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Strasys “Thinking Differently” Webinar Series

Can the NHS address health inequalities?

Narrowing health inequalities

Date:  3rd September 2024
Time:  12:30 – 13:45 (UK)
Location:  Virtual

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Our next webinar will discuss the growing issue of inequalities and how it relates to the productivity, workforce, and NHS agendas.

There is a belief that the NHS because it addresses ill health, is the right organisation to address health inequalities. Hospital business models are designed to accept, assess, treat, discharge. So is the NHS the right institution to sustainably address health inequalities in communities, towns, cities and the nation? The current policy approach is addressing the symptoms – health inequalities – and not the causes – the social determinants of health inequalities.

This webinar aims to debate the wider determinants of health inequalities – Education, Economics, Environment, Community and Culture. We will consider the opportunity for NHS providers to rethink the skills, capabilities and capacity needed to take action.

We will cover

  • How to target the cause – action to narrow health inequalities
  • Data collection – what do we need to collect
  • What skills, capabilities and capacity do we need to build the business models
  • Real-life examples from around the world

Dr Nadeem Moghal

Honorary Senior Clinical Fellow at The Nuffield Trust and Chief Medical and Innovation Officer, Strasys

Nadeem joined Strasys in April 2022, bringing over 35 years’ expertise in the NHS and private sectors, as a consultant paediatric nephrologist, Medical Director, Director of Strategy. CEO and CMO.

Nadeem has led and delivered several critical transformations improving clinical capability, standards, leadership and culture.

Passionate about improving healthcare equality and life chances, he has been pioneering population-centric healthcare thinking. Recently, he has been supporting the reshaping of care for children and young people, developing a national healthcare quality governance capability and enabling an integrated care health system.

Nadeem continues to coach and develop future clinical and executive leaders through mentoring and the Strasys Academy. He has co-founded P3, an innovative platform for professionals to develop and engage with their organisations. He has been an external examiner at the Institute of Leadership at the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland, a Clinical Director at the Royal College of Pathologists (RCPath), and a Newcastle University Business School visiting lecturer.

Learning to think differently, underpinned by data analytics and connected to stories, has made Strasys his natural home with a renewed focus on the idea and reality of how to enable organisations to become learning organisations – a core human and community need.

Mr Ajit Abraham

Group Executive Director for Inclusion & Equity and Consultant Trauma & Hepato-pancreato-biliary (HPB) Surgeon, Barts Health NHS Trust

MBBS, MS, MA (Medical Ethics & Law), FRCS, FRCS (General Surgery)

Mr Abraham has been Consultant Trauma & Hepato-pancreato-biliary (HPB) Surgeon at the Royal London, Barts Health NHS Trust since 2005 and Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer, Queen Mary University of London. From 2022 he has also been Group Executive Director for Inclusion & Equity at Barts.

From Kerala, India, born in Ghana and schooled in Manchester, he trained as a general surgeon in Pune, India, then in HPB surgery and liver transplantation in London.

He was a Health Foundation QI Fellow at the IHI and Harvard School of Public Health (2011-12), Barts Health Chair of Surgery & Deputy CMO (2016 -18), Honorary Principal, The Staff College for Leadership in Healthcare and Visiting Professor of Surgery, Symbiosis International University, Pune, India.

Ajit has a longstanding yoga and Vipassana meditation practice.

Samira Ben Omar

Director at Samira Ben Omar Associates, Associate at the Centre for Population Health, Trustee at Nuffield Trust and Board Member at New Local

Samira has over 25 years’ experience of working in the NHS, Local Authority and Community & Voluntary Sectors.

She is an experienced consultant with a specialist expertise in Equality, Health Equity, and Community Led Collaborations. She has facilitated large scale national programmes and local grassroots community networks.

She advises national, regional and local organisations on leadership approaches to improve equality, diversity and inclusion.

Samira is the co-founder of the Community Champions Programme in North West London and the co-founder Community Voices – a social movement for change focusing on social infrastructures during and post COVID.

In 2022 and 2023, she was named as one of the 50 most influential Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic People in Health by the HSJ.

Maggie Oldham

Chief Executive of Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Maggie Oldham joined Blackpool Teaching Hospitals as interim Chief Executive in April 2024, from Lancashire and South Cumbria ICB, where she held the position of Deputy Chief Executive and Chief of transformation and recovery.

Maggie's commitment to enhancing organisational effectiveness and efficiency has defined her career. Beginning in 1982 when she joined the NHS on a Youth Opportunities Programme, working with a Pathology department before undertaking her nurse training.

Progressing through various nursing roles, Maggie moved into general management, assuming leadership positions and earning a reputation for her proactive approach to challenges, consistently leaving organisations in a stronger position than she found them.

Since 2007, Maggie has held executive director roles within provider organisations, serving previously as a CEO, most recently at the Isle of Wight NHS Trust.

With over two decades working in challenged Trusts and health systems, Maggie's passion lies in improving services for local communities, emphasising the importance of supporting colleagues in delivering better care.

Maggie holds a BSc in Nursing, a Masters in Ethics and Law, a Post Graduate Certificate Education and is an accredited Mediator.

Dr Arif Rajpura

Director of Public Health, Blackpool Council

BSc, MB ChB, MPH, MBA, FFPH, DRCOG, DFFP, PGC (Executive & Business Coaching)

Arif qualified from St Andrews University and Manchester Medical School. Following a period of time in clinical jobs he entered public health training in the North West of England in 1999.

Arif gained his first Consultant in Public Health post in September of 2004, based at Chorley and South Ribble Primary Care Trust. Since August of 2007 Arif has held the position of Director of Public Health of NHS Blackpool and latterly Blackpool Council.

Arif chairs the town’s Fairness Commission and has a strong focus on addressing the wider determents for ill health through work with the voluntary sector, housing, education and regeneration colleagues.

Arif has been heavily involved in national lobbying around alcohol policy and particularly minimum unit price. He is also currently leading a new approach to tackling obesity issues within Blackpool, particularly focusing on the obesogenic environment and helping to make the healthier choice the easier choice.

Arif’s current priorities include working on ‘whole systems’ integration working with partners from public, private and voluntary sector organisations to improve population health.

Arif is also a trainer for trainees in Public Health. He has an MBA from Manchester Business School and has more recently completed a Postgraduate Certificate in Executive and Business Coaching at Leeds Metropolitan University.

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Strasys “Thinking Differently” Webinar Series

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