest episode this time with Marianne Mannello, Assistant Director at Play Wales, a charity championing/promoting/advocating for children’s needs and rights to play. We talk about how outdoor play has changed in Wales and other countries over time, the different factors that can affect children's ability to play freely outdoors and how o...

NHS Hack Day - connecting tech and public service leaders - with Dr Anne Marie Cunningham 24.02.2025

Let us know what you think of the show In this episode we speak with Dr Anne Marie Cunningham, GP, former Associate Medical Director at Digital Health and Care Wales and now GP Advisor at the Department of Health in Northern Ireland.  Anne Marie talks to us about the NHS Hack Day coming up 1st-2nd March in Cardiff, how such events can build greater common understanding between NHS staff and the te...

Finding radical, trauma-informed and inclusive approaches to health with Dr Karen Sankey, #TheHolisticMedic 23.12.2024

Let us know what you think of the show Join us for our latest episode this time with Dr Karen Sankey (#TheHolisticMedic), GP and therapeutic coach. Dr Sankey set up Community Wellness CIC , a social enterprise designed to enable people marginalised by mainstream service approaches to find new approaches to wellbeing that respect acceptance, compassion, creativity and shared knowledge. Dr Sankey sh...

Engaging, developing, or organising with communities? Talking 'People before Programme' with Citizen UK's Tim Hall 09.12.2024

Let us know what you think of the show This episode introduces Dr Tim Hall, former academic lecturer, now Academic in Residence for Citizens UK , a network of groups and institutions apply a Community Organising approach to bring communities together to inspire and create change. The organisation has a long history of campaigning , but aims to do so through respectfully by strengthening relationsh...

Creating a Patient-led revolution in healthcare with Susannah Fox, author of Rebel Health 28.11.2024

Let us know what you think of the show This episode we welcomed Susannah Fox, author of Rebel Health and former Chief Technology Officer for the United States Department of Health and Human Services . Susannah walks us through why she chose to write a book about the need for more community- and patient-orientated healthcare innovation, but how such an approach could transform both the outcomes of...

Primary Care as a place of sanctuary for migrant groups: introducing Lizzie, Makeda and Mohammed from the Cardiff Refugee Project 11.11.2024

Let us know what you think of the show For our 10th episode we welcome Lizzie O'Brien, Makeda Kingue and Mohammed Quhill, current and former students of Cardiff Medical School all involved with Cardiff Refugee Health Project . The group talk about their work with Doctors of the World UK promoting the Safe Surgeries toolkit , designed to support primary care services in meeting NHS guidance on...

Disclaimer for Disney/Lucasfilm - the Chewies we're discussing today aren't one of yours 14.10.2024

Let us know what you think of the show In our 9th episode we talk to Dr Connie Junghans , GP in Westminster, London, Senior Clinical Fellow at Imperial College London and Clinical Lead for the Community Health and Wellbeing Workers (CHWWs - hence the bad Star Wars joke...) programme in West London. Connie talks to us about how they've implemented this model of proactive and comprehensive prog...

Increasing action on social determinants of health in primary care with Dr Selva Selvarajah, GP at Bromley-by-Bow 16.09.2024

Let us know what you think of the show Join us for our 8th episode as we speak with Dr Selva Selvarajah , a GP Partner at St Andrews Health Centre at the infamous Bromley-by-Bow Health Centre in Tower Hamlets, east London. Selva narrates a brief history of how Bromley-by-Bow grew from its roots as a community-led social action organisation into one delivering primary healthcare, but with a radical...

Integrating primary care, health and community services at a neighbourhood level with Pippa Britton OBE 19.08.2024

Let us know what you think of the show In this episode we speak with Pippa Britton OBE , Vice Chair of the Board of Aneurin Bevan University Health Board, Vice Chair of Sport Wales and double Paralympian for Great Britain. Pippa speaks about what integration of services could mean at a neighbourhood level and what effects this might have on experiences of care for service users, as well as the pot...

International health partnerships and frugal innovation with Dr Matt Harris 15.07.2024

Let us know what you think of the show In this episode we speak with Dr Matt Harris, Clinical Senior Lecturer in Public Health at Imperial College London, on how working overseas in low- and middle-income countries changed his perspective and practice and how such experiences, including in a partnership arrangement, could share learning, improve services and build solidarity between the UK and oth...

Promoting public and community involvement in healthcare with Professor Jennie Popay 17.06.2024

Let us know what you think of the show In this episode we speak with Professor Jennie Popay, Professor of Sociology and Public Health at Lancaster University on why and how communities of interest or of place can, and should, be involved in the planning and evaluation of health services. Jennie leads us on a path of understanding the history of public involvement in the NHS, her experiences of inf...

Developing health service and training pathways for health equity in Ireland with Dr Austin O'Carroll 20.05.2024

Let us know what you think of the show In this 4th podcast episode of the series we interview Austin O'Carroll, an inner city GP in Dublin since 1997, founder of Safety Net Ireland, a charity working to improve healthcare access for people who are homeless, and co-founder of the North Dublin City GP Training programme aiming to recruit and train GPs to practice inner-city medicine. Listen to...

Community Development and Organising with Action in Caerau and Ely (ACE)'s Dave Horton, former Co-Director and Learning & Training Director 21.03.2024

Let us know what you think of the show In our 3rd episode of the series we interview Dave Horton, former Co-Director of ACE (Action in Caerau and Ely - www.aceplace.org ) on the story of how a small community-based organisation in the west of Cardiff has grown in size and impact through its application of an Asset-Based Community Development approach, synthesising principles also from Community Or...

Baby and Me in Newport with Mark Carter from Barnardos - a proactive, trauma-informed model to transform outcomes for parents and children 22.02.2024

Let us know what you think of the show This 2nd episode of the Community, Health and Capital series interviews Mark Carter, a former social worker now Assistant Director for Children's Services at Barnardos covering south east Wales.  Mark describes Baby and Me - a collaboration between local services and the third sector in Newport supporting parents expecting a baby who agencies are concern...

The power of listening and relationships: interview with Dr Mark Spencer, GP and co-founder, Healthier Fleetwood 13.12.2023

Let us know what you think of the show This 1st episode of the Community, Health and Capital series interviews Dr Mark Spencer, a GP in Fleetwood in Lancashire. Mark talks through his career as a GP and how an encounter with a young man suffering from alcohol problems changed the way Mark thought about what value primary care and integrated services could bring to a community. After repeated and s...

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