The Unprescribed Podcast

In this episode of the Unprescribed podcast, we welcome Professor Sir Sam Everington, GP at the Bromley by Bow Health Partnership in Tower Hamlets and Non-Executive Director of NHS England. The conversation covers Sam's decades of campaigning on race discrimination, public health and junior doctors' hours, the pioneering of social prescribing, what makes the general practice model work, and why the NHS needs to re-engage clinicians and break the rules. Music: Election Time by Kjartan Abel. This music is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

We're excited to share the latest episode of the Unprescribed podcast with Dame Marie Gabriel, Chair of NHS North East London ICS and the NHS Race and Health Observatory. She joins Jacob Haddad to reflect candidly on 45 years of advocacy and NHS leadership - and what community-led healthcare really looks like. Marie describes herself as a social activist at heart - born and raised in Poplar in east London. She's spent more than 20 years on NHS boards, including chairing East London Foundation Trust, and now the North East London ICS and the Race and Health Observatory (the work behind the rapid review that changed national pulse oximetry guidance, and the ongoing programme to close the maternal mortality gap for black, Asian and minority ethnic women). For anyone working on neighbourhood health, community engagement, or closing health inequalities - this one's well worth your time.   Music: Election Time by Kjartan Abel. This music is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

In this episode of the Unprescribed podcast, hosted by Jacob Haddad, we're joined by Tara Donnelly, a leading voice on tech-enabled models of care at home and former Chief Digital Officer for NHSX. Tara's NHS career spans more than 30 years - from ward housekeeper at the Royal Surrey, to Director of Operations at the Whittington at 30, to Chief Executive of West Middlesex University Hospital, to leading the Health Innovation Network for South London. At NHSX, she helped build the first tech-enabled virtual ward in the NHS in April 2020 - a model that today supports around 9,000 people every day. She now runs Digital Care, an advisory firm helping health systems and innovators scale digital care at home. For anyone looking for a hopeful, grounded view of what digital can change in the NHS - and whether the system really can - this one's worth your time.   Music: Election Time by Kjartan Abel. This music is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

In this episode of the Unprescribed podcast, hosted by Jacob Haddad, Mike Bell, Chair of North West London and North Central London ICBs, reflects on more than 25 years in NHS board-level roles. He talks about his journey into healthcare through HIV activism, the lessons he’s learned from both success and failure, and shares candid views on neighbourhood health, why delivery matters more than ambition and the foundations needed for change to last.   Music: Election Time by Kjartan Abel. This music is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

In this episode of the Unprescribed podcast, David Stables reflects on building EMIS (now Optum). He shares what decades inside healthcare IT have taught him about what must change.   Music: Election Time by Kjartan Abel. This music is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.