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Rich Taunt is part of Kaleidoscope Health and Care, a social enterprise working with others to build a future which is kind, connected and joyful. Rich is also the Lead-non executive and Chair of the Board at Here, a Sussex-based social enterprise provider of health services working to create exceptional care, for everyone.  Rich has spent his career working in health and care, including at the De...

Helen once had one of the most intriguing job titles – “Chief Transformation Officer”. After 30 years as an internal change agent in the National Health Service in England she still works for the NHS for part of her time but otherwise she works with a lot of different organizations and systems supporting large-scale change. Most of her work is still in the UK but she also works with healthcare sys...

Dr Dominique Allwood is Chief Medical Officer at UCLPartners and Director of Public Health at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. A Consultant in Public Health Medicine by background, she has worked widely across healthcare in leadership, management and advisory roles for provider and commissioner organisations, academic institutions, national bodies, management consultancy, charities and think...

Amanda Goodall is Professor of Leadership at Bayes Business School, at City, University of London. She studies leadership in healthcare and the qualities of the best leaders. This episode was recorded in collaboration with BMJLeader

Tara Kiran is the Fidani Chair of Improvement and Innovation at the University of Toronto. She is a leading academic who writes, broadcasts, and promotes family medicine. 

Luciano Duro is Professor and coordinator of the medical school at Univates (Universidade do Vale do Taquari), Rio Grande do Sul. There have been huge developments in medical education in Brazil creating major challenges against a backgroundof social and political change.

Professor John Campbell Murdoch, was the Founding Head of The Rural Clinical School of Western Australia. Known throughout the world as Campbell Murdoch, he is the doyen of rural medicine. His career has taken him around the globe from Scotland to New Zealand, via the UAE, Malaysia and Australia

Dr Gordon Caldwell’s is a physician with an interest in quality improvement. He published a photo that highlighted the paperwork needed to admit a patient with diabetes to hospital..and became a twitter sensation. But, Gordon has many other interests, including active safety management and the human side of medicine.

Savita Rani is a doctor, artist and poet.

Professor Martin Dawes has had a groundbreaking academic career in primary care on both sides of the Atlantic, starting in Oxford, moving to Montreal and now in Vancouver.  

Professor Marie Murphy is one of the world leaders in research on physical activity. Her research on walking underpins  much of our public health guidance.

Niall Downey is a cardiothoracic surgeon and transatlantic commercial airline pilot. He qualified as a doctor in Dublin in 1993, and undertook subspecialty training in cardiothoracic surgery.  He now flies transatlantic passenger planes for AerLingus. He combines his medical and aviation experience by teaching safety management. 

Pat Harrold is a GP, writer, broadcaster, and musician. We talked about his life in the media, the future of rural practice, and how to do …dermatology on the radio. 

Jan De Maeseneer is one of the world’s leading Academics in Primary Care… “Born in 1952, I was part of the ‘Baby Boomers’. There were six children and we lived in a small house. But, most important, our parents decided that after four years in the local neighbourhood school, we could go to the college to the city, and finally to university.  It’s only thanks to subsidies, financial support for chi...