As we hit the festive season, join me and my 'magic mate', Florence Wilcock, as we reflect on 2022 and have a little fun.
Florence is a consultant obstetrician, a great friend and my co-founder of #MatExp. We chat about some of our key advent-ures in 2022, building on the #WildObs podcast we recorded at the end of 2021.
Florence hosts the informative and engaging The Obs Pod podcast, talking about all things maternity from the perspective of a person-centred obstetrician. It has something for everyone.
We are looking forward to 2023, particularly working on the new digital Family Integrated Care project, helping neonatal teams understand the experience of parents with a baby on a neonatal unit. This #QExchange project builds directly on ‘Nobody’s Patient’, which Florence masterminded.
It is wonderful to have people like Florence, Lyse Edwards and Mary Salama on board who really get the Whose Shoes approach and will bring creativity and humanity to ensure that it is a really engaging facilitation tool. Watch this space.
Lemon lightbulbs 🍋🍋🍋
- Take time to reflect on what has been achieved before tackling the next challenge
- Have fun! Your childhood only expires if you let it
- Lemon lightbulbs and poetry aid coproduction
- If you want to share good stuff online, you need a single click!
- Ripples build over time – don’t get despondent if things seem slow
- The Fête du Citron in Menton is awesome! Go if you can!
- #IntentionalCoffee helps build networks
- 'End of year' spending sprees may not get the best outcomes
- Ripples continue from Rosie Murphy's innovative ‘BAME’ Whose Shoes work in Croydon
- ... and from our pan-London events around maternity triage and ‘handover’
- The ‘black maternity experience’ report MATTERS
- Miles Sibley is one to watch! 😊 –Uncorking the bottle around evidence
- Outdoors is great for maternal mental health events!
- Be creative – find a way to do something that at first seems impossible
- Support paramedics to be confident in responding to maternity and neonatal emergencies
- The power of a blank sheet of paper!
- Being present at your grandson’s birth is VERY special!
- Look out for FAB Ted NHS talks by Florence Wilcock, Yvonne Newbold and more
- We'll always remember being together in Oxford when the Queen died
- The ripples continue from our Oxford event – including mutual learning with Kingston
- Our podcasts are creating strong connections around the world
- Lots to learn about inequalities and difference by talking to passionate people in other countries
- Read Benjamin Black's book ‘Belly Woman’
- Thank you for our our Mama Academy Awards!
- You can do something quite small - and it can amplify and become huge
- To embrace innovation and collaboration, funding models must be more innovative
- Rudolf was elf-taught!
Thank you for listening throughout 2022 - see you next year!
Here’s to a fun (and, in the best possible way, disruptive) 2023.
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