NHS communicators: In the eye of the storm

Season 2, Episode 8,   Oct 21, 2020, 04:27 PM

On this panel, we welcomed our communications network chair Ross Wigham, also deputy director of communications at Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, as chair of the panel. The panel includes Michael Carden, head of media and corporate communications at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, Emma Casteleijn, director of communications and engagement at University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, Julie Treharne head of communications and engagement of North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust, and Dan Charlton, director of communications at Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. They cover the challenges and achievements of communications and provide invaluable advice for teams approaching this next phase of COVID-19.

Our second episode of our podcast season looking back on our virtual Annual Conference and Exhibition 2020. The pandemic has presented extraordinary challenges for people working in trust communications. In this session, we reflected on some of those high-profile situations and the key role communications has in shaping and delivering a response.