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Carol Pearson is a retired chartered accountant. When her full-time career was cut short by complications from severe endometriosis, she had to re-create herself and she now works as an audit chair for NHS Crawley Clinical Commissioning Group. Carol helps as a research assistant at Royal Surrey County Hospital, is a trustee for Endometriosis UK and co-leads endometriosis support groups in Brighton and Guildford. In 2013, Carol shared her story in a talk entitled ‘Rewriting Red Riding Hood’ at TEDxBrighton.

This is the second of our case studies showing the difference Wellbeing Our Way is making for some of the organisations involved in the programme. Here, Lee Marriott-Dowding reflects on how new opportunities for partnership working are supporting her to develop the James Whale Fund for Kidney Cancer’s approaches to working with people with long term health needs.

Lee Robinson is the Director of Bright Ideas Consulting, a consultancy providing innovative, evidence-based strategy, research and financial sustainability support for organisations with a social mission. Bright Ideas has recently been working with National Voices and the Wellbeing Our Way programme to develop the organisation’s approach to sector mapping and impact assessment.

Simply, sensibly, person-centredly brilliant

A fantastic thing has happened to me in the NHS over this last month.  It involves care planning and it goes like this. 

I have a 15 year old repetitive strain injury (RSI) which means it is painful to use computers and keyboards at times. As my work is office based, this has quite an impact on my life. I have been managing it OK-ish and have had support from several different physios and osteopaths at various times, with varying degrees of success. However, during a recent nasty flare up I was sent to meet Chris Williams, a physiotherapist at Sherwood Forest Hospitals. 

Chris was different to the other professionals.