Leadership & culture in healthcare

Leadership & Culture in Healthcare Series 8 Finale: Shaun Lintern on Campaigns, Candour and Culture Episode notes Guest Shaun Lintern, Health Editor, The Sunday Times. Twenty five years as a journalist, around fifteen of them as a specialist health investigative journalist. Previously at the Independent and the Health Service Journal. Began covering health after working as a local newspaper journa...

Paula McGowan is the mother of Oliver and the founder of the Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training on Learning Disability and Autism, now statutory across NHS England and social care. This episode is about her son Oliver, the clinical failures that led to his death in 2016, and how she turned grief into one of the most consequential patient safety campaigns in NHS history. Oliver: Who he was Oliver wa...

Jess's Rule Leadership and Culture in Healthcare | Series 8 Guest: Andrea Brady, mother of Jessica Brady and founder of the Jessica Brady Cedar Trust Jessica's Story Jess was 26 years old when she first became unwell, in the middle of the pandemic. Initial symptoms began with stomach problems, diagnosed remotely as a UTI without testing, her first course of antibiotics followed. Over the following...

In this episode, Matthew Winn speaks with Julia Jones, co-founder of John’s Campaign, a movement born from personal tragedy and grown into a powerful national force for the rights of family carers in healthcare settings. Julia shares the story that started it all the experience of her co-founder Nicci Gerrard’s father, Dr. John Gerrard, a man living well with Alzheimer’s who was admitted to hospit...

Episode two - series 8: Melissa Mead In this deeply moving episode of Leadership and Culture in Healthcare, Matthew Winn is joined by Melissa Mead — parent, patient safety campaigner, and one of the most compelling voices for change in the NHS today. Melissa’s story begins with her son William, a healthy, happy child who developed a cough shortly after starting nursery. Over six to seven weeks, th...

Leadership & Culture in Healthcare – Series 8 Episode Summary: Chris Pointon and the Hello, My Name Is Campaign In this episode, Matthew Winn sits down face to face with Chris Pointon — partnership manager by profession, and co-founder of the landmark “Hello, My Name Is” campaign alongside his late wife, Dr Kate Granger. With 2026 marking ten years since Kate’s death, Chris reflects on how a singl...

In this episode of series 7 of Leadership and Culture in Healthcare, Matthew Winn is joined by Professor Jugdeep Dhesi, Consultant Geriatrician at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, Professor of Geriatric Medicine at King’s College London, and President of the British Geriatrics Society (BGS). The conversation explores clinical leadership through the lens of geriatric medicine, examining h...

In this episode of Leadership and Culture in Healthcare, host Matthew Winn is joined by Professor Adrian Boyle, Consultant in Emergency Medicine at Cambridge University Hospitals and immediate past President of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine (2022–2025). The conversation explores clinical leadership at its most exposed: leading a national professional body in a politically charged environ...

In this episode of series 7 of Leadership and Culture in Healthcare, host Matthew Winn speaks with Dr Shelagh O’Riordan, consultant community geriatrician, national clinical leader, and President-elect of the UK Hospital at Home Society. The conversation explores the evolution of hospital at home and virtual wards, the realities of clinical leadership, and how care for frail older people can be fu...

Key Lessons from Partha Kar Context In this episode of Leadership and Culture in Healthcare, Matthew Winn speaks with Partha Kar, a senior clinician who combines frontline practice with national leadership roles. Partha reflects on leadership developed through clinical credibility, long-term system experience, and a strong commitment to accountability, team culture, and patient voice. ⸻ Core Leade...

Podcast Summary In this episode of Leadership and Culture in Healthcare host Matthew Winn interviews Karen Poole, CSP “Influencer of the Year” and Allied Health Professions (AHP) Rehabilitation Consultant. Karen explains her dual role: clinically as a consultant physiotherapist, and strategically as an AHP rehabilitation consultant influencing service design, patient pathways, and system change. H...

“Leadership and Culture in Healthcare – Clinical Leadership with Andrew Hodge Host Matthew Winn interviews Andrew Hodge, Director of Paramedicine at a UK ambulance service, about clinical leadership, professional identity, and system-wide working in the NHS. ⸻ Executive Summary Andrew Hodge describes the emergence of clinical leadership within paramedicine as a turning point for the profession. He...

Podcast Summary – Leadership and Culture in Healthcare with Dr Steve Turner Host Matthew Winn speaks with Dr Steve Turner, consultant paediatrician and President of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH), about leadership, responsibility, and building a culture that supports children, clinicians, and the wider health system. ⸻ Who is Dr Steve Turner? • Consultant paediatrician i...

Matthew Winn in conversation with Tony Young Matthew Winn interviews Tony Young, a clinician and national leader in healthcare innovation, about his career, leadership mindset, and how he manages multiple senior roles across healthcare, academia, and business. Tony explains that he is a consultant urological surgeon at Southend Hospital, Associate Medical Director for Innovation and Transformation...

Sarah Brampton has been on the CEO development programme for the past year and shares her motivations; insights and hopes for leadership and tackles the question - what kind of CEO do you want to be. Spoiler alert - it’s about leadership! Matthew Winn, podcast host and an experienced leader in healthcare in the UK.

The NHS aspiring chief executive programme develops leaders to be ready to take on accountable officer roles, through a structured development programme. Rachel Evans and Sean Fenwick share their insights into their development; motivation and aspirations. A great insight into our developing NHS leaders. Matthew Winn, podcast host and an experienced leader in healthcare in the UK.

The 10 year health plan published by the Government signalled important changes to the NHS provider sector. Safron describes the aspirations as “back to the future” with freedoms and accountability being described together. However the difference is the context with the need for foundation trust model to be fit for a new age. This must allow providers to innovate, but within a modern and update go...

University hospitals of Liverpool Group ( https://www.uhliverpool.nhs.uk/ ) is led by James Sumner. The hospitals Group came about from a recognition that despite having many specialist hospitals in the city, residents were not getting help at the right time. 5 different hospitals were undertaking their work separately and there was the need to support General Practitioners to access diagnostics m...

Barts Health is an organisation that delivers care from 5 hospital sites; has 40 operating clinical units; employs around 24 thousand staff and spends around £2.5bn of public money. Each site has its own leadership team, headed up by a site CEO and over all of this is an organisation wide executive team, with shared support services - with Shane as the organisational CEO and accountable officer. T...

Angela Hillery took on the group CEO role across the two mental health/community NHS Trusts in Leicestershire and Northamptonshire in 2019. The arrangement of joint leadership was initially to provide support to one of the organisations that was experiencing some challenges with leadership and quality. Over time the two Board realised there was benefit for both organisations. The two trusts remain...

Two hospitals in luton and Bedford came together into one Trust in 2020. There had been over 10 years of discussions and speculation about the Bedford hospital site/Trust, which had the challenges of a small district general hospital and working effectively 7 days a week in all specialisms. The two hospitals had a long history of collaboration and the coming together provided economies of scale an...

The Group covers North Bristol Trust, University of Bristol hospital and Weston Hospital Trust. The Trusts had discussed alignment for some time as they faced fragile service arrangements, competition between the organisation for staff and capital and too much time responding to ill health rather than developing anticipatory models of care. The collaboration started initially with a joint clincial...

Bringing together two hospital Trusts is a tough process - even more when one is under huge regulatory pressure. Nick explain the development of his Trust covering two sizeable hospitals and community heath service integration. Matthew Winn, podcast host and an experienced leader in healthcare in the UK.

Encompassing South Warwickshire, Wye Valley, George Elliot and Worcestershire Trusts, the Foundation Group covers three counties and provides acute and community health services. The joint working of the Trusts is voluntary, with Trusts choosing to join the Group and operate in the way that has developed. With Committees in common, joint roles for the CEO and Chair and other executive roles, oppor...

Mark Lloyd was a CEO of two Councils in England and then was the CEO of the national membership organisation, Local Government Association. Macro themes from the episodes and Mark: Where there is political consensus and stability, partnerships appear to be have developed and matured more easily With upper tier councils spending 70% of their revenue on adult and children social care - any devolutio...