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Cherry Lee: Leadership, Lorries and Living Life Unapologetically
Cherry Lee has a shaved head, tattoos and piercings. She drives a lorry. She's the lead singer of an 80s/90s rock band called Thick Skinned. And she's one of the most thoughtful, strategic leaders…
Maxwell Rousell: Finding Your Niche - From Apprentice to Digital Champion
Maxwell Rousell is 20. He's a Digital and Social Inclusion Coordinator. And he's spent three and a half years finding out exactly where he belongs in the NHS. His job is to help patients navigate the…
Colin Dunkley: The Quiet Revolutionary - Epilepsy, Emotion and Working Upstream
In this episode, we meet Colin Dunkley, a paediatrician who specialises in epilepsy. Colin didn’t choose epilepsy because he loved it - he chose it because it was being done badly and families were…
Arron Smith: From RAF to the Recovery Room - Bringing Structure to Chaos
In this episode, we meet Arron Smith, Specialty General Manager for Theatres, Anaesthetics and Critical Care. Arron came to the NHS just over two years ago from the RAF - with zero clinical…
Sally Palmer: Many Hats, One Mission - Inside Infection Control
In this episode, we meet Sally Palmer, Nurse Consultant in Infection Prevention and Control. Most people never see what Sally does - and if she's doing it well, they never will. Because the best…
Growing Our Own: Apprentices, Confidence and Second Chances
As part of National Apprenticeship Week 2026, this special episode of Only Human After All explores how apprenticeships are transforming careers. We meet three apprentices at very different stages of…
From the Archives: Amanda Barrett - A Nurse's Journey from Bedside to Blueprint
In this episode of Only Human After All, we meet Amanda Barrett, a nurse by background who now leads major improvement projects across diagnostics. Amanda talks about her personal journey from ward…
Jo Freeman: Pharmacy, Purpose and Choosing to Stay
In this episode, we meet Jo Freeman, Assistant Chief Pharmacist at Sherwood Forest Hospitals for the past 12 years. When the chief pharmacist post came up, people kept asking why she wasn’t applying.…
Holiday Special: Andrea in the Guest Chair
Andrea finally sits in the guest chair — the second of our holiday specials where the hosts swap roles. James and Vicky ask about the patient whose husband she sat with all night, learning to…
Holiday Special: James in the Guest Chair
After dozens of interviews, co-host James Thomas finally takes his turn in the guest seat — the first of two holiday specials where the hosts swap roles. Andrea and Amanda ask about Lego obsessions,…
Rachel Gibbons: The Admin That Saved Lives
Rachel Gibbons works on reception in histopathology at Sherwood Forest Hospitals. She greets people with a smile, types reports and prepares MDT slides – but her knowledge gained from years in the…
Saroona Haroon: The Sherlock Holmes of the Slide
Dr Saroona Haroon is a histopathologist at Sherwood Forest Hospitals and a self-described "detective of the microscope." In this conversation, she reveals the world behind the biopsies – the careful…
Claire Etches: Teaching Doctors the Paediatric Way
Claire Etches has spent 20 years caring for sick children on Ward 25. Two years ago she did something pretty unusual – she started teaching medical students. Not nursing students. Medical…
Kate Wright: Celebrating Allied Health Professions, 14 Roles, 1 Purpose
In this special episode for Allied Health Professional Day, Andrea and James celebrate the extraordinary world of AHPs with Kate Wright, Chief Allied Health Professional at Sherwood Forest…
Zahid Noor: Grit, Gratitude and Belonging in the NHS
Respiratory physician and Associate Medical Director Dr Zahid Noor joins us to share a 35-year story of courage, grit and service — from arriving in the UK from Pakistan in 1989 to mentoring hundreds…
Tania Bacon: Paediatric Nursing, Side Quests and Pink Fluffy Care
Fifteen years into paediatric nursing, Tania Bacon is Deputy Ward Leader on Sherwood Forest’s Ward 25 and a driving force behind Greatex — positive incident reporting that captures what goes right so…
Brent Gillicker: From Submarines to Scrubs
Brent Gillicker is a registered Operating Department Practitioner who once served as a Royal Navy submariner. He talks about bringing submarine-honed resourcefulness into theatres, expanding the ODP…
Irvine Makani: Emergency Nursing via Aerospace Engineering
Irvine Makani’s story is one of transformation, resilience, and heart. Trained in aerospace engineering and once dreaming of becoming a pilot, Irvine’s life took an unexpected turn following personal…
Jodie Ward: Glitter, Grit and the Power of Play
Jodie Ward never planned to become a nurse. She joined the hospital as a hostess, delivering meals to patients — until one day, she overheard a nurse calming a distressed family and thought, “I want…
Neelakshi Armugam: Radiology, Representation and Really Good Cake
In this inspiring episode of Only Human After All, we meet Dr Neelakshi "Neela" Armugam – Radiology Registrar, newly appointed Chief Registrar and all-round warm and wise presence at Sherwood Forest…
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