Podcasts from the GOSH Learning Academy

In this episode, we dive into the vast and often overwhelming world of plastic waste in healthcare. Nicola Wilson speaks with Rianan Puttnam, Waste Manager at Great Ormond Street Hospital, and Liam Hogg, Head of Waste and Resources for NHS England, to uncover the true scale of the issue and the complexity of the waste streams we rely on every day. Together, they explore how healthcare generates en...

In this episode, we explore how infection prevention and control can evolve to become truly sustainable. Helen Dunn and Rose Gallagher join Nicola Wilson to discuss the pressures driving single‑use plastics, the role manufacturers play, and what it will take to build more resilient systems. Together, they unpack the challenges and the growing opportunities—from rethinking disposables to moving con...

In this episode of the Plastics Podcast, we explore the Comfort Loop Project — a systems‑level effort to tackle the enormous global waste created by absorbent hygiene products. With 300,000 nappies thrown away every minute, the environmental impact is staggering, but this project offers real hope. Bringing together behaviour psychologists, mechanical engineers, and life‑cycle assessment experts, t...

This episode introduces the Born Green Generation project — a new approach to embedding sustainability into perinatal care. Our guests discuss why Born Green goes far beyond carbon reduction, the enthusiasm from staff across maternity and paediatric hospitals across Europe, and the practical challenges of making sustainable change in busy clinical environments. You’ll hear from Josephine Frame, Ni...

In this episode, we explore a side of plastics that scientists have understood for some time—yet remains largely unfamiliar to the public and even to many working in healthcare. Dr Olwenn Martin, Associate Professor in Health and Environment at University College London, joins Dr Becca Elson, Chief Sustainability Officer’s Clinical Fellow at Great Ormond Street Hospital, to unpack the chemicals wi...

Kick off our new series with a compelling look at the plastics challenge in healthcare. Jason Dawson (GOSH’s Executive Lead for Sustainability) and Tsanko Dimov (Senior Net Zero Delivery Manager at Greener NHS) unpack the scale of the problem, the barriers staff and systems face, and the changes needed to drive progress. They also highlight inspiring projects from across the UK—showing how teams a...

GOSHPods - Safe & Sound: A Medicines Safety: Episode 4 – Safe and Sound - TPN In this final part of our medicines safety podcast, I speak with Dominika about Parenteral Nutrition and the added nature of complexity with Great Ormond Street patients. We would love to get your feedback on our podcasts, or your suggestions for future topics. Please help us by filling out our feedback survey at: https:...

The GOSH Bioethics Podcast returns for its third series, with new episodes released fortnightly. Join your podcast host Dr Joe Brierley in conversation with leading experts and contributors to the field of paediatric bioethics. These podcasts explore the ethical, legal, and social questions shaping clinical practice. After occasional episodes, the first series of this podcast aired in started in M...

The GOSH Bioethics Podcast returns for its third series, with new episodes released fortnightly. Join your podcast host Dr Joe Brierley in conversation with leading experts and contributors to the field of paediatric bioethics. These podcasts explore the ethical, legal, and social questions shaping clinical practice. After occasional episodes, the first series of this podcast aired in started in M...

GOSHPods - Safe & Sound: A Medicines Safety: Episode 3 – The Antimicrobial Angle Join our third episode in this four-part series on Medicines Safety in celebration of Medicines Safety Month where we discuss Antimicrobial Stewardship (AMS) with Samantha Hughes, Senior Specialist Pharmacist – Antimicrobial Stewardship. We dive into resistance, allergies, those pesky narrow therapeutic antibiotic age...

Safe & Sound: Safe and Sound: Medicines Safety: Episode 2 – Behind the Counter In part 2, I talk to Cejai Lindsey, Pharmacy Assistant in Pharmacy Procurement, about how pharmacy do their part at the point of entry of medicines into the hospital to ensure we make medicines as safe as possible for our patients, myth busters, and advice on people getting into healthcare.  We would love to get your fe...

Safe & Sound: Medicines Safety Month: Episode 1 - NICU Medicines Unplugged In our first episode of 'Safe & Sound: Medicines Safety Month', we chat to Kirsty Robertson - Senior Specialist Pharmacist for NICU, and Heather Parsons - Ward Sister and Governance Lead for NICU, about medicines safety in NICU. Join us as we explore teeny tiny doses, patient and parent involvement in medicines, and druggle...

The GOSH Bioethics Podcast returns for its third series, with new episodes released fortnightly. Join your podcast host Dr Joe Brierley in conversation with leading experts and contributors to the field of paediatric bioethics. These podcasts explore the ethical, legal, and social questions shaping clinical practice. After occasional episodes, the first series of this podcast aired in started in M...

The GOSH Bioethics Podcast returns for its third series, with new episodes released fortnightly. Join your podcast host Dr Joe Brierley in conversation with leading experts and contributors to the field of paediatric bioethics. These podcasts explore the ethical, legal, and social questions shaping clinical practice. After occasional episodes, the first series of this podcast aired in started in M...

Why Medicines Waste Matters – and What We Can Do About It In this eye-opening episode, host Caroline Dalton from the Medication Information Team at Great Ormond Street Hospital sits down with Tracy Lyons, Medicines Sustainability Lead and co-founder of Pharmacy Declares. Together, they dive into the surprising truths and staggering statistics, behind medicines waste in the NHS — from the financial...

The GOSH Bioethics Podcast returns for its third series, with new episodes released fortnightly. Join your podcast host Dr Joe Brierley in conversation with leading experts and contributors to the field of paediatric bioethics. These podcasts explore the ethical, legal, and social questions shaping clinical practice. After occasional episodes, the first series of this podcast aired in started in M...

 In this episode, Sarah Ahmed, GOSH Digital Fellow, hosts a dynamic conversation with Stephen Tomlin (Director of the Children’s Research and Innovation Centre and Medicines Sustainability Lead for North Central London ICB), alongside Stacey Moris and Nicola Moodey, Complex Asthma Clinical Nurse Specialists at Great Ormond Street Hospital. Together, they explore the environmental impact of asthma...

In this thought-provoking episode, host Nicola Wilson—Head of Education for Sustainability and Implementation Manager for the Born Green Project—sits down with Erik Ruiz, Lead for Sustainable Pharmaceuticals at Healthcare Without Harm Europe. Together, they explore the urgent need to minimise pharmaceutical pollution and protect against antimicrobial resistance, challenging the idea that we have c...

The GOSH Bioethics Podcast returns for its third series, with new episodes released fortnightly. Join your podcast host Dr Joe Brierley in conversation with leading experts and contributors to the field of paediatric bioethics. These podcasts explore the ethical, legal, and social questions shaping clinical practice. After occasional episodes, the first series of this podcast aired in started in M...

In this insightful episode, host Stephen Tomlin—Director of the Children’s Research and Innovation Centre at Great Ormond Street Hospital and Medicines Sustainability Lead for North Central London ICB—joins Caroline Dalton from the Medication Information Team at GOSH to explore how digital innovation and informed prescribing can benefit both patient safety and the environment. Together, they dive...

In this powerful episode, host Stephen Tomlin—Director of the Children’s Research and Innovation Centre at Great Ormond Street Hospital and Medicines Sustainability Lead for North Central London ICB—sits down with the inspiring Minna Eli, Advanced Pharmacy Practitioner and co-founder of Pharmacy Declares. Together, they unpack the staggering fact that 25% of the NHS’s carbon footprint comes from m...

In this series of GOSHpods goes Green, we will be exploring Medicines Sustainability and the impact of pharmaceuticals on our environment. In this introductory episode Sarah Ahmed, GOSH Digital Fellow, talks to Stephen Tomlin — Director of the Children’s Research and Innovation Centre at Great Ormond Street Hospital and Medicines Sustainability Lead for North Central London ICB. They give us an ov...

In this episode of Making the GRID, join host Dr Ahmed Elmakki as he sits down with two inspirational paediatricians who have successfully navigated the competitive UK GRID (Growth, Recruitment and Development) training pathway as International Medical Graduates (IMGs). Our guests, Dr Ehinomen Imoisili (ST5 Paediatric Trainee, soon to begin a GRID post in Paediatric Gastroenterology) and Dr Ogechu...

Join us as we talk to paediatric palliative medicine consultant Dr Dilini Rajapakse about two major principles in the specialty - symptom management and advanced care planning. In part 1 we cover what paediatric palliative medicine is, and explore overviews of advanced care planning and symptom management. In the second part (which will come out next week) we focus in on some of the symptoms manag...

Join us as we talk to paediatric palliative medicine consultant Dr Dilini Rajapakse about two major principles in the specialty - symptom management and advanced care planning. In part 1 we covered what paediatric palliative medicine is, and explored overviews of advanced care planning and symptom management. In today's second part we focus in on some of the symptoms managed by the palliative care...