Welcome to our podcast 'Hope in the Deep End', brought to you by the Shared Health Foundation.

In this podcast series we are exploring all the different complexities of working in areas of deprivation, poverty and entrenched health inequalities. From clinicians to youth workers, we want to inspire, challenge and give inspiration to all those that work in the deep end.

This episode was recorded as part of Shared Health’s annual Doctors in Deprivation Training Day - a day of learning, inspiration and encouragement for GPs and clinical leads working in the Deep End of medicine. If you’re interested in attending our next training day, visit our website.

Andrea Williamson is a GP and Professor of General Practice and Inclusion Health, combining teaching, research and clinical practice.

She teaches and trains about the social determinants of health, Inclusion Health practice and trauma-informed care. She leads on research about "missingness" in healthcare, which she talks about in today’s episode, and is involved in wider research and policy work to improve care for people experiencing severe and multiple disadvantage.

Her policy work includes being a founding member of GPs at the Deep End, and a deputy chair of the Health Equity Special Interest Group at the Royal College of General Practitioners. Andrea is also on the Scottish Government National Suicide Prevention Advisory Group, and was the Primary Care member of the NICE Guideline Committee for integrated health and social care for people experiencing homelessness.

Further information about the research, 'Developing interventions to reduce "missingness" in healthcare': https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/healthwellbeing/research/generalpractice/research/missingnessinterventions/

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