On the Move

Rosie Grenter, clinical lead for the Somerset adult ADHD service and Kate Franklin, consultant psychiatrist for the adult Somerset ADHD service, join Andrea Trill, medical director for integrated and primary care at Somerset FT and a GP by background for the latest episode of connecting the dots. The small hardworking team of six members, supports adults with ADHD across Somerset. As part of a wid...

In this episode, Antony Zorzi, a ssociate director of pharmacy for clinical service, joins Andrea Trill,  medical director for integrated and primary care at Somerset FT and a GP by background. They explore upcoming improvements to the medicines discharge process at Musgrove Park Hospital, including the introduction of pharmacist screening to support safer and more accurate transfers of care. They...

Catch up on the latest December Team Brief and then hear Lizzie House, district nurse transformation lead, talk to Emma about her career journey to achieve her nursing PIN and become a band 5 district nurse this year.

This episode's guest is Tim Horlock, GP Partner at East Quay Medical Centre and current chairman of the Local Medical Committee (LMC), who breaks down how primary care works in practice for our colleagues in the trust with Andrea Trill, our medical director for integrated and primary care at Somerset FT and a GP by background. Take 20 minutes today while you are commuting or doing your admin to he...

Hayley is a health care assistant on Waverly ward at Bridgwater Community Hospital and in 2024, she brought her idea of a Dementia Café to life, creating a warm, welcoming space for patients, carers, and colleagues to connect beyond the clinical setting. Lizzie House, district nurse transformation lead, chats to Hayley about the café and how it helps her patients for Alzheimers Awareness Month. As...

This episode's guest is Libby Boorman, l earning disabilities nurse in our c ommunity team for adults with learning disabilities, who talks about the STOMP programme with Andrea Trill, our medical director for integrated and primary care at Somerset FT and a GP by background, who uses her experience to ask the questions a GP would want to know.

The peri-operative service helps patients from the moment surgery is contemplated, through the surgery and recovery, optimising health and wellbeing for patients scheduled for major elective surgery. Their aim is to identify patients as early as possible to support them to be as well as possible before their surgery date and reduce cancellations and re-admissions. Jacqui Wilson, senior operation m...

Johnny Scott, children and young people participation worker joins us for the second episode of our newest podcast 'On the Move', which lets you catch up on a snippit of the latest team brief before Lizzie House, district nurse transformation lead, interviews Johnny about his 'finding solutions group' and the benefits of patient / service user feedback in continuous improvement of our services in...

19 - 25 May is Dementia Action Week, so Andrea is joined by Helen Andrew, operational service manager for the central dementia service for Somerset FT and Cindy Firs, head of partnership at SPARK Somerset, overseeing the dementia partnership.  The team explains how the dementia service works, talking through the assessment, diagnosis and post diagnostic support visit, and what support is available...

On connecting the dots this month, Andrea, medical director for integrated and primary care at Somerset FT and a GP by background, is joined by Ali VanLaar, associate director of mental health and learning disability care, and Emma Lawton, liberty protection safeguards/mental capacity act lead (nmc), talking about the 'people who matter to patients project'. The project focuses on improving inform...

Listen to our March podcast, with a snippet from our trust Team Brief until 4:00, and then Lizzie House, district nursing service transformation and development lead, interviews Katharine and Georgina on their role, teamwork and what goes bump in the night.  Our Somerset NHS Foundation Trust on the move podcast offers an insight into our colleagues and their roles, released monthly.

In this episode, Andrea, medical director for integrated and primary care at Somerset FT and a GP by background, is joined by Andrew Prouse, director of pharmacy at Somerset FT, including our sites such as Musgrove Park Hospital, Yeovil District Hospital, mental health, community hospitals and community services. He talks about how medicines are prescribed in hospital, including the differences be...

Marc McDonagh, Head of Psychological Professions, talks about the benefits psychological professions bring across the wide range of services Somerset Foundation Trust offers with our host Dr Andrea Trill, medical director, integrated and primary care. With around 200 - 300 colleagues, we have paediatric psychologists, neuropsychologists working in stroke services and psychological wellbeing practi...

Dr Andrea Trill, our medical director for integrated and primary care, along with special guest Dr Jon Upton – a GP at St James Medical Centre, in Taunton and a GPwER (GP with extended responsibility) in dermatology and dermatology lead at the Integrated Care Board. This very first podcast explores the development of our new dermatology service in Somerset, and we hope we've managed to answer some...

Tom Lister, Lead Healthcare Scientist at Somerset NHS Foundation Trust, talks about healthcare scientists, of which the trust has over 200.  Scientists across the NHS are responsible for around 80% of diagnoses'. In our trust you can find specialists in cardiology, audiology, respiratory, radiotherapy, medical electronics, data science and more.

This podcast series aims to connect healthcare colleagues and share useful information in Somerset. The idea is that it will help primary care and secondary care teams (acute, community and mental health) to work well together for the benefit of our population. Have a listen in to this episode, where Mary Trotman, childrens community nurse at Somerset FT, shares information and support available t...

Yvonne Smith, one of our mental health nurses in the home treatment team, has shared with us her inspirational story. She talks about her love of her job today, and her journey from it's beginning in 2019 as a patient in that very same service. Yvonne was a finalist in the ' National Lived Experience Awards' in September, for the category of 'Hope and Positivity' ! She won the 'service user choice...