S13: Workforce, wellbeing and engaging staff across the organisation and culture

Wednesday 1 Nov | 10:00-11:00

 

Part 1: Kindness in action

Facilitated by: Lucy Mayes, Hush Foundation and the Gathering of Kindness; Australia

Host, Lucy Mayes (Engagement Manager, Hush Foundation, and author ‘Beyond the Stethoscope: Doctor’s Stories of Reclaiming hope, heart and healing in medicine’) speaks with our panel as they share stories of kindness in action. The panel, representing international healthcare leaders, change agents doctors and consumer advocates will consider whether kindness have a reputation problem, what does structural kindness looks like and what happens when individuals, teams, organisations and whole sector leadership make the commitment to kindness?

 

Uncle Alan Parsons, Elder, artist, activist and storyteller

Chris Turner, University Hospitals of Coventry and Warwickshire, England

Göran Henriks, Region Jönköping County, Sweden

Catherine Crock, Hush Foundation, Australia