Cultural competence in healthcare
A health service that is culturally blind will fail its citizens and patients. This failure will take many forms for example - medication adherence to complying with diagnosis and treatment plans to not managing Long Term Conditions for good health outcomes to mention just a few. There is substantial researched evidence in support of creating culturally competent health services in the UK and beyond. Cultural Competency is the ability to collaborate effectively with individuals from different cultures; and such competence improves healthcare experiences and outcomes.
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Workshops/Seminars/
Learning Events
If you are looking for challenging speakers on a battle of ideas or seeking some fresh and new perspectives talk to us. We can support or lead your workshops/learning events on any of the issues that interest you. We have a excellent speakers with substantial expertise on a range of health matters. We can run a number of learning events on line and can help you tailor an event to your specification. As a non profit entity our income is invested into the six areas that are our reasons for existence.
Engaging for Health
Remains the cornerstone of understanding health needs and ensuring that health systems are capable of delivering those needs. The reality is what passes at times for engagement is anything but engagement, fails to provide insights that can make health systems more responsive or deliver health in the manner in which the community would like to receive it. Terms like co-design and co-production have entered the lexicon of health engagement with promises and expectations that have been hard to match. Exemplars exist and they are sadly few and far between. Technology if used to capture views excludes those that struggle with technology.
The need to give communities the power to influence health services is critical as is informing communities when they have been able to influence. Honesty and openness in engagement is as essential as it is in a relationship. Understanding communities, stakeholders - extending reach, engaging, active listening, understanding insights and responding within timeframes helps build trust.
We run programmes on constructing service reviews, engagement designs, engagement technology guidance including social media and what is an insight and how to harness it?
Screening tool for Social Determinants of Health
The conversations on health inequality have become stale, statements of commitment, good intentions remain just that. Our analysis of failures on health inequality demonstrate failure to conceptualise clearly effecting- delivery chain and difficulty in translating health into a societal or community objective. Using a branch of Artificial Intelligence tools we are devising a tool that enables health care professionals to identify health related social needs and set in motion pathways to help patients. This will be a critical tool in the armoury of General Practice to help patients secure better health outcomes.
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Training Doctors in Asia and Africa - Our CSR Collaborators
We work with a number of private sector organisations to support the creation of medical workforce competence through on going CPD courses delivered in Asia, Africa and the UK - these can be accessed on line in the current climate. Aligned to this we currently have a number of projects that are adapting technologies for health at low cost -making access to health a reality for communities living in remote regions. We are open for technological collaborations, setting up delivery mechanisms and evaluating CSR interventions.
Resilience and Post COVID Recovery
As we move forward with the vaccine marathon and return to some form of normality it is clear that a number of communities have been left devastated by the impact of the virus. Peoples ability to cope with the impact on them and their families has been impacted by lock down restrictions that meant the usual structures for support could not be accessed. The data on COVID related deaths, infections tell a sad story that for some of us does not come as a surprise - we knew that a Black Swan event would devastate these communities - lessons were there to be learnt from Ebola and a number of infections. The question now is - Can we build resilience within our communities to make sure that they are better equipped for the next Black Swan event? If we do not urgently build trust and treat health as a societal objective we will fail again.
Our programme for resilience is based on learning and experiences post other disasters and Black Swan events.
If you want to help create strong resilient communities for now and the future talk to us on creating an alternative architecture for health.