EP 112: Designing Careful and Kind Care | Dominique Allwood

Design Lab with Bon Ku

How can revolt against industrialized healthcare? Can we design careful and kind care?

Dr. Dominique Allwood is a healthcare leader with almost 20 years of experience working as a medical doctor and public health physician in healthcare in the UK. She enjoys variety and juggling multiple roles and is currently Chief Medical Officer of UCLPartners, a health innovation partnership across a population of 5.2 million people, and Director of Population Health at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, at a large teaching hospital in London. She is interested in a range of areas including improving equity, population health, anchor institutions, accelerating net zero in healthcare, clinical engagement, and quality improvement. She has worked extensively across healthcare in delivery, leadership, management and advisory roles for provider and commissioner organisations, academic institutions, national policy bodies, management consultancy, charities and think tanks. She holds an MPH, has previously undertaken a Darzi Fellowship in Clinical Leadership, and is an Associate Editor for BMJ Leader Journal. She is a Governor of University College Hospital and a Board member of The

Patient Revolution in the US. She was previously named a Rising Star in the Health Services Journal and shortlisted for a prestigious national mentoring award. She is currently completing an MBA at Henley Business School.

Episode mentions and links:

Careful, kind care is our compass out of the pandemic fog

Taking one step further: five equity principles for hospitals to increase their value as anchor institutions

Restaurant Dominique would take you to: Lefteris O Politis

Bonus: This is Athens: A beginners guide to souvlaki

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Episode Website: https://www.designlabpod.com/episodes/112