Conversation with the NHS podcasts

Members of the Invictus network share stories from military life to support our friends in the NHS with processing challenging experiences from the COVID-19 pandemic.

Topics include:
Reconnecting with family
Moral injury
The role sport has in recovery

Produced by the Declassified Network, created by the Invictus Games Foundation and commissioned by NHS England and NHS Improvement.

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Fostering ‘Response-ability’

Maintaining Resilience and Wellbeing in the face of a public health crisis: Fostering ‘Response-ability’ by remembering that we are capable of choosing our response to challenging situations.

This is based on Epictetus’ understanding that ‘People are disturbed not by things but by the view they take of them.’ Hence, the key to emotional intelligence and wellbeing is not to avoid challenging situations; but rather to choose an effective attitude towards them.

Read more on our Ideas Hub.

I thought this sounded like a really interesting and innovative use of social prescribing:

Accelerate and Elemental bring social prescribing to thousands of chronic wound patients in London.

London-based Accelerate has partnered with Elemental Software to offer social prescribing services to thousands of patients with chronic wound and Lymphedema care needs whose long-term conditions impact their daily lives.

City and Hackney CCG will be the first location for this service and will serve as a pilot, with plans for the further roll out of the Elemental platform by Accelerate across other areas this year. More than 200 patients at City and Hackney CCG will be involved.