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The Rt Hon Vince Cable MP sets out the Government response to the report.
Launch of the Foresight 'Future of Manufacturing' report at the Royal Academy of Engineering.
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Q+A session.
Launch of the Foresight 'Future of Manufacturing' report at the Royal Academy of Engineering.
For more information, see: bit.ly/FoMn
Keiron Craven Grew as Simon and Karla Crome as Lizzie.
'Breathing Country' was written by Ben Musgrave, directed by Nigel Townsend and designed by Jaimie Todd.
© Robert Workman
EPR: the drama
E Health 19 Oct 2009
Coming out of a West End play with a tear in your eye or a grin on your face isn’t unusual. But Sarah Bruce wasn’t expecting to feel so emotional at the end of a play about the use of electronic patient records in the NHS.
I recently stumbled across the events page of The Royal Academy of Engineering website – and one of the strangest initiatives I’ve yet encountered during my time writing about healthcare IT.
Coming at the end of a Google search related to a news story, I wasn’t expecting to find a listing for a play addressing the issues behind the Electronic Patient Record.
It wasn’t something that E-Health Insider could miss, though. So I headed off to meet one of the organisers, Dr Lesley Pearson, at the Wellcome Trust where the play was being performed for stakeholders for one night only.
Dr Pearson, head of public engagement at The Royal Academy of Engineering, told me that the play, called ‘Breathing Country’, is a £250,000 project that has been touring the country. The script by Ben Musgrove aims to engage teenagers aged 14-18 about EPRs, which are in the process of being rolled-out nationally.
“The whole idea is to raise awareness for young people about electronic patient records and find out from them about their issues and concerns,” he explained. “The London tour of the play has lasted eight weeks, with two performances a day, and has been incredibly successful.”
The storyline
Performed by the Y-Touring group, a branch of the health charity Central YMCA, the play follows the fortunes of a teenage couple, Simon and Lizzie, who are caught up in a world where technology has taken over.
Simon is a technology geek who is forever updating his status on social networking sites, while Lizzie has isolated herself and is secretly struggling with mental health problems following the suicide of her mother.
To avoid the awkward subject of his wife’s death, Lizzie’s father has thrown himself into his job of promoting the EPR, as head of communications at the Department of Health.
Lizzie reacts furiously when she realises that her closely guarded secret is not as safe as she thought when she is asked to take part in an NHS mental health study as a result of her EPR being shared electronically.
But the researcher she confronts is a GP who helps her with her anxiety attacks. And despite having a USB stick with her medical records stolen by Simon, who is desperate to find out what is wrong, Lizzie finally comes to terms with her mother’s death.
The tour, which is funded by the Wellcome Trust, Medical Research Council, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, Central YMCA and the Economic and Social Research Council, is part of a wider drive to get the public actively engaged in the project.
“We assume that young people aren’t bothered by privacy and are all part of a big brother generation when in actual fact they are really impassioned,” Dr Pearson explained.
“Kids want a partnership contract with the NHS. They don’t want to see electronic patient records as signing their life away, but when they are told that in return for their medical records they can help with medical research or receive better care they are much more positive.”
Collecting information for the record
Each performance is followed by a series of debates. At the beginning of the play, the audience is given an electronic voting handset and asked a series of questions designed to gauge their attitudes towards EPRs and sharing information with medical research bodies.
They are also invited to ‘hot seat’ the characters (ask questions of the actors in character). Focus groups are also held and young people are asked to write a review as a critic.
Feedback will be collated and disseminated to policy makers and public health organisations, including the DH, the NHS Research Council and NHS Connecting for Health, at a two day conference in March 2010.
Dr Marlene Winfield, director for patients and public at CfH, who was seeing the play for the second time in as many nights at the Wellcome Trust production, told EHI: “It’s an absolutely brilliant way of getting people involved.
“By the end of the plays, a lot of the children who may have been skeptical at first were saying that they, as teenagers, felt that they had a responsibility to the people that come after them to learn about the records.”
CfH has been an advisor to the play right from the beginning, generating ideas, briefing the cast and the playwright on systems and the risks and benefits they present, and then reading draft scripts and making comments.
“We will be using this, alongside other feedback, to inform policy over time around what sort of choices to offer both teenagers and adults,” Winfield added.
Sex, drugs and EPR
The performances have been so successful that the tour will continue nationally from the beginning of next year, with the intention of reaching between 10,000 and 15,000 young people across the country.
Nigel Townsend, executive director of the Y-Touring theatre group, said: “It’s a rich mix of combination with experts in the area of science and experts in the area of theatre. Plays that tour schools tend to be about sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll this is a very different.”
One of the critic reviews, written by a teenage girl from Sutton Grammar School said: “Before today I probably wouldn’t have even thought about my medical record until I was 18. The whole Breathing Country experience was amazing and really helped me and I am sure plenty of other people will spend more time thinking about the important issue of medical research.”
Pearson added: “They said it couldn’t be done, but we’ve done it. Even I’ll admit that it can sound like a dry subject, but working together we’ve really turned it round and made it into something that everyone can enjoy.”
And when I found myself as part of the standing ovation at the end of the performance, I realised she could be right.
Download and listen to the radio adaptation of 'Breathing Country' at www.theatreofdebate.com
Dr Hamid Mughal of Rolls Royce talks about the central role of technology in manufacturing competitiveness.
Launch of the Foresight 'Future of Manufacturing' report at the Royal Academy of Engineering.
For more information, see: bit.ly/FoMn
Sir John Parker, President of the Royal Academy of Engineering, kicks off the launch event.
Launch of the Foresight 'Future of Manufacturing' report at the Royal Academy of Engineering.
For more information, see: bit.ly/FoMn
Sir Mark Walport introduces the report.
Launch of the Foresight 'Future of Manufacturing' report at the Royal Academy of Engineering.
For more information, see: bit.ly/FoMn
Q+A session.
Launch of the Foresight 'Future of Manufacturing' report at the Royal Academy of Engineering.
For more information, see: bit.ly/FoMn
SMASHfestUK 2017 - Woolwich at General Gordon Square.
SMASHfestUK went on the second leg of our 'Earth and Sky' tour, heading out to General Gordon Square, in the heart of Woolwich. With sponsorship from the Royal Academy of Engineering and the UK Space Agency, and the support of Middlesex University, the University of Greenwich and lots of wonderful local schools, engineers, artists and scientists, volunteers and organisations, we built an outdoor festival with the Survival Village and Space Camp erupting out of the Supervolcano! Thank you to everyone who visited, participated and contributed. It was a blazingly bright, uplifting and AWESOME day!
Photographs by splento.com and Wyn Griffiths
Simon Roberts as Richard, Karla Crome as Lizzie and Keiron Craven Grew as Simon.
Breathing Country, written by Ben Musgrave, directed by Nigel Townsend, design by Jaimie Todd.
Photo © Robert Workman
Download and listen to the radio adaptation of 'Breathing Country' at www.theatreofdebate.com
SMASHfestUK 2017 - Woolwich at General Gordon Square.
SMASHfestUK went on the second leg of our 'Earth and Sky' tour, heading out to General Gordon Square, in the heart of Woolwich. With sponsorship from the Royal Academy of Engineering and the UK Space Agency, and the support of Middlesex University, the University of Greenwich and lots of wonderful local schools, engineers, artists and scientists, volunteers and organisations, we built an outdoor festival with the Survival Village and Space Camp erupting out of the Supervolcano! Thank you to everyone who visited, participated and contributed. It was a blazingly bright, uplifting and AWESOME day!
Photographs by splento.com and Wyn Griffiths
Jonathan Andrews as Richard and Beth Mack as Lizzie.
'Breathing Country' was written by Ben Musgrave, directed by Nigel Townsend and designed by Jaimie Todd.
© Robert Workman
Download and listen to the radio adaptation of 'Breathing Country' at www.theatreofdebate.com
Jonathan Andrews as Richard and Beth Mack as Lizzie.
'Breathing Country' was written by Ben Musgrave, directed by Nigel Townsend and designed by Jaimie Todd.
© Robert Workman
Download and listen to the radio adaptation of 'Breathing Country' at www.theatreofdebate.com
SMASHfestUK 2017 - Woolwich at General Gordon Square.
SMASHfestUK went on the second leg of our 'Earth and Sky' tour, heading out to General Gordon Square, in the heart of Woolwich. With sponsorship from the Royal Academy of Engineering and the UK Space Agency, and the support of Middlesex University, the University of Greenwich and lots of wonderful local schools, engineers, artists and scientists, volunteers and organisations, we built an outdoor festival with the Survival Village and Space Camp erupting out of the Supervolcano! Thank you to everyone who visited, participated and contributed. It was a blazingly bright, uplifting and AWESOME day!
Photographs by splento.com and Wyn Griffiths
SMASHfestUK 2017 - Woolwich at General Gordon Square.
SMASHfestUK went on the second leg of our 'Earth and Sky' tour, heading out to General Gordon Square, in the heart of Woolwich. With sponsorship from the Royal Academy of Engineering and the UK Space Agency, and the support of Middlesex University, the University of Greenwich and lots of wonderful local schools, engineers, artists and scientists, volunteers and organisations, we built an outdoor festival with the Survival Village and Space Camp erupting out of the Supervolcano! Thank you to everyone who visited, participated and contributed. It was a blazingly bright, uplifting and AWESOME day!
Photographs by splento.com and Wyn Griffiths
Jonathan Andrews as Richard.
'Breathing Country' was written by Ben Musgrave, directed by Nigel Townsend and designed by Jaimie Todd.
© Robert Workman
Download and listen to the radio adaptation of 'Breathing Country' at www.theatreofdebate.com
SMASHfestUK 2017 - Woolwich at General Gordon Square.
SMASHfestUK went on the second leg of our 'Earth and Sky' tour, heading out to General Gordon Square, in the heart of Woolwich. With sponsorship from the Royal Academy of Engineering and the UK Space Agency, and the support of Middlesex University, the University of Greenwich and lots of wonderful local schools, engineers, artists and scientists, volunteers and organisations, we built an outdoor festival with the Survival Village and Space Camp erupting out of the Supervolcano! Thank you to everyone who visited, participated and contributed. It was a blazingly bright, uplifting and AWESOME day!
Photographs by splento.com and Wyn Griffiths
Keiron Craven Grew as Simon and Karla Crome as Lizzie.
Breathing Country, written by Ben Musgrave, directed by Nigel Townsend, design by Jaimie Todd.
Photo © Robert Workman
Download and listen to the radio adaptation of 'Breathing Country' at www.theatreofdebate.com
‘Climate Crisis - WILDFIRE!’ Programme co-design & co-production initiative.
A brilliant group of young people from Phoenix Community Housing, Lewisham Youth Theatre, Middlesex University and independent young creatives from Lewisham and Camden have worked with a range of technical experts, engineers, designers, creative technologists, producers, directors, writers and performers as a collaborative group developing the WILDFIRE! LiiVE Adventure for its debut at LYT on April 1st 2023.
The production is underpinned by current #ClimateScience, future wildfire risk crossing into urban areas & practical #FireSafety. We’ve been lucky to have fantastic expert advisors @roddiekeith Area Commander (Ret) @scottishfireandrescueservice Clmate Scientist - Wildfire - Prof Stefan Doerr Swansea University and Urban Water Management Prof Lian Lundy Middlesex University #CoDesign The overall project is a collaboration between Middlesex University MDXPD SMASH_UK (SMASHfestUK) Copper Candle Phoenix Community Housing Lewisham Youth Theatre funded by British Science Association #RoyalAcademyOfEngineering Royal Academy of Engineering with Wyn Griffiths as Project Lead.
Keiron Craven Grew as Simon and Karla Crome as Lizzie.
'Breathing Country' was written by Ben Musgrave, directed by Nigel Townsend and designed by Jaimie Todd.
© Robert Workman
Download and listen to the radio adaptation of 'Breathing Country' at www.theatreofdebate.com
SMASHfestUK 2017 - Woolwich at General Gordon Square.
SMASHfestUK went on the second leg of our 'Earth and Sky' tour, heading out to General Gordon Square, in the heart of Woolwich. With sponsorship from the Royal Academy of Engineering and the UK Space Agency, and the support of Middlesex University, the University of Greenwich and lots of wonderful local schools, engineers, artists and scientists, volunteers and organisations, we built an outdoor festival with the Survival Village and Space Camp erupting out of the Supervolcano! Thank you to everyone who visited, participated and contributed. It was a blazingly bright, uplifting and AWESOME day!
Photographs by splento.com and Wyn Griffiths
Keiron Craven Grew as Simon and Karla Crome as Lizzie.
Breathing Country, written by Ben Musgrave, directed by Nigel Townsend, design by Jaimie Todd.
Photo © Robert Workman
Download and listen to the radio adaptation of 'Breathing Country' at www.theatreofdebate.com
Liz Jadav as Janet.
'Breathing Country' was written by Ben Musgrave, directed by Nigel Townsend and designed by Jaimie Todd.
© Robert Workman
Download and listen to the radio adaptation of 'Breathing Country' at www.theatreofdebate.com
SMASHfestUK 2017 - Woolwich at General Gordon Square.
SMASHfestUK went on the second leg of our 'Earth and Sky' tour, heading out to General Gordon Square, in the heart of Woolwich. With sponsorship from the Royal Academy of Engineering and the UK Space Agency, and the support of Middlesex University, the University of Greenwich and lots of wonderful local schools, engineers, artists and scientists, volunteers and organisations, we built an outdoor festival with the Survival Village and Space Camp erupting out of the Supervolcano! Thank you to everyone who visited, participated and contributed. It was a blazingly bright, uplifting and AWESOME day!
Photographs by splento.com and Wyn Griffiths
Jonathan Andrews as Richard and Liz Jadav as Janet.
'Breathing Country' was written by Ben Musgrave, directed by Nigel Townsend and designed by Jaimie Todd.
© Robert Workman
Download and listen to the radio adaptation of 'Breathing Country' at www.theatreofdebate.com
Simon Roberts as Richard and Karla Crome as Lizzie.
Breathing Country, written by Ben Musgrave, directed by Nigel Townsend, design by Jaimie Todd.
Photo © Robert Workman
Download and listen to the radio adaptation of 'Breathing Country' at www.theatreofdebate.com
Simon Roberts as Richard and Karla Crome as Lizzie.
Breathing Country, written by Ben Musgrave, directed by Nigel Townsend, design by Jaimie Todd.
Photo © Robert Workman
Download and listen to the radio adaptation of 'Breathing Country' at www.theatreofdebate.com
Karla Crome as Lizzie.
Breathing Country, written by Ben Musgrave, directed by Nigel Townsend, design by Jaimie Todd.
Photo © Robert Workman
Download and listen to the radio adaptation of 'Breathing Country' at www.theatreofdebate.com
Karla Crome as Lizzie.
Breathing Country, written by Ben Musgrave, directed by Nigel Townsend, design by Jaimie Todd.
Photo © Robert Workman
Download and listen to the radio adaptation of 'Breathing Country' at www.theatreofdebate.com
Keiron Craven Grew as Simon and Beth Mack as Lizzie.
'Breathing Country' was written by Ben Musgrave, directed by Nigel Townsend and designed by Jaimie Todd.
© Robert Workman
Download and listen to the radio adaptation of 'Breathing Country' at www.theatreofdebate.com
Debate Facilitator Philip Weddell.
'Breathing Country' was written by Ben Musgrave, directed by Nigel Townsend and designed by Jaimie Todd.
© Robert Workman
Download and listen to the radio adaptation of 'Breathing Country' at www.theatreofdebate.com
‘Climate Crisis - WILDFIRE!’ Programme co-design & co-production initiative.
A brilliant group of young people from Phoenix Community Housing, Lewisham Youth Theatre, Middlesex University and independent young creatives from Lewisham and Camden have worked with a range of technical experts, engineers, designers, creative technologists, producers, directors, writers and performers as a collaborative group developing the WILDFIRE! LiiVE Adventure for its debut at LYT on April 1st 2023.
The production is underpinned by current #ClimateScience, future wildfire risk crossing into urban areas & practical #FireSafety. We’ve been lucky to have fantastic expert advisors @roddiekeith Area Commander (Ret) @scottishfireandrescueservice Clmate Scientist - Wildfire - Prof Stefan Doerr Swansea University and Urban Water Management Prof Lian Lundy Middlesex University #CoDesign The overall project is a collaboration between Middlesex University MDXPD SMASH_UK (SMASHfestUK) Copper Candle Phoenix Community Housing Lewisham Youth Theatre funded by British Science Association #RoyalAcademyOfEngineering Royal Academy of Engineering with Wyn Griffiths as Project Lead.
Simon Roberts as Richard, Rebecca Thorn as Janet and Keiron Craven Grew as Simon.
Breathing Country, written by Ben Musgrave, directed by Nigel Townsend, design by Jaimie Todd.
Photo © Robert Workman
Download and listen to the radio adaptation of 'Breathing Country' at www.theatreofdebate.com
Beth Mack as Lizzie and Liz Jadav as Janet.
'Breathing Country' was written by Ben Musgrave, directed by Nigel Townsend and designed by Jaimie Todd.
© Robert Workman
Download and listen to the radio adaptation of 'Breathing Country' at www.theatreofdebate.com
Keiron Craven Grew as Simon and Karla Crome as Lizzie.
Breathing Country, written by Ben Musgrave, directed by Nigel Townsend, design by Jaimie Todd.
Photo © Robert Workman
Download and listen to the radio adaptation of 'Breathing Country' at www.theatreofdebate.com
Keiron Craven Grew as Simon and Karla Crome as Lizzie.
Breathing Country, written by Ben Musgrave, directed by Nigel Townsend, design by Jaimie Todd.
Photo © Robert Workman
Download and listen to the radio adaptation of 'Breathing Country' at www.theatreofdebate.com
Simon Roberts as Richard, Keiron Craven Grew as Simon and Karla Crome as Lizzie.
Breathing Country, written by Ben Musgrave, directed by Nigel Townsend, design by Jaimie Todd.
Photo © Robert Workman
Download and listen to the radio adaptation of 'Breathing Country' at www.theatreofdebate.com
Beth Mack as Lizzie.
'Breathing Country' was written by Ben Musgrave, directed by Nigel Townsend and designed by Jaimie Todd.
© Robert Workman
Download and listen to the radio adaptation of 'Breathing Country' at www.theatreofdebate.com
Beth Mack as Lizzie and Liz Jadav as Janet.
'Breathing Country' was written by Ben Musgrave, directed by Nigel Townsend and designed by Jaimie Todd.
© Robert Workman
Download and listen to the radio adaptation of 'Breathing Country' at www.theatreofdebate.com
Karla Crome as Lizzie and Rebecca Thorn as Janet.
Breathing Country, written by Ben Musgrave, directed by Nigel Townsend, design by Jaimie Todd.
Photo © Robert Workman
Download and listen to the radio adaptation of 'Breathing Country' at www.theatreofdebate.com
Simon Roberts as Richard and Karla Crome as Lizzie.
Breathing Country, written by Ben Musgrave, directed by Nigel Townsend, design by Jaimie Todd.
Photo © Robert Workman
Download and listen to the radio adaptation of 'Breathing Country' at www.theatreofdebate.com
Jonathan Andrews as Richard and Liz Jadav as Janet.
'Breathing Country' was written by Ben Musgrave, directed by Nigel Townsend and designed by Jaimie Todd.
© Robert Workman
Download and listen to the radio adaptation of 'Breathing Country' at www.theatreofdebate.com
Simon Roberts as Richard and Karla Crome as Lizzie.
Breathing Country, written by Ben Musgrave, directed by Nigel Townsend, design by Jaimie Todd.
Photo © Robert Workman
Download and listen to the radio adaptation of 'Breathing Country' at www.theatreofdebate.com
Karla Crome as Lizzie.
Breathing Country, written by Ben Musgrave, directed by Nigel Townsend, design by Jaimie Todd.
Photo © Robert Workman
Download and listen to the radio adaptation of 'Breathing Country' at www.theatreofdebate.com
Beth Mack as Lizzie and Liz Jadav as Janet.
'Breathing Country' was written by Ben Musgrave, directed by Nigel Townsend and designed by Jaimie Todd.
© Robert Workman
Download and listen to the radio adaptation of 'Breathing Country' at www.theatreofdebate.com
SMASHfestUK 2017 - Woolwich at General Gordon Square.
SMASHfestUK went on the second leg of our 'Earth and Sky' tour, heading out to General Gordon Square, in the heart of Woolwich. With sponsorship from the Royal Academy of Engineering and the UK Space Agency, and the support of Middlesex University, the University of Greenwich and lots of wonderful local schools, engineers, artists and scientists, volunteers and organisations, we built an outdoor festival with the Survival Village and Space Camp erupting out of the Supervolcano! Thank you to everyone who visited, participated and contributed. It was a blazingly bright, uplifting and AWESOME day!
Photographs by splento.com and Wyn Griffiths
Simon Roberts as Richard and Karla Crome as Lizzie.
Breathing Country, written by Ben Musgrave, directed by Nigel Townsend, design by Jaimie Todd.
Photo © Robert Workman
Download and listen to the radio adaptation of 'Breathing Country' at www.theatreofdebate.com
SMASHfestUK 2017 - Woolwich at General Gordon Square.
SMASHfestUK went on the second leg of our 'Earth and Sky' tour, heading out to General Gordon Square, in the heart of Woolwich. With sponsorship from the Royal Academy of Engineering and the UK Space Agency, and the support of Middlesex University, the University of Greenwich and lots of wonderful local schools, engineers, artists and scientists, volunteers and organisations, we built an outdoor festival with the Survival Village and Space Camp erupting out of the Supervolcano! Thank you to everyone who visited, participated and contributed. It was a blazingly bright, uplifting and AWESOME day!
Photographs by splento.com and Wyn Griffiths
Jonathan Andrews as Richard and Beth Mack as Lizzie.
'Breathing Country' was written by Ben Musgrave, directed by Nigel Townsend and designed by Jaimie Todd.
© Robert Workman
Download and listen to the radio adaptation of 'Breathing Country' at www.theatreofdebate.com