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MedicsVoices is an international multimedia platform where we interview key opinion leaders in health and medicine around the world. The aim is to create dialogue, discussion, and debate with particular insight into issues of interest to all those involved in health care from the individual patient consultation to global health

10 HR AGO

Ngaire Kerse |Changing Perceptions about Ageing

Professor Ngaire Kerse is the Joyce Cook Chair in Ageing Well and a Professor of General Practice and Primary Health Care at the University of Auckland. She is a practicing GP at the Auckland City Mission. Since 2010 she has been co-principal investigator of a longitudinal study – Life and Living in Advanced Age: a Cohort Study in New Zealand (LiLACs NZ). She was listed in the New Year’s Honours as a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit. After training in primary care in New Zealand, Australia, and the USA, completing a Geriatric Medicine Fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania, and a PhD at the University of Melbourne, she has built a programme of research promoting activity and function in residential care, residential care organisational culture and outcomes, promoting physical activity in community dwelling older people, activity for depression in the very old, staying upright (preventing falls and injury) in older people in all settings, improving prescribing in primary care, and a large cohort of Māori and non-Māori in advanced age.

25 min
4 DAYS AGO

George Freeman | A Pioneer in Continuity of Care

I’m Emilie Couchman, and today I am talking with Professor George Freeman, an academic GP in Southampton for 20 years, then Imperial College London, and part-time in a West London practice until 2010. Now retired from clinical practice, George continues to engage in academic work that aligns with continuity and generalism; in his mind, the two key cornerstones of general practice. “Back in Southampton we academics were all part-timers in a ‘most peculiar practice’. Resulting continuity problems led to my MD thesis on Continuity of Care in General Practice, ongoing international work on continuity and eventually membership of the RCGP Commission on Generalism. Relationship continuity links directly with access, consultation length and patient enablement. Patients and professionals must trade-off seeing the right person against waiting for them. Ongoing NHS challenges, mostly stemming from underfunding general practice, threaten both continuity and generalism.” George is a keen organist, travelling regularly to tickle the ivories of many organs around the world. He has a passion for steam trains, and volunteers at Didcot Railway Centre in Oxfordshire.

25 min
31 JAN

Liz Darlison | Consultant Nurse and CEO

Liz Darlinson is a Consultant Nurse and the CEO of Mesothelioma UK, a national charity dedicated to supporting people living with, or supporting those with, mesothelioma and advancing research in this field. In 2004, Liz founded Mesothelioma UK. Mesothelioma UK | Supporting people with this asbestos cancer. She was appointed MBE in the 2019 Queen’s Birthday Honours, and became Deputy Lieutenant for Leicestershire in 2024, in recognition of her professional contributions to the community.She combines over 40 years of hands-on clinical practice with charity management, education, and clinical research to improve patient outcomes and raise public awareness of this rare, devastating disease. A Consultant Nurse in the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, she also holds an Honorary Senior Lecturer position at De Montfort University, the University of Leicester. She is a founding member of the International Thoracic Oncology Nurses Forum, a lifetime honorary member of Lung Cancer Nursing UK, and the first nursing board member of the International Mesothelioma Interest Group.

22 min
26 JAN

Aziz Sheikh | The Team Based Approach

Professor Sir Aziz Sheikh OBE is Nuffield Professor of Primary Care Health Sciences and Head of the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences at the University of Oxford. He is Professorial Fellow at Harris Manchester College, University of Oxford and Honorary Consultant with the UK Health Security Agency and Public Health Scotland.Aziz was previously Chair of Primary Care Research and Development, Director of the Usher Institute and Dean of Data at the University of Edinburgh. He has played important advisory roles to a number of governments, inter-governmental bodies, including the World Bank, World Health Organization and the World Innovation Summit for Health, and leading scientific bodies including the Academy of Medical Sciences and the Royal Society.Aziz has worked for over 20 years on digitising health systems, securely linking health and cross-sectoral data and then using these data to inform and influence health policy, improve the safety and quality of care, and develop personalised risk assessments. He is a fellow of 10 learned societies and he has been awarded numerous UK and international awards for his work. Aziz was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for ‘Services to Medicine and Health Care’ in 2014 and a Knight Bachelor in 2022 for ‘Services to COVID-19 Research and Policy

29 min
25 JAN

Philip Evans | Relational Continuity

Professor Philip Evans FRCGP is an academic GP and was for 31 years a GP partner in St Leonard’s Practice, Exeter. He has a long-standing research interest in relational continuity of care in general practice, as well as prediabetes/ type 2 diabetes and more recently primary care genomics.He is currently National Associate Director of Health and Care Research in the NIHR Research Delivery Network (RDN) and was previously the NIHR CRN National Specialty Lead for Primary Care. During the COVID-19 pandemic he was Deputy Chair of the NIHR Urgent Public Health (UPH) Group and has recently led the CRN engagement with the four-nation PRINCIPLE and PANORAMIC studies of community-based treatment of COVID-19. He has over 28 years’ experience of leading primary care research networks, both locally and nationally. For the last four years he has been leading the NIHR CRN Primary care Research Strategy.

24 min
10 JAN

Andrew Papanikitas | Accidental Ethicist

Andrew is a GP, educator, and an academic in Oxford. He has been the Deputy Editor of the British Journal of General Practice since 2022. He co-edited the BMA medical book award-winning Handbook of Primary Care Ethics (CRC press) and BMA Highly Commended Marketization, Health and Ethics (Routledge) in 2018, and has written undergraduate text books on clinical skills, child health as well as ethics and sociology for medical students. He is the co-convenor of the Society of Apothecaries’ diploma examination in philosophy. He volunteers with several local initiatives including the Oxford University Hospitals Ethical Advisory Group and the Magdalen College School medical careers programme. He is the proud father of two amazing little girls and tweets in his own capacity on X and BlueSky as @gentlemedic.

23 min
06/12/2025

Minna Johansson | Seeing Things Differently

Minna Johansson is a general practitioner working clinically at Herrestads healthcare centre a healthcare centre in Uddevalla, a small town on the Swedish west coast. She is an Associate Professor at Gothenburg University, director of Cochrane Sustainable Healthcare.She is the lead investigator of the Global Center for Sustainable Healthcare, focused on finding novel ways to make healthcare more sustainable for patients, clinicians, health systems, societies, and for our planet. Minna feels just as passionate about her clinical work as she does about her research. “My goal is to contribute to a more sustainable healthcare through research inspired by the problems me and my patients face in clinical practice.”Her PhD in 2018 was titled "Evaluating benefits and harms of screening - the streetlight effect?". Her research interests include methodological aspects of evaluating benefits and harms of screening when up-to-date data from randomized trials is lacking, informed choice/shared decision making, overdiagnosis/medicalization and how values and context can be integrated in evidence-based medicine.

24 min
02/12/2025

MaryAnn Ferreux | Leading with Purpose

MaryAnn Ferreux is the Chief Medical Officer for Health Innovation Kent Surrey Sussex and a Non-Executive Director for Kent and Medway NHS Partnership Trust.She has 20 years clinical experience working across both the Australian and UK health system, with specialist qualifications in health system leadership, management, and population health. She has held Board level roles as a medical leader in both primary and secondary care and is passionate about using digital and innovation to improve the patient experience for underserved communities, deliver better integration, and ensure equitable access to care. She is a thought leader for health equity in innovation and is leading on several projects to explore gender and racial bias in AI, debias policymaking and increase women in leadership for digital and technology. She has a special interest in researching health equity and the impact of the social determinants of health. She is leading several initiatives to promote equity, diversity and inclusion in medicine and is a Trustee and Chair of the Royal College of Physicians (Edinburgh) EDI Committee.

29 min

MedicsVoices is an international multimedia platform where we interview key opinion leaders in health and medicine around the world. The aim is to create dialogue, discussion, and debate with particular insight into issues of interest to all those involved in health care from the individual patient consultation to global health

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Domhnall MacAuley
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