Open POD pod

Fiona Eastmond
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Explaining what Peer Supported Open Dialogue actually entails can be challenging. Talking about talking in order to explain the content of a network meeting is like trying to hold smoke, as Amanda puts it. In this series we hope to record conversations that are dialogical and form a dialogue, with insights from creators, practitioners and teachers of Open Dialogue. We would love it if we could form a dialogue with you. We would like to quite literally demystify what Open Dialogue is all about by having a dialogue about it. 

  1. 1d ago

    4.2 Russell Razzaque on ODESSI -  "Open Dialogue saves the NHS a huge amount of money"

    Send us Fan Mail It's finally here. The results of the ODDESSI trial. In this episode of OpenPODpod, Fiona listens once again to Russell Razzaque, the Clinical Lead of the NIHR funded ODDESSI trial, which stands for "Open Dialogue: Development and Evaluation of a Social Network Intervention for Severe Mental Illness". Russell worked alongside Professor Steve Pilling who was the Chief Investigator. The trial was a large, multi-centre Cluster Randomised Controlled trial that ran from 2017 to 2025 studying the implementation of Open Dialogue in six pilot sites across five NHS Trusts. Outcomes measured were very much aligned with major national NHS priorities:     Moving care from hospital to community    Improving long-term outcomes    Improving preventative careAs Russell said in a June 2026 blog post "If the Finnish results, particularly the improved patient recovery and reduction of service burden and cost, are replicated by ODDESSI, then it will be a landmark finding, and could potentially lead to an implementation programme that accelerates the transformation of mental healthcare towards a model that is more relational, achieves better recovery, better patient experience and is far more cost effective."(edited from www.bacp.co.uk) Peer workers up and down the UK are incredibly excited to hear this episode and read the ODDESSI paper which is being published in The Lancet Psychiatry on August 27th 2026.  POD at Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust Fiona Eastmond | LinkedIn

  2. 4d ago

    4.1 ODDESSI - it's almost time for publication

    Send us Fan Mail Welcome back to Season 4 of OpenPODpod. A very short teaser of the upcoming ODDESSI reveal part one. Russell and Fiona spoke a while ago and now we are nearly there. Watch this space! Next episode 27th August 2026.  POD at Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust Fiona Eastmond | LinkedIn

  3. Feb 5

    3.10 Live special from CNWL November POD conference 2025

    Send us Fan Mail Guests live on stage talking about POD. Live special from CNWL November POD conference 2025. POD at Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust Fiona Eastmond | LinkedIn

  4. 10/09/2025

    3.9 Keith Bryant -  if we eat the elephant slowly, we're going to get there

    Send us Fan Mail Keith Bryant, CEO of the Open Dialogue Centre came all the way from Australia to see what CNWL are doing with Peer Open Dialogue in their Westminster pilot. It was really good to meet him. In this episode, Keith reflects with Gareth Jarvis and Fiona Eastmond about all things Peer Open Dialogue in Westminster. POD at Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust Fiona Eastmond | LinkedIn

  5. 09/04/2025

    3.8 Russell Razzaque - Why don't we try something different?

    Send us Fan Mail Fiona talks to Russell about what his journey with Peer Informed Open Dialogue has been like ahead of the long-awaited publication of the results of the ODESSI trial. POD at Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust Fiona Eastmond | LinkedIn

  6. 07/25/2025

    3.7 Lauren Markham: Unlearning Systems

    Send us Fan Mail In episode 7 of Season 3 of OpenPODpod we hear Lauren, Advanced Lived Experience Practitioner at CNWL, telling us how learning about Open Dialogue led her to peer working. Along the way we reminisce about chocolate factories, the first ever POD cohort, and Lauren’s experiences as a healthcare support worker-turned-peer. As we reflect, we look through different lenses to learn about the unique value of peer working in Open Dialogue – the P in the POD. POD at Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust Fiona Eastmond | LinkedIn

  7. 05/09/2025

    3.6 Mia Kurtti - it took 15 years

    Send us Fan Mail In this episode Gareth and Fiona are joined by Mia Kurtti, who has been working at the heart of what we now call Open Dialogue as it developed in Finland. We ask for her reflections on how this way of working came about and how something that originated in rural Finland can be translated to British shores and embedded into the NHS with our diverse urban populations. POD at Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust Fiona Eastmond | LinkedIn

  8. 02/10/2025

    3.5 It just feels so safe

    Send us Fan Mail In a first for the podcast, Fiona interviews someone who is receiving Open Dialogue in the form of network meetings. Our guest's experience is moving, touching and real, and they have asked to remain anonymous. This episode has been completely co-produced: our guest edited the whole thing with Fiona, going through every word until we were both completely comfortable and happy with it. We are very proud of this episode and hope that it will be the first of many.   POD at Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust Fiona Eastmond | LinkedIn

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Explaining what Peer Supported Open Dialogue actually entails can be challenging. Talking about talking in order to explain the content of a network meeting is like trying to hold smoke, as Amanda puts it. In this series we hope to record conversations that are dialogical and form a dialogue, with insights from creators, practitioners and teachers of Open Dialogue. We would love it if we could form a dialogue with you. We would like to quite literally demystify what Open Dialogue is all about by having a dialogue about it. 

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  • Creator
    Fiona Eastmond
  • Years Active
    2023 - 2026
  • Episodes
    27
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2026 Open POD pod
  • Show Website
    Open POD pod

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