Hannah Barham-Brown

In this episode, Martin speaks to Hannah Barham-Brown, a GP trainee who is an activist, campaigner and advocate around gender, disability and LGBTQ+ issues, a former Deputy Leader of the Women’s Equality Party, and one of the Shaw Trust’s 100 most influential disabled people in the UK. She speaks to Martin about the role of doctors in politics, being a ‘roll model’, how to have awkward conversations, and why everyone should pay attention to the bins in NHS bathrooms.

Episode transcript available at bma.org.uk/inspiringdoctors

Content warning: use of a disability-related slur in the context of a discussion on appropriate language. To avoid it skip from 43’09 to 43’47.

The organisations mentioned as resources for doctors learning about disability and LGBTQ+ health inequalities are Scope, Leonard Cheshire, GLADD (The Association of LGBTQ+ Doctors and Dentists), the LGBT Foundation, and the RCGP's LGBT Health Hub.

You can also find a list of EDI book recommendations on Hannah's website hannahbarhambrown.com/

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