Explorez tous les épisodes du podcast Let’s Talk Health and Care
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| 16. Science Isn't Scary: How Keyowa Is Bringing Research to Life Through Animation and AR | 30 oct. 2026 | 00:37:15 | |
Dr. Dami Okeyoyin and Tughu Aiyewa are the founders of Keyowa, an award-winning sci-health-tech startup using animation, augmented reality and immersive technologies to make science and healthcare easier to understand. What began as a collaboration between a scientist and an artist has grown into a mission to bridge the gap between complex research and the people it is designed to help. In this episode, Peter is joined by Dami and Tughu to explore Keyowa's journey from an ambitious idea to a Medilink South West Business & Innovation Award-winning startup. They discuss why communicating research is just as important as producing it, how immersive technologies can transform the way people learn, and the importance of sparking curiosity in future generations. The founders also share how their contrasting personalities and complementary strengths have shaped a business built on creativity, scientific rigour and shared purpose. Underpinning it all is a simple idea: science shouldn't feel intimidating. Through immersive storytelling and interactive experiences, Keyowa is helping make scientific knowledge more accessible, engaging and impactful. Stay healthy and take care! Find out more about Keyowa: https://keyowa.com/ Hosted by Peter Brindle and Mark Griffiths, the Let's Talk Health and Care Podcast by UWE Bristol's Integrated Care Academy dives deep into exciting research and service changes by speaking to the people directly behind them. | |||
| 15. Thriving or just surviving? RateMyShift explains why asking "How do you feel after your shift today?" matters | 20 août 2026 | 00:39:06 | |
In this episode, Dr Peter Brindle is joined by Olivia Crossing and Annie Taylor, both experienced NHS nurses and co-founders of RateMyShift, an award-winning digital platform that gives NHS staff a real-time voice about their working day. RateMyShift is a continuous feedback platform designed to prompt meaningful conversations between line managers and colleagues in real-time. Starting life as a box of smiley faces on a staff notice board, it evolved into an Excel spreadsheet and a QI project, and then into the digital communication platform it is today. Built for healthcare staff, by healthcare staff, it is a tool that can be used to identify problems early within a health and care setting, to stop them from developing into bigger, unresolved problems in the future. We explore RateMyShift's origins and evolution, and Annie and Olivia's dynamic together as co-founders. We talk about how hierarchy creates communication gaps that managers may not even be aware of, and also of the crucial role of coaching in helping managers turn data into change. Underpinning all of it is a simple concept that staff who feel heard and valued are better able to give patients the care they deserve. RateMyShift sits in the gap between intent and improved experience. Find out more about RateMyShift: https://www.ratemyshift.app/ Stay healthy and take care! | |||
| 14. Faces Rebuilt, Lives Restored: The Bristol 3D Medical Centre | 10 avr. 2026 | 01:01:44 | |
Rebuilding Identity: Inside the Bristol 3D Medical Centre with Lead Reconstructive Scientist Amy Davey Imagine losing part of your face, your smile, or even your identity and then meeting a team who can help you rebuild it. In this remarkable on‑site episode, hosts Marc Griffiths and Peter Brindle take listeners inside the groundbreaking Bristol 3D Medical Centre, the first NHS facility in the UK to bring 3D scanning, digital modelling and 3D printing together under one roof to transform patient rehabilitation. Our guest, Amy Davey, Lead Reconstructive Scientist and Lab Manager, guides us through the full journey: from ultra‑precise facial scanning to digital sculpting, from high‑tech resin and PEEK printing to the traditional hand‑crafting of prosthetics even down to the Singer sewing machine used to tailor bespoke silicone garments. More than a technological deep dive, this episode explores the emotional and therapeutic dimensions of reconstruction. Amy shares powerful patient stories, including individuals rebuilding confidence after cancer treatment, trauma, or congenital differences, and reveals how a prosthesis can do far more than restore appearance it can help restore confidence and someone’s identity. Along the way we discuss:
This is an inspiring and empowering episode that showcases innovation in practice, delivered with compassion. A must‑listen for anyone interested in health, technology, engineering, patient experience, or the future of personalised medicine. To learn more about the Bristol 3D Medical Centre and explore examples of their work, follow the link in the episode description. | |||
| 13. The Fragile Lifeline: Reinventing How We Make and Move Blood | 05 mars 2026 | 00:44:40 | |
In this episode of Let’s Talk Health and Care, Marc Griffiths and Peter Brindle explore the hidden complexities of the blood supply chain and the radical innovations that could transform it. Our guests in this episode, Professor Wendy Phillips, Dean for Research and Enterprise, and Dr Helen Sanderson, Senior Research Fellow, both from the College of Business and Law at UWE Bristol, share insights drawn from a decade of pioneering research into redistributed manufacturing and next‑generation blood products. Together, they discuss:
This episode offers a fascinating look at the future of life‑saving care, from regulation to innovation pipelines to the possibility of “better‑than‑natural” blood. The Redistributed Manufacturing in Healthcare Network: www.RiHN.org.uk | |||
| 12. Meeting young people where they are: The Empire Fighting Chance story | 12 déc. 2025 | 00:52:23 | |
In this powerful episode of Let’s Talk Health and Care, Marc Griffiths and Peter Brindle take listeners inside Empire Fighting Chance, a Bristol-based organisation transforming the lives of young people who have been, in their own words, 'knocked down by life'. Through boxing-inspired therapy, culturally competent support, and deep community connection, Empire Fighting Chance is reshaping how we think about mental health, violence prevention and youth engagement. Marc and Peter speak with Co-Founder Martin Bisp, Mariella and Elaine who share the origins of their unique model, the evidence behind their impact, and what traditional services can learn from meeting young people where they truly are. Together, they explore the challenges of working with young people affected by trauma, the urgent need for systemic change, including calls for an Office of Violence Prevention and the importance of empowering local communities rather than replicating top-down interventions. Listeners will also hear from a box therapist, who brings to life what therapy looks like in the gym environment, and a young person turned staff member, who shares their journey through adversity and how this approach helped them rewrite their story. Marc and Peter close this episode with some reflections on what health and care professionals can take from the Empire model: the value of culturally relevant support, the power of safe non-clinical spaces, and the need to be braver in commissioning innovative approaches for those who need them most. A compelling episode that challenges assumptions, highlights community-led innovation, and offers a hopeful look at what’s possible when we design services with young people, not for them.
Links: Uncovered: Identity-Based Mass Violence in Urban Contexts | IBMV | |||
| 11. Reflections on the first series | 18 nov. 2025 | 00:44:33 | |
In this special reflective episode, hosts Dr Peter Brindle and Professor Marc Griffiths look back over a remarkable year of Let’s Talk Health and Care, exploring the themes, insights, and powerful human stories uncovered across 10 episodes and 15 inspiring guests. From 3D-printed food and smart socks to social enterprise, restorative justice, and community-led health innovation, this episode weaves together the key patterns that have emerged across conversations, technology with purpose, research with impact, and people at the heart of everything. | |||
| 10. Beyond Hospital Walls: Healthcare in the Heart of the Community | 22 oct. 2025 | 00:39:45 | |
In this episode, we are on location at the For All Health Living Centre in Weston-Super-Mare with Mark Graham (CEO of the For All Healthy Living Centre) and Joanne Poole (Director of Nursing at Weston General Hospital)* We explore how partnerships between hospitals and communities are redefining what care really means and discuss the mission to move healthcare beyond hospital walls and closer to where people live their lives. Unpacking themes of trust, prevention, and collaboration, highlighting how local relationships and new ways of working can transform health outcomes are all explored. From 'tribal mapping' to re-imagining the workforce of the future, this episode shines a light on how small communities can lead big system change.
*At the time of recording this episode, Joanna Poole was working at Weston General Hospital. Joanne is currently on a secondment to Somerset NHS Foundation Trust as the Assistant Chief Nurse.
https://www.forallhlc.org/ | |||
| 9. Health Technology and Innovation Special | 18 sept. 2025 | 01:11:53 | |
In this episode we speak with three entrepreneurs and our focus is on innovation in health technology. We are joined by Professor Matt Freeman, who is the Centre Director at Future_Space, which is an innovation centre that has become the gold standard for university-industry collaboration. Future_ Space at UWE Bristol is a multi-award-winning innovation centre designed for pioneering high-tech high-growth businesses solving tomorrow's biggest challenges. We are also joined by Dr Jenny Bailey Cooper, CEO and co-founder of Ferryx, a university spin-out company developing innovative gut health solutions and Dr Zeke Steer, founder of Milbotix, has developed smart sock technology that's turning this everyday garment into a powerful health monitoring tool.
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| 8. Revolutionising Assistive Technologies with affordable innovation | 15 juin 2025 | 00:35:03 | |
In this latest episode, we are joined by Dr Appolinaire Etoundi, Senior Lecturer and Researcher in Mechatronics at UWE Bristol. From pioneering low-cost prosthetic legs to developing AI-driven assistive devices, Appolinaire is reshaping how technology intersects with healthcare and his vision to create a centre that uses AI, 3D scanning and printing to tailor affordable prosthetics in real time is captivating. The driving force for the vision is entirely user-centred - a career shift motivated by being challenged by a gold medal winning Para Olympian to consider making joints for people rather than robots... His mission is to design technology that empowers and not excludes. Interesting fact: The temperature in a prosthetic leg socket can reach 47-49 Celsius after 90 minutes of walking! There is so much to be done to improve this and many other aspects of living with prosthetics.
Useful links:
Appolinaire’s university profile: https://people.uwe.ac.uk/Person/AppolinaireEtoundi Cybathlon 2024: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLbl2Q1xGuA Bristol Centre for Enablement: https://www.nbt.nhs.uk/bristol-centre-enablement
Selected publications: Bio-Inspired Knee Joint: Trends in the Hardware Systems Development https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/robotics-and-ai/articles/10.3389/frobt.2021.613574/full Experimental Verification of Kinematics and Kinetics in a Biomimetic Bipedal Robot https://asmedigitalcollection.asme.org/mechanismsrobotics/article/15/1/014503/1140488/Experimental-Verification-of-Kinematics-and The Anthro-Thumb: a biomimetic hybrid soft robotic carpometacarpal saddle joint for the thumb, Frontiers in Robotics and AI https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/robotics-and-ai/articles/10.3389/frobt.2025.1496073/full | |||
| 7. Preventing the unthinkable: The Public Health approach to preventing child sex abuse | 13 mai 2025 | 00:45:15 | |
In this episode, we are joined by Professor Kieran McCartan, Professor of Criminology here at UWE Bristol, and an expert in applying public health strategies. Our focus in this episode is exploring a subject that is as challenging as it is crucial: the prevention of child sex abuse. Child sex abuse affects more children than most people realise and highlighting the urgent need for effective prevention strategies is the focus of this episode. Trigger warning: This podcast episode mentions the sexual abuse of children in the context of how we work together to prevent it. It affects all communities, 1 in 5 girls and 1 in 7 boys worldwide. Talking about child sexual abuse is important and part of the solution. If listening to the podcast has affected you and speaking to someone would help or if you simply want to learn more, the NSPCC website is a good place to start, please go to www.nspcc.org.uk/
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| 6. Bladder Matters: Taboos, Covid and Ketamine, transforming research into real world care | 17 avr. 2025 | 00:30:00 | |
In this episode, we speak with two leading researchers,Professor Nikki Cotterill and Dr Bahareh Vahabi and the focus of this episode on the work to addressing continence issues through community-based solutions and digital tools and the science related to bladder disorders, include the devasting effect of ketamine and impact of Corona virus on the bladder.
Episode links – CONfidence app: www.confidenceapp.uk
MSc Health Technology programme: https://courses.uwe.ac.uk/L5901/health-technology | |||
| 5. From Pixels to Plate: 3D food solutions for swallowing disorders | 17 avr. 2025 | 00:29:55 | |
In this podcast episode, Marc and Peter explore the revolutionary potential of 3D-printed food, with our guest Dr Alexandros Stratakos, who is an Associate Professor in Sustainable Agri-Food Production at the University of the West of England, Bristol and we will delve into how this innovation could bring taste, variety, and safety back to the table for those living with dysphagia.
Useful links: https://www.uwe.ac.uk/news/dysphagia-study
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| 4. Caafi Health – Addressing Health Inequalities | 17 avr. 2025 | 00:27:31 | |
In this episode, Peter and Marc are joined by Huda Hajinur, co-founder and Director of Caafi Health, and Dr Ilhem Berrou, Senior Lecturer on the Independent Prescribing Programme here at UWE Bristol.
Caafi Health is a community-focused organisation dedicated to addressing health inequalities, particularly within ethnic minority communities. It provides culturally sensitive healthcare services and health education to improve access and outcomes for underserved populations. We explore some of the causes of health inequalities, how trust underpins our communities’ interactions with the health and care system and the impact Caafi Health are creating through designing and delivering a model of community-powered healthcare.
Weblinks: Caafi Health: https://www.caafihealth.org.uk/ Community health clinics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkRf_SYkqH0 | |||
| 3. Robotic Telepresence and Stroke Rehabilitation | 17 avr. 2025 | 00:27:33 | |
Dr. Praveen Kumar, Associate Professor in Stroke Rehabilitation and Physiotherapist at UWE Bristol joins us in this episode to talk about his work in the field of stroke rehabilitation and the development of robotic telepresence and how it can support people at home with the exercises and social interaction. Robotic telepresence is a mobile robotic platform, and through this robot, participants can join live group exercise classes led by a remote instructor. They see the instructor on a screen, the instructor sees them, and they can interact in real time. Bristol After Stroke - bristolafterstroke.org.uk/ Next Steps Exercise Class - bristolafterstroke.org.uk/pages/31-next-steps Funder for our Robots project - emergencerobotics.net/ | |||
| 2. The Design and Development of Inclusive Learning Resources | 24 nov. 2024 | 00:25:53 | |
Noor Nixon, Inclusive Practice Project Manager at UWE Bristol and Antony Hill, principal investigator and Dean of Learning and Teaching at the College of Health, Science and Society, UWE Bristol, discuss the design and development of inclusive learning resources that enable workforce culture and behaviour change related to racism and discrimination in healthcare and education across the South West of England, as part of the Inclusive Training in Practice project. Useful links: learninghub.nhs.uk/catalogue/Inclu…gwithinPractice | |||
| 1. Introduction to UWE Bristol's Integrated Care Academy | 24 nov. 2024 | 00:23:00 | |
In this episode, Professor Marc Griffiths, Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Health and sponsor for the Integrated Care Academy (ICA) at UWE Bristol, and Dr Peter Brindle, Visiting Professor and Specialist Consultant and UWE Bristol, introduce the ICA @ UWE Bristol and discuss where it connects across the health and care spaces and with whom. Key examples outlining where the ICA @ UWE Bristol makes a positive impact within health and care spaces are discussed along with future work. Useful links: https://www.uwe.ac.uk/business/community-engagement/integrated-care-academy
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