From Risk to Relationship: Rewilding Healthcare Systems to Cultivate Collective Social Safety
Wednesday 27 May 2026, 11:00am to 12:00pm
Venue
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Event Details
This seminar explores how to “rewild” healthcare by placing relationship and relationality at the heart of system design.
Drawing on global innovations and lived experience, our guest speaker will use palliative care for people living with complex mental health conditions as an example of how to apply the concepts of collective social safety and positive risk-taking to close gaps in care. Participants are invited to rethink healthcare as an ecosystem where structures serve relationships, and to consider opportunities for building an evidence base that supports relational systems, enabling more inclusive and effective care at the end of life.
Speaker
Dr Sarah Yardley
Sarah's research focuses on reducing the gaps between rhetoric and reality, policy and practice, expectations and experience in healthcare. She is particularly interested in the need to redeem the role of relationship-centred practices in healthcare systems. Her recent Churchill Fellowship took her to the USA, Canada and Australia to learn about systematically improving healthcare for people living with severe mental illness who subsequently need palliative care for advanced incurable physical i
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