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Ideas matter - but ideas alone don't change the world.

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Throughout my career, I have been interested in a simple question:

What would healthcare look like if we started again?

Not by abandoning what works, but by having the courage to rethink what no longer does.

Much of my work begins with critique. I write and speak about the limitations of modern healthcare systems, the realities of inequality, and the challenges facing children, families and professionals.

But critique is only half the job.

The other half is building.

Building new relationships.

Building new ways of learning.

Building new ways of listening.

Building new possibilities for health.


The projects below are practical attempts to radically reimagine health from the ground up. Each explores a different piece of the puzzle. Together, they form a vision for what healthcare could become.

  • Dance on the Wards

    Reimagining Care Through Creativity

    What if creativity wasn't an optional extra in healthcare? What if it was part of the medicine?

    Dance on the Wards began with a simple observation: when people move together, relationships change.

    Children smile. Parents relax. Staff reconnect with one another. Hierarchies soften.

    The ward becomes more human.

    This work explores how creativity can support wellbeing, connection, belonging and healing—not as decoration, but as essential infrastructure for health.

    Because before people can thrive, they need spaces that recognise their humanity.


  • WHAM

    Reimagining Professionalism

    Healthcare professionals enter medicine to help people.

    Too often, the systems they work within make that harder than it should be.

    WHAM (Wellbeing and Health Action Movement) was created to bridge the gap between what clinicians know about health inequalities and what they feel empowered to do about them.

    Today, WHAM is a growing national community supporting professionals to address the social determinants of health through education, action and collective learning.

    Our ambition is simple: To help create a generation of health professionals equipped not only to treat illness, but to tackle its causes.


  • Powering Up

    Reimagining Participation

    Health systems are full of conversations about patients.

    Far fewer happen with them.

    Powering Up explores what happens when young people move from being recipients of healthcare to co-designers of it.

    Working through creativity, citizen science and storytelling, we bring together young people, clinicians and communities to redesign systems from the ground up.

    The project has already gained national recognition as a finalist in the HSJ Patient Safety Awards in 2024 and demonstrated the extraordinary insight, energy and leadership that emerge when power is genuinely shared.

    Because the people closest to a problem are often closest to the solution.


  • Moonshot

    Reimagining the Future of Children’s Health

    Moonshot is a national effort to put children back at the centre of how we think about health, society and the future.

    England is facing a quiet crisis in child health and wellbeing. We know much of what children need to flourish, but services remain fragmented and responsibility is scattered across health, education, local government and civil society.

    Moonshot is designed to close that gap.

    It brings together public storytelling, local experimentation, participation and disciplined learning to ask what it would really take for every child to grow up with the foundations for a good life.

    The work is practical. We will identify and learn from places already trying to make that vision real: what helps, what gets in the way, what needs to change, and what becomes possible when local systems align around children’s lives.

    Moonshot is now moving from vision to launch.

    We are actively looking for the right partners to help get it off the ground: funders, foundations, health and education leaders, local areas ready to test new ways of working, media collaborators, researchers, creatives and people who believe children should be at the centre of our national story.

    If that sounds like you, or someone you know, I would love to talk.

    Help Build Moonshot

Let's Build What's Next

The challenges facing health today are too large for any one discipline, organisation or sector to solve alone.

I am always interested in conversations with funders, philanthropists, health leaders, universities, cultural organisations, policymakers, broadcasters and ambitious collaborators who share a commitment to creating healthier futures.

If you're interested in supporting, scaling or partnering on this work, I'd love to hear from you.

Areas of Collaboration

• Strategic partnerships

• Philanthropy and funding

• Research collaborations

• Health system innovation

• Creative health initiatives

• Speaking and advisory work

• National programmes and policy development

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