Welcome to our Building Belonging Discovery Week. A week of live, EDI-themed virtual lunch and learn sessions dedicated to building awareness of how equality, diversity and inclusion can shape patient care and staff experiences, and inspire meaningful changes that create workplace cultures where everyone can thrive. We’ll also be highlighting additional learning and resources available on our website, so there are plenty of opportunities to broaden your perspective and continue your learning journey at your own pace.

Patient Voices: Real Stories, Real Impact

An opportunity to listen, reflect, and learn from diverse patient experiences, helping us better understand the needs of the communities we serve.

Speakers

Florence Otule

Patient and Social Worker

Florence is an African Christian, wife, mother of three and a Social Worker who has lived in the UK for over 20 years. As a service user herself, she brings personal lived experience, alongside the experiences of her family in accessing and receiving healthcare services. This combined with her professional background in Social Work gives her a unique perspective on the healthcare system. She is passionate about using this experience to contribute to meaningful conversations about the quality, accessibility and delivery of care, and to ensure that the voices and experiences of service users are heard and valued.

Lee Brown

Patient and Gender Identity Practitioner

Lee (he/him) is a Gender Identity Practitioner, working in the charity sector. He has a professional background of working in equality, diversity and inclusion, specifically within the NHS. Lee’s specialities naturally come from the intersections of his lived experience; he’s queer, neurodiverse and a transgender man. This mixture of personal and professional expertise has led to various speaking engagements and webinars with organisations all over the world, with Lee’s hope to educate and generate awareness and action through real life experiences.

Booking

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The full series of sessions in the EDI Discovery Week is shown below. Click on the + to read the overview.

Please click here to search our events calendar for those sessions that are currently open for booking.

All sessions are 12:30-13:30 unless otherwise stated.

In the opening session of our new EDI&B Discovery Week, Dr Annete Moyo and Dr Jessica Randall-Carrick will explore the core principles of EDI&B and their relevance to NHS General Practice as well as the regional picture.

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An opportunity to listen, reflect, and learn from diverse patient experiences, helping us better understand the needs of the communities we serve, with Florence Otule and Lee Brown.

Learning from the lived experiences of Cambridgeshire & Peterborough GPs Dr Camilla Tilbury and Dr Neda Barzegar-Befroi to build belonging, inclusion, and a stronger workplace culture.

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Join Mary Lavender, Specialist Speech and Language Therapist, to explore how digital tools and innovations can help overcome barriers, enhance communication, support diverse communities, and create environments where both staff and patients can thrive.

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As we bring together the learning from this week, this engaging session with Danny Karystinos will explore examples of inclusive recruitment and reasonable adjustments, providing an opportunity to identify simple actions to support EDI in Primary Care.

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