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Marlene Winfield, OBE, is a campaigner for patient empowerment. She helps people through the labyrinths of the National Health Service and related institutions. In a career spanning decades, she has changed thousands of lives and prompted reform to breaking down some of the brick walls so many of face when seeking health care. In the 1980s, she ran a campaign that enabled three thousand British women get compensation through the American courts for injuries from a faulty contraceptive. Her 1990 book on whistleblowing led to the setting up of Public Concern at Work (Protect), a free legal advice centre for employees with ethical concerns.
Her research into the plight of carers in West London in the 1990s led to the setting up of new support services in four London boroughs. In recent years she has been the Vice Chair of the Thalidomide Trust, supporting people born with severe disabilities due to a medicine given to pregnant women, and a Non-executive Director of the Professional Record Standards Body, setting standards for a variety of electronic patient records. This includes making ‘patient goals’ a compulsory part of every NHS record. She is currently advising NHS England on content and use of the emergency electronic record that every patient in England has. She is also writing an Action Plan for using digital tools to help people with long-term health conditions live the most normal and healthy lives possible.
Join Marlene Winfield with Humphrey Hawksley in a Goldster Magazine Show that will try to clear the fog and confusion about how we can best navigate the NHS and our own health and well-being – 1pm Tuesday April 2nd 2022.
www.goldster.co.uk/book-ahead-events/the-goldster-magazine-show-with-humphrey-and-marlene-winfield-obe/ 15 use-titleThe last time I communicated with Rose Cecil, she was in a small, dank ditch in the Ukraine, along with 4 Ukrainian soldiers and a dog. All seeking shelter from an ongoing to missile attack.
An unlikely place to find the host of a fashionable Mayfair restaurant, but then Rose is an unlikely heroine. Tall, cropped hair that changes from shades of lilac to pink to silver, and uniquely individual style of dressing that dumbfounds any fashion, she has a commanding presence, and despite an engaging sense of the ridiculous, a razor sharp mind.
Over the last year or so, Rose has been applying her formidable drive to addressing the plight of the Ukraine. The Russians might have more on their hands to contend with they might judge. Rose, a direct descendant of the great Elizabethian Cecil dynasty, is a woman of resolve - and action. Working with a loyal committee she has brought together, Rose has been doing sterling work for MISSION UKRAINE UK, converting boats and acquiring 2nd hand 4x4s, then with her mechanical prowess, converting them into ambulances kitted out with medical supplies and emergency provisions before driving them out herself to the Ukrainian military. Join us for a live interview with Rose from the Ukraine, quite possibly from a ditch, to hear from the heart of the action, the grim truth of the situation and the remarkable resilience and courage of the Ukrainians. Join us on Tuesday 9th April at 1300 hrs.
www.goldster.co.uk/book-ahead-events/the-goldster-magazine-show-with-rosie-stancer-and-rose-cecil/ 15 use-titleAs we build for the future, we need to think about the values by which we live it. Our individual health is intimately connected to the health of our communities, the health of wider society and, ultimately, the health of the planet. Lord Nigel Crisp is passionate about turning on its head thinking about our well-being and how we live. We should not talk about prevention of disease but the creation of health, about the causes of health not the causes of disease. We should focus on the positive, not the negative approach to creating the conditions for healthy living. Lord Crisp knows exactly what he is talking about which is why he sits in the House of Lords as an independent crossbench member. He co-chairs the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Global Health. He was previously Chief Executive of the English NHS and Permanent Secretary of the UK Department of Health, the largest health organisation in the world with 1.3 million employees.
His recent book Health Is Made At Home, Hospitals Are For Repairs, borrowed its title from a clinical director in Uganda. In his many conversations and publications, he argues strongly for an active lifestyle, social relationships, access to nature, exercise and having meaning and purpose in our lives. We need to think we are in control with autonomy as individuals, as opposed to experiencing angst, alienation and anomie so prevalent in modern society. Join Lord Crisp with Humphrey Hawksley for a compelling fresh look at health and well-being on the Goldster Magazine Show, Tuesday April 16th evening at 7pm.
www.goldster.co.uk/book-ahead-events/the-goldster-magazine-show-with-humphrey-and-nigel-crisp/ 15 use-titleBeing understood is a basic human need. We all have a right to express our voice. But conscious efforts are often needed to put over our viewpoint. Kendra Dodd specialises in removing barriers that divide us. In these current troubling times, we need to understand better our own inner core and perspective, as well as that of others who may think very differently. We need to work on unifying and learning how to step into the shoes of others. Kendra Q Dodd teaches how this can be done in our community, family and at work.
Her new book Perspectives: Building meaningful connections by learning 4 steps to courageously speak unfolds a point-by-point approach in forging understandings with people unlike us and building better relationships with them. Kendra spells out how much we crave human connection and enjoy being with others. “Many people feel encumbered,” she says, “not because of the lack of potential to succeed, but because they are not sufficiently equipped with the correct tools to create the fulfilment of whom they desire to become.” Join Kendra Dodd with Humphrey Hawksley in a Goldster Magazine Show conversation that will challenge, ask tough questions with all the Goldster ethos of fun, stimulation and insight. This will be a fascinating and uplifting show. 1pm Tuesday April 23rd 2024
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