In this episode we talk to Dr Najeeb Rahman, an emergency medicine doctor with years of experience working in humanitarian aid overseas. His years and breadth of experience gives a fascinating perspective on tackling health inequalities in the UK. I was so pleased he could join us for the episode.

Episode content

·      Why Najeeb gets excited about tackling health inequity (3mins)

·      Should secondary care and emergency care colleagues share Najeeb's drive to tackle health inequity? (5mins 30s)

·      Commonalities across primary and secondary care (8mins)

·      How hard it is to inform our interventions with data and evidencing what we are doing (11mins) and how we actually go about finding solutions to this (12mins) e.g. Core20Plus5, localising data.

·      Najeeb talks about developing teams to implement these interventions e.g. Emergency department youth navigator programme (15mins)

·      Building the evidence, case examples and sharing the learning (18mins)

·      Stakeholder engagement (20mins 30s) and who we get on board with the goal of tackling health inequalities... the power of evidence and patient stories.

·      Changes within secondary care to create more continuity of care (24mins)

·      Bringing people together to try and tackle health inequalities (28 mins)

·      Lessons and learning from other sectors (incl humanitarian aid sector) (32mins)

And to finish...

·      Najeeb's best authors and resources (44mins)

·      His Genie wish (47mins 30s)

Further resources

·      The Frontline Collaboration against COVID-19: Briefing to Health and Social Care Committee Introduction

·      The sphere handbook 2018

·      WHO – The cluster system

·      Classification and minimum standards for emergency medical teams

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