Prevention is the New Cure

Steve Brine and guests

Former Health Minister, Steve Brine, and guests cover the very latest in health and politics. New line-up coming soon. Twitter: @PreventionPodc Email: podcast@stevebrine.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  1. 17h ago

    120. NHS Online prepares for take off

    What if the hospital of the future isn't actually a hospital at all? The NHS is creating something called NHS Online. A new national health service provider, with its own chief executive, its own board, and an ambition to deliver millions of specialist appointments without patients necessarily setting foot in a hospital. It's an intriguing proposition. But it also raises some pretty fundamental questions and Steve's guest this week is the person charged with making it happen, Dame Caroline Clarke. Steve and Caroline discuss whether NHS Online genuinely transform how the NHS delivers care — or is it simply creating another organisation to do what the existing NHS should already be doing? And will success mean NHS Online has become one of the biggest providers in the country, or that the rest of the NHS has caught up and we no longer need a separate organisation? Plus, the NHS already has serious workforce pressures as hospitals are struggling to staff existing services. So where exactly is NHS Online going to find the clinicians to staff a whole new national provider? Oh and the pair compare their dogs recent visits to the vet - and what NHS Online can learn from veterinary medicine! NHS Online Trust You can get in touch with this podcast via podcast@stevebrine.com or on all our socials, including X and LinkedIn. This episode is produced by Brine Health Ltd and is part of the Acast network. Email: podcast@stevebrine.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    120. NHS Online prepares for take off
  2. Sep 25

    115. MHRA chief Lawrence Tallon

    For the next of our BIG Autumn interview specials, former Minister Steve Brine speaks with Lawrence Tallon who heads up the powerful MHRA. They start by discussing what the regulator is for and Steve asks whether there is an inherent tension between being faster and being safer — or is that actually the wrong way of thinking about modern regulation? They get into rare diseases where the MHRA’s proposed framework recognises that conventional development models designed for large populations don’t necessarily work when patient numbers are small. And the pair discuss whether Britain losing clinical trials overseas is yesterday's story or still the case today. Steve and Lawrence also take a deep dive into AI (or SI as President Trump calls it) following the National Commission’s report on AI in healthcare. The MHRA–NICE aligned pathway comes into the discussion; there’s little point having the fastest regulator in the world if an innovation then spends months waiting somewhere else in the system. They discuss this and, of course, if we really are moving towards a health system built around prediction, prevention and earlier intervention, Steve wants to know what the regulator of the future needs to become. Oh and they share the misery of being fellow Spurs and it turns out, through Lawrences' work as Founding President with NHS Spurs, there's even a silver lining to that! You can visit the MHRA here. You can get in touch with this podcast via podcast@stevebrine.com or on all our socials, including X and LinkedIn. This episode is produced by Brine Health Ltd. Email: podcast@stevebrine.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    115. MHRA chief Lawrence Tallon

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Former Health Minister, Steve Brine, and guests cover the very latest in health and politics. New line-up coming soon. Twitter: @PreventionPodc Email: podcast@stevebrine.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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