Sharing information between healthcare professionals and patient's families / the people who matter to them - connecting the dots
Release Date: 04/11/2025
Sharing information between healthcare professionals and patient's families / the people who matter to them - connecting the dots
On the Move
On connecting the dots this month, Andrea, medical director for integrated and primary care at Somerset FT and a GP by background, is joined by Ali VanLaar, associate director of mental health and learning disability care, and Emma Lawton, liberty protection safeguards/mental capacity act lead (nmc), talking about the ‘people who matter to patients project’. The project focuses on improving information between a patient's healthcare professionals and the people that matter to them, such as family, friends and loved ones. “People will keep trying to say the same thing, and feel anxious,...
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On the move - Waking nights district nurse team
On the Move
Listen to our March podcast, with a snippet from our trust Team Brief until 4:00, and then Lizzie House, district nursing service transformation and development lead, interviews Katharine and Georgina on their role, teamwork and what goes bump in the night. Our Somerset NHS Foundation Trust on the move podcast offers an insight into our colleagues and their roles, released monthly.
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Understanding the role of pharmacy in acute hospitals - episode 6 of connecting the dots
On the Move
In this episode, Andrea, medical director for integrated and primary care at Somerset FT and a GP by background, is joined by Andrew Prouse, director of pharmacy at Somerset FT, including our sites such as Musgrove Park Hospital, Yeovil District Hospital, mental health, community hospitals and community services. He talks about how medicines are prescribed in hospital, including the differences between each site and challenges they face working across different systems, teams and locations, and the work they have been doing to improve, including plans for 2025. Recorded in November 2024. These...
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Exploring psychological professions at Somerset FT - Connecting the dots
On the Move
Marc McDonagh, Head of Psychological Professions, talks about the benefits psychological professions bring across the wide range of services Somerset Foundation Trust offers with our host Dr Andrea Trill, medical director, integrated and primary care. With around 200 - 300 colleagues, we have paediatric psychologists, neuropsychologists working in stroke services and psychological wellbeing practitioners in talking therapies to name a few.
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Transforming dermatology care in Somerset - Connecting the dots between primary and secondary care
On the Move
Dr Andrea Trill, our medical director for integrated and primary care, along with special guest Dr Jon Upton – a GP at St James Medical Centre, in Taunton and a GPwER (GP with extended responsibility) in dermatology and dermatology lead at the Integrated Care Board. This very first podcast explores the development of our new dermatology service in Somerset, and we hope we’ve managed to answer some of the questions that our primary and secondary care colleagues may have.
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Tom tells us about healthcare scientists at Somerset FT - connecting the dots
On the Move
Tom Lister, Lead Healthcare Scientist at Somerset NHS Foundation Trust, talks about healthcare scientists, of which the trust has over 200. Scientists across the NHS are responsible for around 80% of diagnoses’. In our trust you can find specialists in cardiology, audiology, respiratory, radiotherapy, medical electronics, data science and more.
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Support for children with neurodevelopmental disorders - Connecting the dots between primary and secondary care in Somerset
On the Move
This podcast series aims to connect healthcare colleagues and share useful information in Somerset. The idea is that it will help primary care and secondary care teams (acute, community and mental health) to work well together for the benefit of our population. Have a listen in to this episode, where Mary Trotman, childrens community nurse at Somerset FT, shares information and support available to children in Somerset with neurodevelopmental disorders. Find out who is best placed to make a referral (not necessarily the GP), how to make a referral and why a diagnosis is not necessary for...
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From patient to mental health nurse - Yvonne's story
On the Move
Yvonne Smith, one of our mental health nurses in the home treatment team, has shared with us her inspirational story. She talks about her love of her job today, and her journey from it’s beginning in 2019 as a patient in that very same service. Yvonne was a finalist in the ‘National Lived Experience Awards’ in September, for the category of ‘Hope and Positivity’! She won the ‘service user choice vote’ for her category. Hayley Peter’s, our chief nurse, said in her supporting statement for the Lived experience awards that “What I’d want people to know is, that it is a really...
info_outlineOn connecting the dots this month, Andrea, medical director for integrated and primary care at Somerset FT and a GP by background, is joined by Ali VanLaar, associate director of mental health and learning disability care, and Emma Lawton, liberty protection safeguards/mental capacity act lead (nmc), talking about the ‘people who matter to patients project’.
The project focuses on improving information between a patient's healthcare professionals and the people that matter to them, such as family, friends and loved ones.
“People will keep trying to say the same thing, and feel anxious, unless they really feel like they have been heard...”