Its been a busy couple of months; Narrating Max Richter’s Blue Notebooks on tour in Athens at the spectacular Odeon of Herodes Atticus ampitheatre on the acropolis Athens has been a career highlight. Changemakers in Health – our short film for the World Health Organisation has now been released (see below). And I was delighted to work on a project for CHIVA (Childrens HIV charity) working with young people to create a musical performance telling their stories of lived experiences of growing up with HIV.

Life Growing Up – our spoken work storytelling piece telling the stories of young people in the UK growing up with HIV – was performed to MPs, researchers, activists and invited audience to celebrate the launch of a brilliant educational toolkit developed by young people at CHIVA (Children’s HIV Charity UK) as part of an initiative to end HIV stigma.

This 15 minute storytelling film weaves together stories from individuals and groups in health intentionally leading change. It reveals some of the many ways that these changemakers have managed to significantly impact their health care environments and improve health outcomes, often through relatively small, local interventions. From improving patient safety and reducing patient harm, to promoting community health and introducing compassion in health leadership – these stories offer insights into how change can be ignited from the inside out, by anyone at any level of a health system. Policy makers, funders and researchers must connect head and heart and invest in solutions developed by people and for people. This article explains it in more detail.