Inspired To Soar

09/09/2026

09/09/2026

Today’s the day! 🎉💙

Seen. Heard. Valued. Turning Voices into Change goes live later today, bringing together NHS leaders, policymakers, community leaders, clinicians, researchers and industry partners to look properly at what’s in the report, and more importantly, what we do with it.

If you haven’t registered yet, there’s still time, link is in the flyer and in the comments.

If you have registered, I’ll see you there. Bring your questions. This is a space for genuine exchange, not a broadcast.

Turning voices into change starts today. 💙

08/09/2026

Tomorrow, we turn voices into change. 🎙️⏰

Tomorrow morning, I’m bringing the findings and recommendations from the Seen. Heard. Valued. report into the open, alongside practical ways to act on them, and a live space for your questions.

If you lead in the NHS, in policy, in a community organisation, in research, in pharma or medtech, or in a third sector health body, this one’s built for you.

In this video, a quick walk-through of exactly what to expect tomorrow, so you know whether it’s the right room for you (spoiler: if you’ve read this far in this series, it probably is).
Last chance to register, link in the comments.

See you tomorrow. 💙

HealthcareLeadership

04/09/2026

A question I get asked a lot: “okay, we agree with all of this, what does actually working with you look like?” 🤝💬

It doesn’t start with a lengthy strategy document nobody reads. It starts with listening properly to what’s already happening in your organisation, identifying where the biggest trust gaps are with the communities you serve, and agreeing a small number of achievable, evidenced actions to start with.

Then we stay in it with you. Reviewing what’s working, adjusting what isn’t, and helping you build the internal capability to keep going without needing us in the room forever.

If you’re a healthcare organisation, pharma or medtech company, or third sector body wondering how to turn the Seen. Heard. Valued. recommendations, or your own equity commitments, into something real, this is exactly the conversation to have on 9th September. Link in the comment.

02/09/2026

A belief that sits at the centre of everything I do: small, sustained steps beat grand promises almost every time. 🌱💪

I’ve watched plenty of organisations launch a bold equity strategy with real energy behind it, then quietly let it fade by the next budget cycle because the ambition was bigger than the plan for actually delivering it.

What tends to work instead is less dramatic. One concrete action. Reviewed. Adjusted. Repeated. Then the next one added on top. Over a year, those small steps compound into something a grand launch rarely does: durable, trusted change.

If your organisation has a strategy sitting in a drawer somewhere, this webinar on 9th September might be a good place to talk about what turning it into action actually looks like. Link in the comment. ✅

01/09/2026

Let's talk numbers. 📊

Across the UK, people from ethnic minority backgrounds make up 17% of the population, that's over 11 million people.

In Wales, we're 6.2%, that's 193,000 people. When our views barely registered in the first Wales Cancer Patient Experience Survey, I couldn't let that slide.

That, and my own lived experience, is what led me to organise and host the Seen. Heard. Valued. event, and publish the report that followed.
But voices only matter if they lead to change. That's why I'm hosting a webinar on 9th September to talk about what it will actually take to make that happen. 🎥

Watch the video, then register to join us.
Know someone who needs to be in the room? Please share this with them.

👇 Link to register is in the comments.

28/08/2026

Cancer Research UK estimates that around 1 in 2 people born after 1960 in the UK will be diagnosed with cancer at some point in their life. 📊

Sit with that for a second. ⏸️ That’s not a rare event happening to someone else. That’s most of the people reading this post, most of the people in your organisation, most of the people your service exists to care for.

Given that scale, tackling racial disparities in cancer care and outcomes isn’t a “nice-to-have” line on a diversity action plan. It’s a core test of whether a health system is genuinely fit for purpose, and whether it’s robust enough to cope as cancer incidence continues to rise across the UK.

This is precisely the “all hands on deck” conversation we’re having on 9th September, statutory and non-statutory sectors, and communities themselves, in the same room. Flyer attached for the details. 🧡

26/08/2026

Why does a health equity consultant end up building an entire event, and now a report, around cancer care specifically? 🎙️

Because for me, it started at home, long before it became my career. 🏡💙

In this video, I’m sharing a bit more about the personal side of this work, and why I believe so strongly that tackling racial disparities in cancer care isn’t a nice-to-have for any organisation’s diversity calendar. It’s core to whether our health system is actually fit for the population it serves.

Full story in the video. Come and be part of the conversation on 9th September, link and in the comments. 👇

24/08/2026

Something I don’t always lead with: I have a family history of breast cancer. 🎗️ So this work has never been purely professional for me. 💙

Cancer Research UK puts the lifetime risk of a cancer diagnosis at roughly 1 in 2 for anyone born after 1960. That risk doesn’t check anyone’s ethnicity before it arrives.

But what happens after diagnosis, how early it’s caught, how well someone’s pain and symptoms are believed, whether the treatment options in front of them were tested on people who look like them, that part absolutely is shaped by race. And that’s the part we can actually change.

I’ll say more about what brought me to this work in a video later this week. For now, if this resonates, I’d love to see you at the webinar on 9th September. Flyer below. 🎗️