Excellence in Practice: Voices for Better Care
Excellence in Practice: Voices for Better Care
Podcast Description
At the National Centre of Excellence in Intellectual Disability Health (the Centre), we are working to make health care better for people with intellectual disability. People with intellectual disability often face different health challenges, but too often, they don’t get the care they deserve. This podcast is for healthcare professionals who want to improve their practice when working with people with intellectual disability. In each episode, hosts Ricky Kremer and Raylene Griffiths speak with experts, healthcare professionals, and people with lived experience. They share real stories and practical advice to help you build your skills and confidence. Each episode explores a key topic in health care, showing what good care looks like—and what still needs to change. Better care starts with better understanding. By combining lived experience with expert insight, this podcast supports you to deliver more inclusive, respectful, and effective care. If you want to give better care, and help make health care fairer for everyone—this podcast is for you. Follow the podcast to join us as we work together to improve health care for people with intellectual disability.
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Content Themes
The podcast focuses on improving healthcare for people with intellectual disabilities, with themes including bias in healthcare, inclusive care practices, and real-life stories from healthcare professionals and families affected by these issues. Episodes explore topics like Challenging Bias in Health Care and offer practical advice on delivering better care.
At the National Centre of Excellence in Intellectual Disability Health (the Centre), we are working to make health care better for people with intellectual disability.
People with intellectual disability often face different health challenges, but too often, they don’t get the care they deserve.
This podcast is for healthcare professionals who want to improve their practice when working with people with intellectual disability.
In each episode, hosts Ricky Kremer and Raylene Griffiths speak with experts, healthcare professionals, and people with lived experience. They share real stories and practical advice to help you build your skills and confidence.
Each episode explores a key topic in health care, showing what good care looks like—and what still needs to change.
Better care starts with better understanding. By combining lived experience with expert insight, this podcast supports you to deliver more inclusive, respectful, and effective care.
If you want to give better care, and help make health care fairer for everyone—this podcast is for you.
Follow the podcast to join us as we work together to improve health care for people with intellectual disability.
People with intellectual disability experience the same mental health needs as anyone else. Unfortunately, they often face more barriers when it comes to identifying that there is a problem, getting support, and accessing effective treatment.
In this episode, we spoke to Rebecca Koncz, the UNSW Chair of Intellectual Disability Mental Health within the National Centre of Excellence in Intellectual Disability Health (the Centre). She is also an experienced clinician and researcher with a focus on Mental Health.
We also spoke to Rory Keyes, a self-advocate, Researcher and Project Worker at the Centre, who shared their lived experience accessing mental health care.
Content Warning: This episode contains stories about mental health care, including mentions of trauma, medical mistreatment, or discrimination and could be distressing for some listeners.
If you are uncomfortable, please take a break or skip this episode.
If you’ve been affected by anything discussed in this episode, please know you're not alone. Support is available.
If you’re in crisis or need someone to talk to, you can contact Lifeline at 13 11 14 in Australia.
Excellence in Practice: Voices for Better Care is a podcast by the National Centre of Excellence in Intellectual Disability Health (the Centre).
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Your hosts for this episode are Ricky Kremer and Raylene Griffiths.
This podcast includes artwork by Emily Crockford at Studio A.
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The Excellence in Practice: Voices for Better Care Podcast is intended for healthcare professionals, and the comments are of a general nature. The views, information or opinions expressed by individuals in these podcast episodes are their own and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Centre.
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