Clinical Lead for Quality ImprovemenT & Community Engagement, TYNEHEALTH GP Federation
February 2019 - September 2022
Primary Care Quality Improvement (QI): Clinical Audit and Governance work, Service Design and Improvement, Project Leadership, Clinical Lead for TyneHealth’s Vaccine Helpline.
Communications Co-ordination and Community Engagement: Social Media strategy, website design and on-line content writer, editor, and internal / external communications manager. Co-lead of North Tyneside Comms Collaboration (cross-sector working group.)
Service Design, Innovation and Collaboration: Partner of Living Well North Tyneside, a cross-sector collaboration (NHS Healthcare and Social Care, Local Authority, Public Health, Voluntary and Community Sectors.) On-line service directory and website launch 2021, patient centred service design (UX research) and development, digital transformation, innovation and inclusion (DFPC), staff wellbeing and training.
resident artist (writer): Djerassi ‘Scientific delirium madness’
June - July 2018
Leonardo / The International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology (ISAST) and the Djerassi Resident Artists Program (DRAP) collaborate on the annual Scientific Delirium Madness residency that brings together artists and scientists for a month-long retreat.
Creative Writing Output: ‘Where The Fog Has No Name’ poetry, essays and short stories related to residency. Ongoing collaboration with resident scientists and artists. Essays published on LEONARDO blog.
Public Speaking: poetry reading and presentation focused on public engagement in arts/health discourse: PACE Gallery, Palo Alto July 2018.
Poetry Installations: production of two site specific poetry sculptures, installed on the Djerassi ranch.
DIRECTOR OF MiLAN Collective (Medicine in literature and the arts at Newcastle)
September 2014 - OCtober 2018
A collective of Newcastle University staff, students and affiliated individuals that sought to champion the role of the Arts and Humanities in Medical Education and Healthcare (www.MiLANcollective.uk website now archived as funding ended during the Covid-19 pandemic.)
Film Festivals & associated interdisciplinary panel discussions: three annual week-long film festivals hosted at Newcastle University (2015 - 2017) and four ‘SciScreen’ events organised with Tyneside Cinema involving institutes and schools across Newcastle University, alongside arts and health community partners.
2020 Film Screenings Paused During COVID-19.
MiLAN Book Group: monthly meeting and discussion following the Wellcome Book Prize Longlist: a prize open to new works of fiction or non-fiction with a central theme that engages with some aspect of medicine, health or illness.
Group now on-line (Zoom): run by Mariana Mouzinho for @MiLANCollective