New podcast: The Courage to be Kind, with Dr Elizabeth Kelly and Pennie Taylor

Carnegie UK Trust has a new podcast, The Courage to be Kind. The podcast features Carnegie Associate, Dr Elizabeth Kelly, in conversation with health journalist, Pennie Taylor, discussing the Trust’s learning about kindness in health and social care in Scotland over the past 12 months.

At the end of last year we published a report that reflected on the role of kindness in the healthcare response to COVID-19. Since then, there has been a growing conversation about the importance of kindness – for staff as well as patient wellbeing – and yet at the same time, concern that this might be lost amidst increasing pressure to remobilise and ‘get back to normal’.

In this new podcast, which is also hosted on the Scottish Government’s National Wellbeing Hub, Elizabeth and Pennie explore the role of kindness in care settings from a range of angles across six short episodes. As well as looking at it from the perspective of staff wellbeing, and sharing practical tools and resources, the conversation also explores the transformational potential of kindness, with challenging messages for the way that we now manage the recovery and renewal of our health service.

All six episodes are now available