Let’s Talk Health and Care
Let’s Talk Health and Care
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This podcast series is linked to the Integrated Care Academy at UWE Bristol and covers various topics associated with workforce development, applied research with impact, health technology and positive societal change. Building relationships and being an interface between people, technology, education, research, culture and health care are core elements of the Integrated Care Academy at UWE Bristol.
http://uwe.ac.uk/integrated-care-academy
Contact us: [email protected]
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The podcast centers on workforce development, health technology, and societal impact, with episodes exploring topics like community-based solutions for continence issues, the revolutionary potential of 3D-printed food for dysphagia, and addressing health inequalities in ethnic minority communities. For instance, an episode discusses the adverse effects of ketamine on bladder health in the context of Covid-19, demonstrating practical implications of research.
This podcast series is linked to the Integrated Care Academy at UWE Bristol and covers various topics associated with workforce development, applied research with impact, health technology and positive societal change. Building relationships and being an interface between people, technology, education, research, culture and health care are core elements of the Integrated Care Academy at UWE Bristol.
http://uwe.ac.uk/integrated-care-academy
Contact us: [email protected]
In this episode of Let’s Talk Health and Care, Marc Griffiths and Peter Briddle explore the hidden complexities of the blood supply chain and the radical innovations that could transform it.
Our guests in this episode, Professor Wendy Phillips, Dean for Research and Enterprise, and Dr Helen Sanderson, Senior Research Fellow, both from the College of Business and Law at UWE Bristol, share insights drawn from a decade of pioneering research into redistributed manufacturing and next‑generation blood products.
Together, they discuss:
- Why the blood supply chain is far more vulnerable and complex than most people realise
- Their work to address battlefield blood supply challenges
- Emerging innovations including walk‑in blood banks, freeze‑dried plasma, and lab‑grown red blood cells
- Ethical and cultural questions around artificial versus donated blood
- How military‑driven innovation could strengthen resilience across the NHS and civilian healthcare
- What the next 5–10 years could look like as technology reshapes how and where we manufacture blood
This episode offers a fascinating look at the future of life‑saving care, from regulation to innovation pipelines to the possibility of “better‑than‑natural” blood.
The Redistributed Manufacturing in Healthcare Network: www.RiHN.org.uk
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